First, you will be given a list of three "nonsense" words and their English word meanings. The question(s) that follow will ask you to reverse the process and translate an English word into the artificial language.
1. | Here are some words translated from an artificial language. |
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Answer: Option C Explanation: In this language, the adjective follows the noun. From dionot and blyonot, you can determine that 'onot' means oak. From blyonot and blycrin, you can determine that bly means leaf. Therefore, crin means maple. Because the adjective maple comes after the noun, patricrin is the only possible choice. |
2. | Here are some words translated from an artificial language. |
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Answer: Option A Explanation: Myn means saddle; cabel means horse; cono means trail; and wir means ride. Therefore, cabelwir is the correct answer. |
3. | Here are some words translated from an artificial language. |
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Answer: Option B Explanation: Leli means yellow; broon means hat; pleka means flower; froti means garden; mix means salad. Therefore, lelipleka means yellow flower. |
4. | Here are some words translated from an artificial language. |
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Answer: Option A Explanation: Dafta means advise; foni is the same as the suffix -ment; imo is the same as the prefix mis-; lokti means conduct. Since the only word in the answer choices that hasn't been defined is krata, it is reasonable to assume that krata means state. Therefore, kratafoni is the only choice that could mean statement. |
5. | Here are some words translated from an artificial language. |
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Answer: Option A Explanation: Grana means big;melkemeans tree; pini means little; hoonmeans house. Therefore, granahoon means big house. |
6. | Here are some words translated from an artificial language. |
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Answer: Option C Explanation: In this language, the adjective follows the noun. From godabim and romzbim, you can determine that bim means kidney. From romzbim and romzbako, you can determine that romz means beans. Therefore, bako means wax. Because the adjective wax must come after the noun in this language, wasibako is the only choice. |
7. | Here are some words translated from an artificial language. |
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Answer: Option D Explanation: Migen means cup; lasan means board; poen means walk; cuop means pull; and dansa means man. The only possible choices, then, are choices a and d. Choice a can be ruled out because migen means cup. |
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Answer: Option D Explanation: From wilkospadi, you can determine that wilko means bicicyle and spadi means race. Therefore, the first part of the word that means racecar should begin with spadi. That limits your choices to b and d. Choice b, spadiwilko, is incorrect because we have already determined that wilkomeans bicycle. Therefore, the answer must be choice d, spadivolo. |