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

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

Enter a word in the box below
Correctly named words will show up in the table below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Henry Fieldstone
You can enter either word, with or without the extra 'L'
Confused? This quiz is looking for you to guess which words are changed when an L is added...for example Bet (a Wager) becomes Belt (Pants accessory) when an L is added.

You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.

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Before Hint	Word	After Hint (+L)
Rotund		Planar
Marched in a line		No longer empty
Chosen		Drunk
Bloody		Very great praise
To unite		Tasteless
Hurting or to hurt		Ordinary
Unit of language		Earth
Solid water		Hair parasites
Wicked		Hair-free
Sprite		Justly
Gear		Jam up
Warble		Toss
Ice cream holder		Duplicate
Bag		Loose
Eyelid inflammation		Fashion
To get behind		Not white
Run aground		Make white
Additional amount		Edible fungus
Gesture of goodwill		Food taste
Compensated		Tartan pattern

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	MovieDynamic:	May 21st, 2009 at 08:24 GMT	10 points
	Very interesting, random idea.

	XYlophonetreeZ:	May 21st, 2009 at 08:26 GMT	33 points
	pickled?

	Ashgabat_Jones:	May 21st, 2009 at 08:38 GMT	10 points
	im gonna get so pickled this weekend. yeah ive never heard of that either

	IWANTMY2DOLLARS:	May 21st, 2009 at 08:43 GMT	12 points
	Great quiz - difficult, but a relatively true test of a person's vocabulary and word association abilities.

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	MRL:	May 21st, 2009 at 08:55 GMT	13 points
	@XYlophonetreeZ, matt: I've heard "pickled" as a synonym for drunk. It may be worth noting that it's not used by a person intending to get drunk -- it's used by someone commenting derogatorily on someone else.

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	MrEnglishman:	May 21st, 2009 at 09:17 GMT	7 points
	"Jam Up" had me totally bemused. Perhaps "Block" would be better. And "Make vocal music" rather than "Warble". I stuggled with "Hurting" as the resulting word didn't quite fit. Maybe "Symptom of injury"? Great quiz though - it had me scratching my head.

	Kicking222:	May 21st, 2009 at 09:26 GMT	3 points
	Looooooove this one. Great idea. I got 12, but I think I'd do better if it wasn't 1:30 in the morning.

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	ZeppoMarxist:	May 21st, 2009 at 09:51 GMT	3 points
	Wonderful quiz.

	Lulu:	May 21st, 2009 at 09:58 GMT	3 points
	For some reason I was expecting kit->kilt for the tartan pattern clue.

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	Bethannie:	May 21st, 2009 at 10:38 GMT	4 points
	Pickled is quite a common euphemism for drunk over here (UK, East Coast)....I managed to get that one, but missed a few of the more 'obvious' ones...good quiz.

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	micah:	May 21st, 2009 at 10:51 GMT	12 points
	Interesting, but some of the clues have part-of-speech problems: "hurting" isn't a good clue for "pain", and there's some inconsistency about verbs.

	Zalx:	May 21st, 2009 at 12:02 GMT	3 points
	Run Aground/Make White - I thought of 'Bank' and 'Blank' - once I had that there was no going back.

	BrettCaudill:	May 21st, 2009 at 12:14 GMT	6 points
	one of those quizzes that makes you go "oh yeah, duh!" as soon as your time runs out and the answers pop up.

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	HalfWelsh:	May 21st, 2009 at 15:20 GMT	18 points
	I wonder what "sporce" means then?!

	Stimulus:	May 21st, 2009 at 15:37 GMT	-1 points
	that was hard until you press give up

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	Catherine_F:	May 21st, 2009 at 17:12 GMT	3 points
	You can use practically any word in the past tense to mean drunk. I may never have actually said "pickled" but I can still conceive of it being said.

	Joe Pearson:	May 21st, 2009 at 17:14 GMT	5 points
	What's the problem with pickled? That's what my mother used to call someone who was drunk. Perhaps it is a little old-fashioned for the typical sporcle audience?

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	Ribhump:	May 21st, 2009 at 17:25 GMT	-3 points
	i think there's an interesting question about what a unit of language actually is or means. initially i was thinking in terms of letters, before moving onto words. You could also argue that syllables are the units of language as one of the main reasons apes can't speak is because they can only form one syllable noises (so can't join them together like humans to form multuiple syllable words) and therefore language is basically impossible for them. just a point of interest really.

	Sockmonkey:	May 21st, 2009 at 17:45 GMT	6 points
	I liked this one. it --- lit works for the third one.

	tcalleen:	May 21st, 2009 at 17:50 GMT	7 points
	I'm not in the UK, and I've heard pickled for drunk. I suspect that Joe Pearson has hit on something - familiarity with pickled may be more related to age than geography.

	zalagreensbury:	May 21st, 2009 at 19:14 GMT	3 points
	ugh! this is one of those quizzes that once you're almost forced to hit 'give up' and you see the answers you want to shoot yourself for being such a dumbbeep

	Sparky:	May 21st, 2009 at 19:20 GMT	1 point
	What tcalleen Said. I think so too - pickled is the sort of word my mum would use but I wouldn't. So, I recognise the word but I'm not sure how many of my contemporaries will have heard of it. Great idea for a quiz btw!

	aprilvirgo:	May 21st, 2009 at 19:56 GMT	-2 points
	Loved this quiz! It's rare that I do better than average on a quiz so to get 17 was awesome. Of course, as soon as the answers popped up I was amazed at how dumb I was not to get the 3 I missed. I agree with the idea that 'pickled' is an older term, I've only heard it from older relatives and in books.

	weizenugb:	May 21st, 2009 at 21:19 GMT	5 points
	@Soluie: I'm also from Boston. "Wicked" doesn't mean "good" to New Englanders, it means "very" or "really." Think of how it's used: "That's wicked funny." Nobody in New England really says "Oh that's wicked." That's more of a British thing.

	mjenks:	May 21st, 2009 at 21:34 GMT	-4 points
	Wouldn't "It/Lit" work for "chosen -> drunk"?

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	dan snyder:	May 21st, 2009 at 21:58 GMT	1 point
	at stimulus, youre completely right, i got like 4, but when i saw the answers, i was like,i learned these words in like 4th grade

	milkmeister:	May 21st, 2009 at 23:16 GMT	0 points
	@MattJ: I can just about see what you mean, as in "you're it", meaning "you're chosen". It's quite tenuous though.

	MissInformed:	May 21st, 2009 at 23:57 GMT	3 points
	Another minute would have been good...

	mjenks:	May 22nd, 2009 at 00:11 GMT	2 points
	@ milkmeister: I wasn't suggesting that "It/Lit" should be accepted, I was just saying that it would work. And, yeah, that was my thought with "Did they make the choice yet?" "Yeah, you're it."

	GeoExpert:	May 22nd, 2009 at 00:28 GMT	2 points
	I'm confused. The hints made me overthink :(