Unusual Word Puzzles

Jigsaw word puzzle is a game where a number of words are broken into fragments with each fragment containing a number of letters. The fragments are then mixed up and put into a pile. The objective of the game is to recreate the original words by identifying and connecting the corresponding fragments.This puzzle book uses "unusual words". They range from 10 to 14 letters in length and are fragmented into 4-3-3-4 letter pieces. Each puzzle has six words and the meanings of the words are...
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Jigsaw word puzzle is a game where a number of words are broken into fragments with each fragment containing a number of letters. The fragments are then mixed up and put into a pile. The objective of the game is to recreate the original words by identifying and connecting the corresponding fragments.This puzzle book uses "unusual words". They range from 10 to 14 letters in length and are fragmented into 4-3-3-4 letter pieces. Each puzzle has six words and the meanings of the words are provided as clues.Unusual words are words that we don't see or use everyday. For example, we would more likely say "he is a scholar of the process of aging" then "he is a gerontologist", or "she is afraid of walking" then "she has ambulophobia". According to Phrontistery.info, there are in excess of 15,000 such unusual words in the English language.Unusual words tend to be long and typically are made up of a number of distinctive parts. For example, geocentrism's is the belief that the earth is the center of the universe. If we look at this word in its three parts, geo-centr-ism, the meaning of the word becomes obvious. This particular characteristic makes unusual words ideal for jigsaw word puzzles.