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Can you rank the following series of words in the proper order?

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Can you rank the following series of words in the proper order?

admission, cook, governor, league, message, mustard, pepper, punishment

posted Jun 4, 2015 by Prithvi

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Military rank can be added to each word to form a phrase as follows:
private- message
corporal- punishment
sergeant- pepper
lieutenant- governor
captain- cook
major- league
colonel- mustard
general- admission

answer Aug 1, 2018 by Hanifa Mammadov



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