Uncommonly common
What do the following words have in common ?
catalog, passing, canape, medallion, berate, foxnews
catalog, passing, canape, medallion, berate, foxnews
Labels: out-of-the-box, wordfun
posted by Rajesh Lal at
9:10 AM
11 Comments:
Each word is actually a combination of two words.
They all contain atleast two other words
catalog: cat, log
passing: pass, sing
canape: can, ape
medallion: medal, lion
berate: be, rate
foxnews: fox, news
not sure if this is 100% correct but just something that I noticed
Maybe they can't be anagrammed into a different word?
they all have animals names inside them. "cat"alog p"ass"ing can"ape" medal"lion" be"rat"e "fox"news
-leggy
all the words start with consonants? lol. then the 2nd letter in each word is a vowel, then another consonant.
I Will have to go with Anonymous-Leggy
An ass- is a donkey.
I remember my teacher calling a student an ass once and the student threathned action for being disrespectful, the teacher said go look in a dictionary lol
I think this is a test of human's natural tendencies to see patterns in a seemingly chaotic and random set of data. I'll bet if a computer randomly selected any 6 words from a dictionary, we could come up with a whole list of similarities between them, none of which would be necessarily “wrong” or “right”.
are the yoxymorons, because the title is
They all have more then one sylable.
-Killerofsheep
all of them have an animal name in the spelling which is common
1.cat
2.ass
3.ape
4.lion
5.rat
6.fox
ANSWER - All have animal names hidden
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CATalog, pASSing, canAPE, medalLION, beRATe, FOXnews
GOT RIGHT
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Anonymous 3rd and Jostna
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