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What comes next? (Posted on 2004-11-09)

Ebony, stow, retrench, uniform, feverish, exits, sovereign...

Which of the following words is the best fit to continue the sequence?

orchard
malaise
essence
thieving
sporadic
rhapsody
ivory

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| Comment 8 of 9 |

The list of words, with a few extra letters, are anagrams of the spelled out ordinal number of the word's placement in the list: ebony := one + by stow := two + s retrench := three + cn uniform := four + imn feverish := five + ehrs exits := six + et sovereign := seven + gior ...the next would be... thieving := eight + inv ...and might continue as... engines := nine + egs centered := ten + cdeer development := eleven + dmopt interviewable := twelve + abeiinr tightener := thirteen + g fortunateness := fourteen + ansst differential := fifteen + adilr existence := sixteen + ce....

Posted by Dej Mar on 2008-09-03 04:17:09

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