Hint
Find anagrams of the words in this order: PLEASE, TRANCE, LISTEN, WARNED, VEINED, BRUISE.
Answer
ANSWER.
Reasoning
The initial letters are RWASEN, which is an anagram of ANSWER. bruise becomes rubieswarned becomes wander (or warden)please becomes asleeplisten becomes silentveined becomes envied (or endive)trance becomes nectar
The word DEBATE can also be made, but this requires an obscure anagram.
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Puzzle 8
My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed a fault, I did a listing of miles from England to particular countries and here is the result:
Austria 1,800 miles
New Zealand 2,400 miles
Japan 1,200 miles
Brazil 1,400 miles