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Six Similar Words (Posted on 2005-10-03) Difficulty: 2 of 5
There are six words that satisfy the following six definitions (one word for each definition) and these words share an unusual property. What are the six words and what is the unusual property?

  • Removed the withered heads of flowers
  • One who can recall an event
  • Emphasizes again
  • Calmness
  • Bare-armed
  • Whispers
  • See The Solution Submitted by Nosher    
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    Solution That property--found with help | Comment 4 of 6 |

    Looking at Bob Smith's proposed words:

    deadheaded
    rememberer
    reaccents
    sereneness
    sleeveless
    susurrates

    What comes to mind is not the side of the keyboard that most of the letters are on, but rather the low number of different letters per word.  More precisely, each word (except 3rd and 6th) has 4 of one letter, 3 of another, 2 of another, and 1 of the last.

    According to Nosher, the 3rd is wrong, and the 6th is merely the wrong part of speech.  Unfortunately, I'm not so good as Bob Smith or Penny's computer programs at finding these words.  The closest I could find for number 3 is "reiterates" and number 6 seems to be "susurrations", but neither fits the above criteria.  Perhaps I am wrong about the property.


      Posted by Tristan on 2005-10-04 06:42:47
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