Answer:
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
I can be swallowed But I can also swallow you.
I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
I am a ship that can be made to ride the greatest waves. I am not built by objects, but built by minds. What am I?
I go up and never come down no matter how hard you wish. As I get higher more wrinkles crawl onto your face.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.