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Arrange the given words in the sequence in which they occur in the dictionary.

1. Dillydallying

2. Dillydallied

3. Dillydally

4. Dilled

5. Dillydallies

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SSC CGL 2017 (Tier 1) Previous Year Paper (16-Aug-2017) (Shift 1)
The correct answer is

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Compare letter by letter. All five words share the prefix Dill. The fifth letter splits them: Dilled (e) precedes the four Dilly… words (y), so Dilled (4) comes first.

Among the Dilly-words, the ninth letter decides next: Dillydallied and Dillydallies have i, while Dillydally and Dillydallying have y. Between Dillydallied and Dillydallies, d precedes s, giving 2 then 5.

Finally, Dillydally is a prefix of Dillydallying, so the shorter word 3 comes before 1.

Order: 4, 2, 5, 3, 1.

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