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What is the next word in the following series of words? Choose from the pool.
Series: hope, heavy, livid, beast, brag, coat, nest, odor, fort, never, ?
Pool: nasty, nexus, night, nomad, nudge
Series: hope, heavy, livid, beast, brag, coat, nest, odor, fort, never, ?
Pool: nasty, nexus, night, nomad, nudge
Answer
Each word, when its last three letters are removed, becomes the chemical symbol for each of the first eleven elements of the Periodic Table, in atomic number order.H ope (hydrogen)
He avy (helium)
Li vid (lithium)
Be ast (beryllium)
B rag (boron)
C oat (carbon)
N est (nitrogen)
O dor (oxygen)
F ort (fluorine)
Ne ver (neon)
thus
Na sty (sodium)
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