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Palindromes

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of symbols or elements, who’s meaning is the same either forward or backwards. E.g. tattarrattat – the longest palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door
What are these palindrome answers?

1 An exercise in which one pulls oneself up by the arms Pull-up or pullup
2 A type of machine for breaking up soil (trademark) Rotavator
3 To cover again with paper Repaper
4 Someone or something that revives or restores Reviver
5 A thing that rotates Rotator
6 An old-fashioned British word for good-bye Pip-pip
7 More red Redder
8 A disapproving sound Tut-tut
9 Relating to a city Civic
10 A light Inuit canoe Kayak
11 A polite form of address for a woman Madam
12 A method of detecting objects using radio waves Radar
13 Long narrative stories Sagas
14 A belief or principle Tenet
15 A breast Boob
16 Midday Noon
17 A raised deck at the stern of a ship Poop
18 The sound made by a horn Toot
19 To float on the surface of water Bob
20 The usual organ of sight Eye

 

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