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 The shrinking word
There is one nine-letter word in the English language that, if you were to remove a letter from it, it would still remain a word…all the way down to one letter. Can you identify the word, and each of the words it will become after removing each letter?
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The word is an adjective, meaning to cause momentary fright, surprise or astonishment.
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The word is: startling. Now see if you can reduce it to one letter, removing one letter at a time yet keeping it a word.
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Startling.
Starting.
Staring.
String.
Sting.
Sing.
Sin.
In.
I.
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