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Only ten words hold N second and S third, and three of them differ by a single letter.
All three share the last four letters and change only the first. An ONSET is a beginning, an INSET is something placed within something else, and UNSET means not yet fixed.
Confirming anything after the first box leaves all three live. This is a pattern where the opening letter is the entire puzzle.
Ten of the ten do, with U on four and E and I on two each. No consonant produces this pair at five letters.
E fills the fourth box in five of the ten, which is half the group and more. T closes three, mostly from the ONSET trio.
So the back of the word is close to settled from the start. Everything this pattern asks of you sits in the first box.
ONSET and INSET are both common in ordinary writing. UNSET is the rarest of the three and usually turns up in technical contexts.
To raise something to the sky or to heaven. Shakespeare used it and few others have since.
To deprive of the qualities of a sex, best known from Lady Macbeth's unsex me here. It is literary rather than current.
NS is a consonant pair English mostly uses at the end of a word, as in LENS and PENS. Only a vowel plus N can force it into the second and third boxes.