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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

See The Solution Submitted by SilverKnight

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Thieving

The words Ebony, stow, retrench, ... all contain the letters in the spelling of the numbers.

EbONy - ONE
sTOW - TWO
RETrEncH - THREE
UniFORm - FOUR
FEVerIsh - FIVE
eXItS - SIX
SoVErEigN - SEVEN

and hence

THIEvinG - EIGHT

Posted by Syzygy on 2004-11-09 08:35:42

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