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1. What is the next number in the following series: 2,813, 701, 173 and 41 ? 2. What connects child, drain and wave? 3. Which food-named person might use BARREN SOIL? 4. Which is the odd one out: cowardly, stupid, inexperienced, depressed? 5. Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: ---ee, s---ed, pa---a, ---ment?

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