Word Riddles

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• What word becomes a different word meaning “more short” when two letters are added to it?
• Which word is pronounced almost the same even after four of its five letters are removed?
• What word is said to contain all 26 letters, even though it has far fewer than 26 characters?
• Which word contains three consecutive pairs of double letters?
• The word [____], meaning a flat dish, becomes “late” when its first letter is removed.
• The word [____] can mean both a financial institution and the edge of a river.
• In the riddle “What has an eye but cannot see?”, the intended answer is [____].
• The word [____] is pronounced like “night” but refers to a medieval warrior.