Silent E - A to Z

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Neptune

 

[SaxonJackson]

Opulence

 

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Pensive

 

[SaxonJackson]

Quarantine

 

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Reactive

 

[SaxonJackson]

Sensitive

 

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Tackle

 

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Urethane

 

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Vaccine

 

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Wave

 

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Skipping X and Y, I'll go with Zone for the letter Z........

 

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Armistice

 

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Bone

 

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Carve

 

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Dare

 

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Excite

 

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Facile

 

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Grace

 

[Blossom]

Hide

 

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Ike

Why is Dwight Eisenhower nicknamed "Ike"?

Answer (1 of 5): All the boys in the family were nicknamed Ike, a one-syllable contraction of Eisenhower. Multi-syllabic names were commonly abbreviated to one. e.g., Kuznkowski to “Ski”, Everingham to “Ham”, and any Irishman was automatically “Mick”. The Eisenhower boys were differentiated by t...

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