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The Roolz are:

You may
1) add a letter OR
2) remove a letter OR
3) change a letter

AND THEN
4) scramble the new set of letters into a new word.

Thus:
MALAISE
drop the E
MISSAL

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Thus:
MALAISE
drop the E
MISSAL


bzzzz!
where'd that second 's' come from? (or, that's two changes!)

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Quite right. Sorry 'bout that. Couldn't see straight; too much snow. Will the Chair permit me to amend the motion?

MALAISE
drop an A
MESIAL (at least, that's what my dentist says)

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

MESIAL (at least, that's what my dentist says)


I --> M

LEMMAS

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Add --> A

MELASMA

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Change A to I and you can sing it:

MELISMA

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Really a song I do not know? Melisma?

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Melisma is a musical term for singing many notes on one syllable. An example would be chant or "Amen".

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MELISMA - think of the word "purify" in "And He Shall Purify" from Handel's Messiah, or the word "born" from "For Unto Us a Child is Born," or "easy" in "His Yoke is Easy," or "turned" from "All We, Like Sheep."

MELISMA
change an M to an R and get
REALISM

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Never knew this music term existed. Looked up the Dutch word.
Quite SIMULAR (E change to U); melisme. (from Greek)

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