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Rank | Letters | Answer | Clue | |
1 | 99% | 5 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 30% | 11 | Relating to a custom or practice of a brother-in-law marrying the widow of his deceased brother | |
3 | 30% | 6 | A person who is a brother or brother-in-law of one's parent | |
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We think the answer is "OLDER" which means:
- adjective satellite
- • Advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
- • Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
- • Skilled through long experience adjective
- • Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
- • Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
- • Having existed or lived for the specified time.
- • (heading) of an earlier time.
- • Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
- • Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- • A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
- • Excessive, abundant.
An example sentence would be:
- • "She has an older brother."
- • "My grandmother is getting older."
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