ANAGRAMS Close your eyes and take a deep

ANAGRAMS Close your eyes and take a deep breath five times. Now think of any four letter word and then rearrange all the letters of the same word to form a new word. Make it a point that you have to use all the original letters exactly once. For example : Binary –Brainy Therefore re-arranging the letters/words of another word/phrase are called ‘Anagrams. ’ Confidential © 2020, MEM

EXPLANATION: Two friends, Duke and Danny, opened a detective agency. One day, they found a parcel in their mailbox to be delivered somewhere. The delivery address on the parcel appeared strange to them. Perhaps it was an anagram. Both of them tried to solve it, but were able to solve only a part of it. It starts as Dirty. . . Look at the following anagram and try to locate the delivery address: DORMITORY ___________

DEFINITION: An anagram is a word or phrase formed by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase. For example : cat – act read – dear read – beard Let us look into some popular phrases. Read them for fun. Eleven plus two –Twelve plus one Goodbye – Obey God

Now let us watch an extremely interesting P. P. T. to have clearer vision.

Anagrams Do you know what an anagram is ? Here is an example ! If we take the letters of the words EACH, and rearrange them, we get the word ACHE. The word ACHE then is the anagram of EACH. So, an anagram is a new word made by rearranging the letters from word before without adding or reducing the number of the letters. Confidential © 2020, MEM

Now , it’s your turn to solve some simple problems. In each case the first clue stands for the first word, and the second clue stands for the anagram of the word. Example: A. The synonym of a story. TALE B. It means not on time. LATE Confidential © 2020, MEM

1. a. b. It likes to hunt mice -CAT It means to do or to perform – ACT 2. a. b. Animal used for riding -HORSE Land near the sea -SHORE 3. a. b. It is a kind of drink -TEA We do it when we are hungry -EAT

4. a. The opposite of high -LOW b. Kind of bird -OWL 5. a. Used to plant a flower -POT b The synonym of peak – TOP 6. a. Holder for keeping documents – FILE b. The opposite of dead -LIFE

7. a. Someone who leads others - LEADER b. The synonym of trader – DEALER 8. a. Bird’s mouth – BEAK b. Put a cake in an oven – BAKE 9. a. The opposite of here – THERE b. After two - THREE