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.

The Test:

(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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Estimated norm:

Raw score	IQ (SD = 15)
12	125
14	132
16	139
18	145
20	151
22	158
24	166
26	173
28	≥180

Disclaimer: These norms are valid only under conditions of fully independent completion.

Any external aid invalidates the resulting estimate.

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