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brother? On second though, those words are synonyms.
So how about bather?
botcher
new starter word is bother
grape
or grace, gravy, grate
graze - as opposed to a grave injury?
rave - instead of being gravely serious?
Nothing wrong with insanity. :-)
How about grove? I like the contrast between the place of death and the place of life.
Hmmm. Interesting. deadliness was what I had in mind, but headlines works just as well, if not better. I wasn't requiring antonyms, just that the two words be 'far apart' in meaning. This is obviously not a well-defined idea. Depending on your point of view, that makes things more interesting, by opening up the possibilities, or less so, because it might open up too many possibilities.
I'm going to add both headlines and deadliness. Let's try one more starter word.
grave
On edit; I think that what will make this list interesting is to find starter words that afford the greatest number of options.
Well, interesting to me, anyway. Other folks probably think I'm insane.
I can imagine deadlines being dreadlines, but I'll bet that's not what's wanted here.
deadliness?
Are word 1 and word 2 supposed to be antonyms of one another? Or just unreleated? If I'm understanding the rules right, I guess headlines...?
To make things interesting, I will start out by listing only one of the pair I have in mind, so that folks can guess the other. To be clear: "differing by one letter" means that word 1 can be changed to word 2 in one of three ways - adding a letter, deleting an existing letter, changing an existing letter. Swapping the position of two existing letters (e.g. CRAVE/CARVE) does not count.