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Find a seven-letter sequence to fill in each of the three empty spaces and form a meaningful sentence.
The ★★★★★★★ surgeon was ★★★ ★★★★ to operate, because there was ★★ ★★★★★.
The sequence is NOTABLE:
The NOTABLE surgeon was NOT ABLE to operate, because there was NO TABLE.
There is a property that applies to all words in the first list and to none in the words in the second list. What is it?
The words in the first list are called “Abecederian”, i.e. their letters are in alphabetical order.
Can you recognize the four words below?
If you rotate the screen by 90°, you will read vertically:
Add the same sequence of three letters both before and after “ERGRO” in order to form an existing English word.
Add the letters U-N-D to get UNDERGROUND.
Can you figure out what story the following sequence of statements is telling?
11 is a racehorse. 12 is one (1) too (2). 11 won (1) one (1) race. 12 won (1) one (1) too (2).
Examine the 12 words below and determine what popular proverb is represented by them.
| mimic | iris | picnic |
| pilgrim | love | giving |
| love | rigid | icing |
| spirit | vigil | crisis |
The answer is LOVE IS BLIND.
All the words in the table have 2 “eyes” (i’s), except for the word “love”.
A cardinal points and says, “thorn, shout, seat, and stew.” Can you explain?
The sentence is a play on words and anagrams. Thorn, shout, seat, and stew are anagrams of the four cardinal directions of the compass: north, south, east, and west.
What unique feature do the following words share?
FRIEND, FEAST, THERE, THOROUGH, FLIGHT, WONDERFUL, RESIGN, ENDURING, PEST, COVERT
Each of these words contains its antonym as a sub-word:
FRIEND – FIEND, FEAST – FAST, THERE – HERE, THOROUGH – ROUGH, FLIGHT – FIGHT, WONDERFUL – WOEFUL, RESIGN – REIGN, ENDURING – ENDING, PEST – PET, COVERT – OVERT
You have two groups of words:
To which group does “repetitive” belong?
The first group contains self-explanatory words (known as autologicals), the second group does not. Therefore “repetitive” should belong to the first group.
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