What goes up but never comes down?

What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

Which five letter word can be added at the end of below word to form a
valid word?

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I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?

If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909,
how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written?

Which English verb becomes past tense just by rearranging the letters?

f you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

Let's play a word game. Following are some meaningless words that can be completed by adding random letters on either side of the word.

For example, the word "rdo" can be formed into "pardon".

Using the same technique, can you complete the given words?
ecalc
airb
rinci
tibac
uidel
gorit
igna
eyho

The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. Can you tell what it is?

A bus driver was heading down a street in Mexico. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?