Below are three sets of three words. Each word shares a common linguistic property. The words in each set share a nested property. Identify the properties and explain.
Lift
Beams
Destroy
Gas
Lapse
Successor
Compose
Correct
Custom
This appears to be harder than I had intended, so I'll start providing hints.
Hint 1:
There are two stages to this puzzle. To uncover stage two, it may help to read aloud. There's more in what you'll hear than in what you'll see.
Hint 2:
Some of these words have multiple meanings, but this puzzle only focuses on one. To hopefully weed out some red herrings in future answers, here is a list of which part of speech each word is meant to be:
Lift: Verb
Beams: Plural noun
Destroy: Verb
Gas: Noun
Lapse: Verb
Successor: Noun
Compose: Verb
Correct: Adjective
Custom: Noun