Word: likened
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Lamar can't help but liken this year's Yardling squad to the Freshmen of 1946--a team composed of such present Varsity performers as Jim Kenary, Hal Moffle, George Goodrich, Dick Guldera, Doug Bradlee and Rocky Stone. In action, size, and experience the present squad bears a startling resemblance to his 1946 team...
...Pick out the item which violates a positive rule or characteristic of the other five: adjacent, conform, deprive, liken, oblivious, prior...
...word that doesn't fit in that grouping is "liken," an Anglo-Saxon derivative. All the others . . . are formed from Latin roots...
...Deprive" would be possible, proceeding on this hypothesis: conform to, liken to, prior to, oblivious to, but deprive of ... The reason for selecting "adjacent" completely eludes me. A misprint, a bad question, or are we "oblivious" to something quite obvious...
adjacent conform deprive liken oblivious prior