citizen ● partner ● recruit ● scholar ● sponsor ● stewardObviously, a person can be a citizen, or a partner, or a recruit, or a scholar, or a sponsor, or a steward, but one of these six differs from the others in a fundamental way. Which one?
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Correct solutions have been submitted below by an anonymous reader and by Siegfried, and by Claire via email. Only Siegfried has explained the reason for his answer.
Recruit
ReplyDeleteThis one must be easy. There has been one anonymous correct answer, and my niece Claire has submitted the correct answer by email.
ReplyDeleteThe odd one out is recruit. All the others may take the suffix -ship. I'm not familiar enough with the etymology to say why exactly that is.
ReplyDeleteSiegfried
The clue is in the post title. Although ‘recruit’ can be a noun, it is primarily a verb, and in general verbs take the suffix –ment.
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