Free 11+ verbal reasoning practice question: Hidden word
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A four-letter word is hidden across the join between two words in this sentence.
Which word is it?
“She untied the rope, then carried the heavy bucket indoors.”
💡 Hints
Every option really is somewhere in this sentence, so finding the letters is not the test. The test is whether the four letters straddle a space.
🗝️ Cross the gap, in order
Join two neighbouring words.
Read four letters in a row across the join.
Only a real word counts.
1
Four of the options can be found without crossing anything: tied sits in ‘untied’, buck in ‘bucket’, door in ‘indoors’, and rope is printed as a word of its own.
2
So work through the spaces instead. ‘the rope’ pushed together gives therope.
3
Reading four letters across that join gives hero. Of the five options, that is the only one any gap produces.
🎉 Answer: B. hero (untied the rope)
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