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Brain Game: As Easy as ABCD
by Sandy - July 10, 2008 - 6:30 AM

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I was reading the dictionary the other day - yes, I sometimes do that to generate ideas - when I came upon the word “abscond.” For some reason, I noticed that there’s an “A” and “B” at the beginning, a “C” in the middle, and a “D” at the end. Four consecutive letters of the alphabet. I did some digging for similar words, and today’s Brain Game features one of them:

Fill in the four blanks in the following
word with four consecutive letters
of the alphabet to form a word.

_ U _ I _ _ U S

Click here for the answer.

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Comments (11)

  1. Wow, I got one.

    posted by adrienne on 7-10-2008 at 8:19 am

  2. luminous…wasnt that had to figure out especially with that “..us” being there

    posted by jodie on 7-10-2008 at 8:22 am

  3. Nice job, Adrienne!

    That’s what we shoot for. Some you get (and feel good about), some you don’t (and learn something). It’s best to have a mixture of the two.

    posted by Sandy on 7-10-2008 at 8:42 am

  4. Yay, I love the word ones because I actually have a change of getting them right (all that dictionary perusing coming in handy)! I still try the number ones though, just in case. Keep it up, Sandy!

    reCaptcha: Sousa standing–that just sounds awesome. :-D

    posted by nutmeag on 7-10-2008 at 9:03 am

  5. luminous….that one was easy.

    hey my recaptcha is “what happened”
    that’s what I really want to know…what happened???

    posted by sandie on 7-10-2008 at 10:16 am

  6. I got it! yay.

    it was interesting to figure out. I got the O first, since “ous” is a common word ending. worked backwards from there.

    I’m very pleased with myself. :-]

    posted by jenny on 7-10-2008 at 10:18 am

  7. I always liked the word facetious because it had all the vowels in order…

    posted by craig on 7-10-2008 at 11:07 am

  8. YAY this is the first one I’ve ever gotten right!

    posted by sarah on 7-10-2008 at 1:48 pm

  9. Sandy: I worked this out the same way as jenny. Usually I just cheat and check the answer, especially if it’s a math/number question. Anytime it’s a word or some sort of vocabulary, though, I actually give it a shot.

    posted by adrienne on 7-10-2008 at 2:25 pm

  10. I hardly ever get these, today’s must just have been super easy.

    posted by Cassie on 7-10-2008 at 3:50 pm

  11. what about ‘almost’ and ‘chintz,’ which have all 6 letters in order?

    posted by Nick on 7-12-2008 at 9:47 pm

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