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All 16 words, sorted alphabetically. Group them into four categories of four.
BULB
COMMON
DOMINANT
GENERAL
HAMMER
KEY
LEAF
PEDAL
POPULAR
ROOT
SODA
STEM
STORMY
STRING
TAN
TONIC
Themes
The four category names, easiest to hardest. No words revealed yet.
VEGETABLE PARTSStraightforward
PREVAILINGModerate
PARTS OF A PIANOTricky
SECOND HALVES OF DRINK NAMESDevious
One word per group
Theme name plus one word from each category.
VEGETABLE PARTSStraightforward
ANATOMY OF A CARROT OR CABBAGE+ 3 more…
PREVAILINGModerate
WORDS MEANING WIDESPREAD OR MOST FREQUENT+ 3 more…
PARTS OF A PIANOTricky
COMPONENTS FOUND INSIDE A PIANO+ 3 more…
SECOND HALVES OF DRINK NAMESDevious
THESE COMPLETE THE NAMES OF COCKTAILS OR CLASSIC DRINKS WHEN PAIRED WITH A WORD BEFORE THEM+ 3 more…
Full solution
VEGETABLE PARTSStraightforward
BULB,LEAF,ROOT,STEM
BULB, LEAF, ROOT, and STEM are all structural parts of a vegetable plant.
PREVAILINGModerate
COMMON,DOMINANT,GENERAL,POPULAR
COMMON, DOMINANT, GENERAL, and POPULAR all mean prevailing or most widely found/accepted.
PARTS OF A PIANOTricky
HAMMER,KEY,PEDAL,STRING
HAMMER, KEY, PEDAL, and STRING are all physical parts of a piano's mechanism.
SECOND HALVES OF DRINK NAMESDevious
SODA,STORMY,TAN,TONIC
SODA (baking soda / rum and soda), STORMY (Dark and Stormy), TAN (Sultan / Burtan), and TONIC (gin and tonic) are all second halves of drink names.