| Omission of syllables in speech |
ELISION |
| One who copies |
IMITATOR |
| Period of learning trade |
APPRENTICESHIP |
| Point out |
INDICATE |
| Portable computer |
LAPTOP |
| Practising (a play) |
REHEARSING |
| Provide food |
CATER |
| Reduction in price |
MARKDOWN |
| Refusal |
KNOCKBACK |
| Robbery (mainly US) |
HEIST |
| Rugby formation |
SCRUMMAGE |
| Send out; motor boat |
LAUNCH |
| Short poem |
RHYME |
| Short-handled reaping tool |
SICKLE |
| Showing creativity |
IMAGINATIVE |
| Sicilian volcano |
ETNA |
| Small stem of leaves or flowers |
SPRIG |
| Something deserving censure |
DEMERIT |
| Spanish hero |
ELCID |
| Starting point |
ORIGIN |
| Strict teacher |
PEDAGOGUE |
| Swiss-born artist known for elongated bronze figures |
GIACOMETTI |
| Take (someone) off |
MIMIC |
| To which (archaic) |
WHERETO |
| Treatise; area of land |
TRACT |
| Tried to achieve too much (oneself) |
OVERREACHED |
| Waste; very bad (colloq.) |
RUBBISH |
| Where Prince Charles was invested as Prince of Wales |
CAERNARVONCASTLE |
| Widespread disease |
EPIDEMIC |
| With decreasing loudness (mus.) |
DECRESCENDO |
| Young child |
TODDLER |
