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I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. Who am I?

When I get multiplied by any number the sum of the figures in the product is always me. Who I am?
9 e.g. 9 X 6 = 54; 5 + 4= 9

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

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