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Word Oddity (4) Half-time (Posted on 2007-11-26) Difficulty: 1 of 5
Fickleheaded, blackballed, and blackmailed share a peculiar property. Similarly soupspoons, topsy-turvy, and nonsupport share a related but not identical property. What are the two properties exhibited by these groups of words?

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Each of the three words in the first group - that is,  "fickleheaded", "blackballed" and "blackmailed" is entirely constituted by the first half of the letters in the alphabet, that is - the letters A to M.

Each of the three words in the second group - that is, "soupspoons", "topsy-turvy"(disregarding the hyphen) and "nonsupport" is entirely constituted by the second half of the letters in the alphabet - that is the letters N to Z.

  Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-07-23 00:27:28
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