Gladiatorial
These brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
These words belong to the same logical family:
UNDECEIVABLE
SIMULTANEOUS
ALIMENTATION
CAUTIOUSNESS
GLADIATORIAL
FORAMINIFERA
Which one of these belongs too? Why?
PHILANTHROPY
SEISMOLOGIST
ONOMATOPOEIA
REAPPEARANCE
UNDECEIVABLE
SIMULTANEOUS
ALIMENTATION
CAUTIOUSNESS
GLADIATORIAL
FORAMINIFERA
Which one of these belongs too? Why?
PHILANTHROPY
SEISMOLOGIST
ONOMATOPOEIA
REAPPEARANCE
Comments
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Posted by Mogmatt16 on Apr 15, 2002 OR they all have a suffix or perfix |
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Posted by comet16 on Apr 15, 2002 foraminifera does not have a prefix or suffix; I check my teasers |
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Posted by Mogmatt16 on Apr 23, 2002 i thought -ifira was a suffix |
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Posted by bluetwo on Jun 04, 2002 Just because you can break down a word into it's roots (ie, foramen- and -fera) does not make them suffixes. By letter of grammatical law, "An affix added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending, such as -ness in gentleness." This was a good puzzle! |
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Posted by Glenbo on Nov 19, 2002 I thought it was even simpler... They all have the same amount of letters. |
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Posted by smarty_blondy on Sep 13, 2005 My brain hurts from this one, but i learned a few new words. Keep them coming.   |
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Posted by insane_21_gr on Jan 12, 2006 also the other three are all greek words! |
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Posted by dshebo on Jun 15, 2007 Got it right, but I was thinking about the suffix/prefix thing too.  Guess you're right about foraminifera though.  Great Teaser! |
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