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HTML

<span class="classA">word1</span>
<span class="classB">word2</span>
<span class="classA">word3</span>

CSS

.classA {
    color: red;
  }
.classA:hover + .classB + .classA {
    color: blue;
  }
.classA:hover {
    color: blue;
  }