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BRAIN GAMES

HAVING A When you talk or write, your brain searches
through your vocabulary to pick out the words
WORD games test your understanding of the
you need to express yourself. The following

relationships between words and also show
how easily your brain can become confused
when you read words in a strange context.
Check your answers on page 189.

Quick comparisons
Odd ones out Figuring out the relationships between
In each of the following lists of words, words is the first step to correctly using
three of the five are related in some way. them. Choose the right word to complete
See if you can guess which two are the the sentences below.
odd ones out and why.
ǩ %LUG LV WR EHDN DV KXPDQ LV WR
1. Sail, cone, mast, cat, deck eye, mouth, hair, fur, crow
ǩ (\HV DUH WR VLJKW DV QRVH LV WR
2. Stapler, pencil, ruler, pen, crayon
smell, aroma, taste, touch, hearing
3. Moon, Earth, Mars, Sun, Neptune ǩ ,Q LV WR RXW DV RII LV WR
up, back, on, below, above
4. Dolphin, sparrow, robin, crow, sea horse
ǩ 3HQ LV WR LQN DV EUXVK LV WR
pencil, color, paper, paint, brush stroke
5. Tree, run, flower, sky, laugh
ǩ 7ULF\FOH LV WR WKUHH DV ELF\FOH LV WR
two, four, unicycle, five, one

Mixed messages
Blue Green Orange White Pink The circumstances in which you see
words influence the way you read.

Red Orange Blue Green Orange Step 1
Time yourself as you read out the color of
the writing, not the word itself. Look at the
White Pink Green Red Red 15 words in the top panel.
Step 2
Next, time yourself as you try to do the
same with the panel below.
Blue Green Orange White Pink
It is very difficult to equal or beat your
time from Step 1. For people who are
Red Orange Blue Green Orange proficient at reading, it is difficult not to
automatically read the word. If the color of
it
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the word and the word itself are not the
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White Pink Green Red Red same, we say the word much quicker
than we can naame the color.
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