Synopses & Reviews
Oxford Word Challenge is desgiend both to entertain and to expand your wordpower. Pit your wits against expert wordsmith and puzzle creator Tony Augarde, and see if you can solve over 100 of his quizzes and puzzles. The book has three levels:
The fairly easy questions:
This first section allows you to enjoy some comparatively easy questions: Which two rhyming words could mean "an amusing rabbit"? Can you name a dozen trees starting with S?
The fairly difficult questions:
When you've warmed up, these questions will test you further: Which word means to open and to shut? Which actor has genuine class?
The fiendish questions:
Finally, you can take on the challenge of the fiendishly difficult problems: Which words have all the vowels in order? What is a boomslang, a demirep, a qualtagh, or a zugzswang?
The answers:
An answers section at the back of the book not only gives solutions, but also adds relevant background information wherever possible, including word origins and interesting stories about how words are used.
Synopsis
Oxford Word Challenge is an enjoyable and stimulating mixture of entertainment and educative material, consisting of quizzes and puzzles for the reader to solve. Tony Augarde has created a wide variety of different word challenges for readers to try, including anagrams, acronyms, cryptic crossword clues, doublets, kangaroo words, palindromes, and spoonerisms.
The first section allows readers to enjoy some comparatively easy questions, such as "Can you name a dozen trees starting with S?" Once you've warmed up, the difficulty increases, until ultimately, you can take on the challenge of fiendishly difficult problems like "Which words have all the vowels in order?"
An answers section at the back of the book not only gives solutions, but also adds relevant background information wherever possible, including word origins and interesting stories about how words are used. Whether you're a veteran of word games or a novice with a desire to test your wits, this is a book that will give you hours of intellectual entertainment.
About the Author
Tony Augarde is also the author of
The Oxford A-Z of Word Games and
The Oxford Guide to Word Games. He presents a fortnightly Word Quiz on
Talk Radio, and writes a monthly Wordplay column in the
Oxford Times.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Part One: Fairly Easy; Interlude; Part Two: Fairly Difficult; Interlude; Part Three: Fiendish; Answers