Can you name the words described below by adding an 'E'?

created by Svestus

Enter a word in the box below
Correctly named words will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Confused? This quiz is looking for you to guess which words are changed when an E is added...for example Rad (Totally awesome dude!) becomes Read (To Peruse) when an E is added.
You can enter either word, with or without the extra 'E'
Also try: Add an 'F'

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Before Hint	Answer	After Hint (+E)
A short conversation		What not to do on a test
A bush or a fern		Mars or Neptune
To discover		A wicked entity
History		Glue
An adult male deer		According to Shakespeare, all the world
Duct		A planned occasion
To measure		To take forcibly
A group sharing common interests or characteristics		Unadulterated
Daddy, papa, padre...		Key ingredient in comfortable pillows
To start		One's sense of self
Pull with effort		A Winter Olympic sport
The front of the lower leg		To be radiant
To study at the last minute (slang)		1960s British blues-rock band...or a dairy product
A fruit or a Professor		A long or conspicuous feather
To prohibit legally		A source of harm
A home for lions or thieves		Former residence of Adam and Eve
Young boy		Metal used as shielding from radiation
Gruff, rude, or ill-tempered		____ you can't be serious!
A long long way to run		An emotional response to a perceived threat
A portable container		To quit

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	ostroffj:	May 28th, 2010 at 19:03 GMT		5 points
	Cute answers, but there are more style errors than I'd expect in a published quiz. FATHERLESS and FEATHERLESS are adjectives but are clued as nouns.

	caramba:	May 28th, 2010 at 19:05 GMT		3 points
	@svestus: Congratulations on your first published quiz! Featherless and fatherless are great!

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	Winternoise:	May 28th, 2010 at 19:11 GMT		44 points
	I don't know about anyone else, but as soon as I saw "duct" I wrote "tape"...

	BonnieH:	May 28th, 2010 at 19:12 GMT		62 points
	Please tell me I'm not the only one who typed in Shirley instead of Surely and couldn't figure out why it didn't work? "I am serious. And stop calling me Shirley!" :)

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	leppyfresh:	May 28th, 2010 at 19:17 GMT		3 points
	Pretty good quiz.

	Poque:	May 28th, 2010 at 19:18 GMT		53 points
	I kept reading "A source of harm" as "A source of ham" and ran out of synonyms for pigs VERY quickly.

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	ZapRowsdower:	May 28th, 2010 at 19:34 GMT		3 points
	"Ban" doesn't mean "to put a stop to". The US gov't banned weed-smoking, but they certainly didn't put a stop to it.

	mtlynch13:	May 28th, 2010 at 19:42 GMT		4 points
	im pretty sure an adult male deer is a buck

	chikka2:	May 28th, 2010 at 20:04 GMT		7 points
	@mtlynch13: and you'd be right; however, there are other synonyms for male deer. Great first quiz, congrats!

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	moran:	May 28th, 2010 at 20:38 GMT		15 points
	@mdiamon6: see Do-Re-Mi

	WyvernSabres:	May 28th, 2010 at 20:49 GMT		11 points
	"You can't be serious", and I could only think of John McEnroe...

	Penny:	May 28th, 2010 at 21:19 GMT		8 points
	American deer hunters seem to talk about bucks, not stags. It's a perfectly good word, but perhaps it has more currency in the U.K. The main American usage seems to be to mean "without a date" or "all male," as in stag party or to go stag, and those sound kind of dated, even -- I think bachelor party is more what people say these days. (Sorry for the digression; I'm always interested in pondering word usage...) For the "long long way to run" clue I typed in "fa" and it took me a long pause to figure out you wanted the "r" on that.

	Lyn_Marie:	May 28th, 2010 at 22:00 GMT		1 point
	@WyvernSabres: After making the mistake that BonnieH and others made, I tried to think if McEnroe preceded "You can't be serious" with an additional word. He probably did, but nothing that can be used on Sporcle or said TV and was always bleeped. "F#$%! You can't be serious!!" Doesn't work for the quiz, either (no E,) but it does kinda go with "gruff, rude, or ill-tempered."

	ostroffj:	May 28th, 2010 at 22:09 GMT		2 points
	I thought "____ you can't be serious!" was "Choose any car in the aisle?!", but I guess that doesn't work without an E. Also, hooray for edits addressing my previous comment.

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	holey101:	May 28th, 2010 at 23:24 GMT		11 points
	I might be wrong but a clan generally has some past relation between members

	gopaladins:	May 28th, 2010 at 23:24 GMT		4 points
	i think of "lug" as meaning "to carry with effort," not "to pull with effort."

	steviejean:	May 29th, 2010 at 01:05 GMT		0 points
	good quiz! not too hard for the end of the day, but enough to get my gears turning.

	ktappe:	May 29th, 2010 at 01:10 GMT		9 points
	Good puzzle, but case & cease both have bad clues. A case is not at all necessarily portable (eg. a bookcase). And cease is more to stop or end, not quit. Granted, you perhaps wanted to be obtuse to keep people from getting 100%, but I fear you sacrificed accuracy.

	Linz:	May 29th, 2010 at 02:32 GMT		2 points
	clever puzzle, and I liked the Sound of Music clue for far.

	Svestus:	May 29th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT		3 points
	A bit bummed that a few of my favorite clues were changed (it was originally fatherless==>featherless), but I am super excited to have my first published quiz! Thanks Sporcle!

	gotplaid:	May 29th, 2010 at 05:12 GMT		8 points
	"A portable container"... Tupperware.

	kypzethdurron:	May 29th, 2010 at 10:18 GMT		-4 points
	When I think of "boy" I think younger than "lad" - I generally associate "lad" with teenage years and have never heard a 3-year-old called one, even though they're often called "boy" so couldn't figure that clue. Is it just me or is the trend reversed elsewhere in the world?

	zeppelinoid:	May 29th, 2010 at 11:23 GMT		6 points
	Excellent quiz. A shame about the demise of fatherless/featherless. My main criticism relates to the descriptions for clan/clean which are slightly skewed. (This might be due to different US/UK usage). Clan is a familial or tribal term and unadulterated is pure. I am surprised that the term stag for male deer has fallen out of common usage in the US. In the UK is is still ther term for all male pre-marriage parties, we do not use the term Bachelor Party.

	melissa:	May 29th, 2010 at 13:07 GMT		10 points
	Great quiz. This might be a bit of a stretch, but for To prohibit legally / A source of harm, would you consider bar > bear? If I ran into the latter in the wilderness, I'm pretty sure I'd think "yikes - that looks like a source of harm!"

	CorneliusTree:	May 29th, 2010 at 16:24 GMT		8 points
	I always thought of a clan as more of a familial group than a group with common interests.

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	disseminator:	May 30th, 2010 at 14:10 GMT		1 point
	Scram and Scream?

	JaxBored:	May 31st, 2010 at 03:29 GMT		1 point
	For Go, I think the clue should involve motion, like 'to start moving.' The current clue makes it seem like 'begin' or 'commence.'

	Asdfaeou:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 13:49 GMT		-3 points
	A long long way to run is "Fa" not "Far." You can check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfège is you don't believe me. If you just don't like wikipedia, it names several reputable sources on the bottom of the page naming it as "Fa" not "Far." Excellent quiz regardless.

	atoratzy:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 15:21 GMT		-2 points
	agreed; that's a terrible clue for "far" Good clue for "fa", but not for "far"

	ezazahaz:	Jun 2nd, 2010 at 05:10 GMT		3 points
	@Asdfqeou: A link on the very page you mentioned is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-Re-Mi, which explains the Fa/Far issue. It's called a pun; the reference is meant to be funny.