The following words have something in common:

DERIDE, MADE, MAID, MAIL, MISDID, RIDE, WADE, WAIL

The following words have a different something in common:

ACCEPT, ACES, BABOON, PUSHUP, SICK, WOOF, WOOFER

The following list incorporates both ideas, but is also in a particular order:

HE, AM, ACID, ACES, AMAZES, OUTRIDE, ACTIVATE

Of the following, what word best fits as the next in sequence?:

CORRECT, CORRECTION, CORRECTLY, CORRECTNESS, CORRECTOR, CORRECTORS, or CORRECTS

The words in the first list are all made up of the postal cods of US states, e.g. MISDID  = Michigan (MI), South Dakota (SD) and Idaho (ID).

A few of the words in the combined list also include state abbreviations, but I'm totally lost as to the common thread of the second list.

Posted by Jyqm on 2007-01-22 16:03:31