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Word Association
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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
In each of the following, choose a word which you think will best match the rest.
(a) AGE, DATE, KIND, FULLY, POWER
Choose from:
RAP, STRUT, BULLY, HOOD, CRIME, YEAR
(b) HINT, DIRT, COSY, FORT
Choose from:
KNOT, PART, EPIC, ROUT, NAVY
(c) MANOEUVRING, CAULIFLOWER, ACCENTUATION, BEHAVIOURISM, GREGARIOUS
Choose from:
MANUSCRIPT, CAUTIONED, MATRICULATION, OBSTREPEROUS, REORIENTATION
(a) AGE, DATE, KIND, FULLY, POWER
Choose from:
RAP, STRUT, BULLY, HOOD, CRIME, YEAR
(b) HINT, DIRT, COSY, FORT
Choose from:
KNOT, PART, EPIC, ROUT, NAVY
(c) MANOEUVRING, CAULIFLOWER, ACCENTUATION, BEHAVIOURISM, GREGARIOUS
Choose from:
MANUSCRIPT, CAUTIONED, MATRICULATION, OBSTREPEROUS, REORIENTATION
Hint
(a) a race(b) orderly
(c) all have something
Answer
(a) HOOD - each word can be prefixed by the word 'man' to form another word.(b) KNOT - all the words have their letters in alphabetical order.
(c) CAUTIONED - all the words contain all five vowels
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Alas, my score was 0. Fun, ingenious, and interesting, though.
I got the last one.. the vowels! But I needed the hint! The first two.. beyond me!
i got 1st and last. I don't understand the hint for the first one though. what does a race have to do with it?
Intstruction and hints left alot to be desired.
When asked about ability to think outside the box GumEbears says, "What box?" = good teaser btw human race
Too esoteric for me.
Not my thing, I didn't have a clue.
I think"MANOEUVRING" is spelled wrong but other than that, clever!
manoeuvering-Chiefly British maneuvering
I agree with Auntiesis, not my thing, but it was interesting and I had fun trying. Thanks for posting.
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