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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.Group
Which two words below must be swapped in order to arrange the two groups such that each group of words shares a common characteristic, and the linking characteristic for Group A is the opposite of the linking characteristic for Group B?
Group A:
flash
call
potato
spring
Group B:
cuts
chocolate
sweat
comfort
Group A:
flash
call
potato
spring
Group B:
cuts
chocolate
sweat
comfort
Answer
The two words that must be swapped are "call" and "chocolate".The words in Group A form collocations with the word "hot", and the words in Group B form collocations with the word "cold" (which is the opposite of "hot"), as follows:
Group A:
flash ==> hot flash
chocolate ==> hot chocolate
potato ==> hot potato
spring ==> hot spring
Group B:
cuts ==> cold cuts
call ==> cold call
sweat ==> cold sweat
comfort ==> cold comfort
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