11-plus Verbal Reasoning | Complete the word, hidden 3-letter words

Verbal Reasoning Quiz - Complete the Word 2 (Questions)

Complete the Word tests you to find the hidden word.

As with 'Complete the Word 1', these sentences each contain a word in CAALS with a common three-letter word missing from it (in this case, PIT ... as you probably realised).

This time, though, the words are not all names of animals, though they are usually common enough words in their own right.

If you think these questions are quite difficult, you could find it helpful to say the sentence out loud. The missing word might be easier to spot that way. Alternatively you could try adding each of the answers into the word on a piece of paper and see which one fits.

Do your best in this 11-plus verbal reasoning quiz and see if you can get top marks.

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
When I am old like my grandfather, I doubt there will be NEWSPRS for me to sit around and read all day.

[ ]	PIG
[ ]	APE
[ ]	DOG
[ ]	ANT

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
There's another sponsored walk next week; I quite enjoy them, but we do seem to spend a lot of our time DRAISING these days.

[ ]	JOG
[ ]	FUN
[ ]	RUN
[ ]	BIG

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
Frankly I would find it UNBABLE to have to work amid all that noise.

[ ]	ROW
[ ]	SAY
[ ]	EAR
[ ]	CAN

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
We shall have to buy a bigger set of kitchen vessels now that our young family is EXDING.

[ ]	CRY
[ ]	PAN
[ ]	DRY
[ ]	LET

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
By the time the rain finished, the whole forest was SING.

[ ]	ELM
[ ]	ASH
[ ]	OAK
[ ]	CAP

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
If you still can't find your lost purse by first thing next week, we'd better go back and have a careful look around the place where we were sitting during the performance on URDAY evening.

[ ]	WED
[ ]	FRY
[ ]	SUN
[ ]	SAT

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
People who study living things, from plants and trees to fish, birds, animals and insects, are all classed as BIOISTS.

[ ]	PIG
[ ]	LOG
[ ]	AIR
[ ]	STY

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
By the time they reached the PUDG stage of the meal, there was plenty of noise going on around the table.

[ ]	EGG
[ ]	DIN
[ ]	FAD
[ ]	SAP

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
The child was so angry that it didn't care where it would be sent if it were DISOIENT.

[ ]	FAR
[ ]	OLD
[ ]	BED
[ ]	SAD

10.

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
The soldiers burst through the gate, and TPLED everything behind it underfoot in their rush to reach the inner citadel.

[ ]	DIG
[ ]	POT
[ ]	RAM
[ ]	LAY

Verbal Reasoning Quiz - Complete the Word 2 (Answers)

[ ]	PIG
[x]	APE
[ ]	DOG
[ ]	ANT

Well, we did say they wouldn't all be animals this time ... but this one was: there's an APE in the newspAPEr!

[ ]	JOG
[x]	FUN
[ ]	RUN
[ ]	BIG

We hope that such events are FUN, when you are FUNdraising

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
Frankly I would find it UNBABLE to have to work amid all that noise.

[ ]	ROW
[ ]	SAY
[x]	EAR
[ ]	CAN

Yes, your EARs are at risk in a noisy environment; the pain they may give you is nature's warning to get clear, if it's unbEARable, before you allow yourself to do permanent damage to your hEARing

[ ]	CRY
[x]	PAN
[ ]	DRY
[ ]	LET

They need bigger pots and PANs if their family is exPANding

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
By the time the rain finished, the whole forest was SING.

[ ]	ELM
[ ]	ASH
[x]	OAK
[ ]	CAP

Even the mighty OAK may be in for a sOAKing

[ ]	WED
[ ]	FRY
[ ]	SUN
[x]	SAT

... Where did they sit on SATurday?

[ ]	PIG
[x]	LOG
[ ]	AIR
[ ]	STY

BioLOGy is the study of living things; bioLOGists are the people who work in this field.
A LOG is an interesting place to study this subject: it may be made of dead vegetable matter, but it probably plays host to all sorts of creatures

[ ]	EGG
[x]	DIN
[ ]	FAD
[ ]	SAP

There sounds to have been a merry DIN as people ate their pudDINg around the DINner table

Pick the three-letter word which would make the best sense if added into the word in capitals in the sentence.
The child was so angry that it didn't care where it would be sent if it were DISOIENT.

[ ]	FAR
[ ]	OLD
[x]	BED
[ ]	SAD

The child might have been sent to BED for being disoBEDient

10.

[ ]	DIG
[ ]	POT
[x]	RAM
[ ]	LAY

They may well have broken the big gate with a battering RAM before tRAMpling their way onwards and inwards