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Find words that form other words when both -r (or -er) and -st (or -est) are added, e.g.

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Problem

Find words that form other words when both -r (or -er) and -st (or
-est) are added, e.g. dive - diver - divest.
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dive - diver - divest
conge - conger - congest
head - header - headrest (just kidding)

and a couple others that are just -er + -est:

conquer - conquest
infer - infest

-- Dave Mallick <DMALLICK@middlebury.edu>