Each of the words below is the second word of a common two-word phrase. The first words of each phrase will share a common property. Can you determine the words and the shared property?

1. Arguments
2. Battles
3. Feeling
4. Generation

Answers:

1. Closing arguments
2. Losing battles
3. Sinking feeling
4. Rising generation

Each of the first words contain the letters SIN:

1. cloSINg
2. loSINg
3. SINking
4. riSINg