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I am a certain five-letter word and become shorter when you add two letters to me. What am I?
Iām grown from darkness but shine with a pale light. Very round I am and always a lady's delight.
Four fingers and a thumb, yet flesh and blood I have none. What am I?
Without a bridle, or a saddle, across a thing I ride a-straddle. And those I ride, by help of me, though almost blind, are made to see. What am I?
A large oasis in the desert. Come with cash and leave with none.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?