One of my dearest friends gave me a real, non-digital, honest to goodness tear-away calendar with daily brain puzzles, and I'll post them here, with the answers.  If I forget, please come after me with pitchforks and torches.  Credit to The Mensa Puzzle Calendar from pageaday.com

January 1, 2017:

In honor of New Year's, here are eight words that mean "begin."  However, all the vowels have been removed from each word.  For example, "begin" would appear as BGN.  Can you read them all?

STRT

LNCH

MBRK

PN

STBLSH

CTVT

NTRDC

NTT


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Answers:

START
LAUNCH
EMBARK
OPEN
ESTABLISH
ACTIVATE
INTRODUCE
INITIATE