Word Wonder - Textbook

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Chapter: 01. The Cabuliwallah

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Word Wonder: Anagrams for Self-Learning

Have you ever noticed how some words look like they’re playing dress-up with letters? That’s exactly what an anagram is! It’s like taking all the letters from one word, scrambling them up, and then rearranging them to make a completely new word. It’s a fun word puzzle that helps you think about letters and words in a new way.

Here’s how it works:

Same Letters, Different Order: The key rule for an anagram is that you use exactly the same letters from the original word, and you use them all. You don’t add any new letters, and you don’t leave any out.

Example: If you have the word LISTEN, you can use the letters L, I, S, T, E, N to make the word SILENT. See? All the same letters, just rearranged!

Meaning Doesn’t Matter (Usually): The new word you create doesn’t have to be related in meaning to the original word. In fact, it’s often more surprising when they’re completely different!

Example: ROOM becomes MOOR. They have very different meanings.

Why are Anagrams fun and useful?

Boost Vocabulary: You become more aware of letter combinations and might discover new words.

Improve Spelling: Knowing that words can be rearranged helps reinforce letter recognition and patterns.

Sharpens Critical Thinking: It’s a mini-puzzle that challenges your brain to see connections and possibilities.

Great for Games: Anagrams are often used in word games and riddles.

So, when you see words like LISTEN and SILENT, or ROOM and MOOR, think of them as word twins that just decided to wear their letters in a different order!

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Look at these words.

listen silent

room moor

peals leaps

What do the words LISTEN and SILENT have in common? What about ROOM and MOOR; PEALS and LEAPS?

The words in each pair (LISTEN and SILENT; ROOM and MOOR; PEALS and LEAPS) have the exact same letters, but the letters are arranged in a different order to form new words. They are anagrams of each other.

An anagram is a word that is made by arranging the letters of another word in a different order.

Match these words to their anagrams.

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plum - d. lump

verses - a. serves

viewer - e. review

fried - b. fired

marcher - c. charmer

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