Word wizard – Odd words
What is the Word Wizard?
Word Wizard helps improve spelling by creating lists and playing with word-building on their own.
What are Odd Words?
A word that does not belong to a group is called Odd Word.
- The Odd Word Out exercise can help us identify our command over the English language.
- Here, we are testing our deductive reasoning abilities.
- Through the Odd Word Out exercise, we evaluate our logical thinking since we have to identify synonyms and similar words.
- The method is to check each word in a given list.
- Then, choose the one that does not fit in with the other words in terms of common features.
- The list could have words on parts of speech, comparable functions, similar traits, or similar meanings.
- It could be words that rhyme, with other odd being non-rhyming words.
- The method is to check each word in a given list.
- Then, choose the one that does not fit in with the other words in terms of common features.
- The list could have words on parts of speech, comparable functions, similar traits, or similar meanings.
- It could be words that rhyme, with other odd being non-rhyming words.
- Find the common feature.
Example
- All the words start with the letter “f”)
- All the words are synonyms except for one word, which is an antonym.
- Do these words have the same meanings?
- Do these terms belong to the same vocabulary category: fruits, cars, or plants?
- Do the words rhyme?
- Does each word in this list start with the same letter?
- Do these words correspond to a particular speech component?
- Now you can find the one that does not belong in the group as others share a common feature that this one does not have.
- Snake
- Lizard
- Turtle
- Whale
Which Is the One That Does Not Belong to That Group?
Solution:
Snakes, Lizard, Turtle, and Whale all come under the animal category.
But snakes, lizards, and turtles belong to the reptile group of animals, whereas a whale is a mammal.
Thus, the whale is different from the other three.
Hence, the whale is the odd one.
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