Why are these words suspicious?












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Detective Jezerezeh has found a table of suspicious words:



list



teeth



actions



grammar



saying



information



engage



ballad



terror



What's so suspicious about them?



Hint 1:







I will either add more words or more hints if this isn't solved soon.










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  • It would be much appreciated, if you could wait about 24h before adding hints, we have people in many time zones, so it would be nice if everyone got an equal chance.
    – Bass
    1 hour ago










  • @Bass "Soon" is relative. 1 billion years could be soon in the grand scheme of things given the timescale of the universe. Oddly enough, I was going to say 24 hours, but decided against giving an exact time because I might forget to get back on this website anywhere around this time tomorrow.
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5














Detective Jezerezeh has found a table of suspicious words:



list



teeth



actions



grammar



saying



information



engage



ballad



terror



What's so suspicious about them?



Hint 1:







I will either add more words or more hints if this isn't solved soon.










share|improve this question
























  • It would be much appreciated, if you could wait about 24h before adding hints, we have people in many time zones, so it would be nice if everyone got an equal chance.
    – Bass
    1 hour ago










  • @Bass "Soon" is relative. 1 billion years could be soon in the grand scheme of things given the timescale of the universe. Oddly enough, I was going to say 24 hours, but decided against giving an exact time because I might forget to get back on this website anywhere around this time tomorrow.
    – Display name
    59 mins ago
















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5


1





Detective Jezerezeh has found a table of suspicious words:



list



teeth



actions



grammar



saying



information



engage



ballad



terror



What's so suspicious about them?



Hint 1:







I will either add more words or more hints if this isn't solved soon.










share|improve this question















Detective Jezerezeh has found a table of suspicious words:



list



teeth



actions



grammar



saying



information



engage



ballad



terror



What's so suspicious about them?



Hint 1:







I will either add more words or more hints if this isn't solved soon.







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  • It would be much appreciated, if you could wait about 24h before adding hints, we have people in many time zones, so it would be nice if everyone got an equal chance.
    – Bass
    1 hour ago










  • @Bass "Soon" is relative. 1 billion years could be soon in the grand scheme of things given the timescale of the universe. Oddly enough, I was going to say 24 hours, but decided against giving an exact time because I might forget to get back on this website anywhere around this time tomorrow.
    – Display name
    59 mins ago




















  • It would be much appreciated, if you could wait about 24h before adding hints, we have people in many time zones, so it would be nice if everyone got an equal chance.
    – Bass
    1 hour ago










  • @Bass "Soon" is relative. 1 billion years could be soon in the grand scheme of things given the timescale of the universe. Oddly enough, I was going to say 24 hours, but decided against giving an exact time because I might forget to get back on this website anywhere around this time tomorrow.
    – Display name
    59 mins ago


















It would be much appreciated, if you could wait about 24h before adding hints, we have people in many time zones, so it would be nice if everyone got an equal chance.
– Bass
1 hour ago




It would be much appreciated, if you could wait about 24h before adding hints, we have people in many time zones, so it would be nice if everyone got an equal chance.
– Bass
1 hour ago












@Bass "Soon" is relative. 1 billion years could be soon in the grand scheme of things given the timescale of the universe. Oddly enough, I was going to say 24 hours, but decided against giving an exact time because I might forget to get back on this website anywhere around this time tomorrow.
– Display name
59 mins ago






@Bass "Soon" is relative. 1 billion years could be soon in the grand scheme of things given the timescale of the universe. Oddly enough, I was going to say 24 hours, but decided against giving an exact time because I might forget to get back on this website anywhere around this time tomorrow.
– Display name
59 mins ago












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Could it be that there




Are other words hiding inside the suspicious words?




Namely,




list
teeth
actions
grammar
saying
information
engage







share|improve this answer





















  • No, but this deserves an upvote because it's quite a coincidence that this works.
    – Display name
    1 hour ago





















1














Preliminary guess




Three of them are near-palindromes: teet(h), (g)rammar, e(n)gage.




Also (and this was my hint),




(J)ezereze(h). And -- a bit more of a stretch -- su(sp)ici(o)us itself.




But that doesn't explain




list, actions, saying, information. They seem to be ... speech-related ???




[OP added words while I was writing this]:




(b)alla(d), which fits. Terror... uhm. :-)







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  • Not quite. However, rot13(gur snpg gung guerr bs gurz ner arne-cnyvaqebzrf vf abg n pbvapvqrapr). Also, you caught that earlier than usual. Perhaps "I will add more hints" tipped you off to the fact that there already was a hint.
    – Display name
    1 hour ago













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Could it be that there




Are other words hiding inside the suspicious words?




Namely,




list
teeth
actions
grammar
saying
information
engage







share|improve this answer





















  • No, but this deserves an upvote because it's quite a coincidence that this works.
    – Display name
    1 hour ago


















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Could it be that there




Are other words hiding inside the suspicious words?




Namely,




list
teeth
actions
grammar
saying
information
engage







share|improve this answer





















  • No, but this deserves an upvote because it's quite a coincidence that this works.
    – Display name
    1 hour ago
















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3








3






Could it be that there




Are other words hiding inside the suspicious words?




Namely,




list
teeth
actions
grammar
saying
information
engage







share|improve this answer












Could it be that there




Are other words hiding inside the suspicious words?




Namely,




list
teeth
actions
grammar
saying
information
engage








share|improve this answer












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  • No, but this deserves an upvote because it's quite a coincidence that this works.
    – Display name
    1 hour ago




















  • No, but this deserves an upvote because it's quite a coincidence that this works.
    – Display name
    1 hour ago


















No, but this deserves an upvote because it's quite a coincidence that this works.
– Display name
1 hour ago






No, but this deserves an upvote because it's quite a coincidence that this works.
– Display name
1 hour ago













1














Preliminary guess




Three of them are near-palindromes: teet(h), (g)rammar, e(n)gage.




Also (and this was my hint),




(J)ezereze(h). And -- a bit more of a stretch -- su(sp)ici(o)us itself.




But that doesn't explain




list, actions, saying, information. They seem to be ... speech-related ???




[OP added words while I was writing this]:




(b)alla(d), which fits. Terror... uhm. :-)







share|improve this answer





















  • Not quite. However, rot13(gur snpg gung guerr bs gurz ner arne-cnyvaqebzrf vf abg n pbvapvqrapr). Also, you caught that earlier than usual. Perhaps "I will add more hints" tipped you off to the fact that there already was a hint.
    – Display name
    1 hour ago


















1














Preliminary guess




Three of them are near-palindromes: teet(h), (g)rammar, e(n)gage.




Also (and this was my hint),




(J)ezereze(h). And -- a bit more of a stretch -- su(sp)ici(o)us itself.




But that doesn't explain




list, actions, saying, information. They seem to be ... speech-related ???




[OP added words while I was writing this]:




(b)alla(d), which fits. Terror... uhm. :-)







share|improve this answer





















  • Not quite. However, rot13(gur snpg gung guerr bs gurz ner arne-cnyvaqebzrf vf abg n pbvapvqrapr). Also, you caught that earlier than usual. Perhaps "I will add more hints" tipped you off to the fact that there already was a hint.
    – Display name
    1 hour ago
















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1






Preliminary guess




Three of them are near-palindromes: teet(h), (g)rammar, e(n)gage.




Also (and this was my hint),




(J)ezereze(h). And -- a bit more of a stretch -- su(sp)ici(o)us itself.




But that doesn't explain




list, actions, saying, information. They seem to be ... speech-related ???




[OP added words while I was writing this]:




(b)alla(d), which fits. Terror... uhm. :-)







share|improve this answer












Preliminary guess




Three of them are near-palindromes: teet(h), (g)rammar, e(n)gage.




Also (and this was my hint),




(J)ezereze(h). And -- a bit more of a stretch -- su(sp)ici(o)us itself.




But that doesn't explain




list, actions, saying, information. They seem to be ... speech-related ???




[OP added words while I was writing this]:




(b)alla(d), which fits. Terror... uhm. :-)








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  • Not quite. However, rot13(gur snpg gung guerr bs gurz ner arne-cnyvaqebzrf vf abg n pbvapvqrapr). Also, you caught that earlier than usual. Perhaps "I will add more hints" tipped you off to the fact that there already was a hint.
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  • Not quite. However, rot13(gur snpg gung guerr bs gurz ner arne-cnyvaqebzrf vf abg n pbvapvqrapr). Also, you caught that earlier than usual. Perhaps "I will add more hints" tipped you off to the fact that there already was a hint.
    – Display name
    1 hour ago


















Not quite. However, rot13(gur snpg gung guerr bs gurz ner arne-cnyvaqebzrf vf abg n pbvapvqrapr). Also, you caught that earlier than usual. Perhaps "I will add more hints" tipped you off to the fact that there already was a hint.
– Display name
1 hour ago






Not quite. However, rot13(gur snpg gung guerr bs gurz ner arne-cnyvaqebzrf vf abg n pbvapvqrapr). Also, you caught that earlier than usual. Perhaps "I will add more hints" tipped you off to the fact that there already was a hint.
– Display name
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