Morphic Verbal Associations

Introduction

For each item, identify and explain the commonality shared by the elements. Though vague or superficial answers may exist, your task is to find a precise underlying rule.

Example: unknown, illness, empress, abscond, offhand

Statements such as "All words have 7 letters" or "All words start with a vowel" are indeed true, but the similarity they describe is incidental.

Solution: All words follow the same pattern of vowel-consonant alternation: VCCCVCC.

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Test items

(1) cue, queue, Q
(2) committee, Mississippi, bookkeeper
(3) listen, silent, enlist
(4) racecar, level, stats
(5) nevertheless, grandfatherhood, counterclockwise
(6) stressed, reward, gateman
(7) postpone, honest, pioneer, 1
(8) EXHALE, LIVE, LAMENT, KIWI, FIZZY
(9) combat, rating, coward, scatter, dogmatic, epigram
(10) subdermatoglyphic, isogram
(11) ward, math, noon
(12) evil, heart, smile, range
(13) facetious, education, Sequoia
(14) handouts, there, net
(15) new send, riff, mono, sun, thurst, set sue, art us
(16) z, e, r, o, n, t, w, h, f, u, i, v, s, x, g, l, y, d, a, m, b, q, p, c
(17) noise, market, feeling, bellied, handed
(18) almost, billowy, chills, deity
(19) deer, genre, bubble
(20) my, arrk, efor, nde
(21) pawn, wily, damp, tear, core, road
(22) moon, trust, feed, high
(23) wage, quick, mossy
(24) nqdthntr, bnmrnmzmsr
(25) Inns, antsy
(26) rent, left, sanction
(27) Irish, wizard, Oliver
(28) XKXNVWI, XVVIKVHXINV

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