1. What do the following words have in common?

BED

BLUR

GREED

GRANGE

SINK

2. What do the following words have in common?

LIMP

FINE

LOUD

WILL

SINK

3. What do the following words have in common?

EQUATE

DICTION

VISOR

MISSION

HINTS:

1. It has to do with replacing letters.

2.

Hint #1: Drop the first letter of each word.

Hint #2: The same three letters can now precede each word.

3. Each word can be preceded by the same two letters.

Answers:

1. Changing one letter in each word will produce a word that names a color.

RED/ BLUE/ GREEN/ ORANGE/ PINK

2. Dropping the first letter of each word and then preceding the remaining letters by SHR yields new words.

SHRIMP/ SHRINE/ SHROUD/ SHRILL/ SHRINK

3. Each word can be preceded by AD:

ADEQUATE/ ADDICTION/ ADVISOR/ ADMISSION