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Compound Words 4

The teacup was hot to touch!

Compound Words 4

Compound words are a mixture of other words.

In this series of 11-plus verbal reasoning quizzes you have to find one word from each group of words in brackets that together makes one correctly spelled word. The letters must not be rearranged. The word from the first group will always be used first.

Choose one answer from the four choices available. This is the final quiz in the Compound Word series. You are about to be a qualified compound word expert!

An example has been done for you. Enjoy Compound Words quiz number 4 and when you've finished playing this quiz, give yourself a treat.

Example: Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(hand finger toe) (sun some son)

hand son
hand sun
finger some
hand some

The correct answer is hand some because hand and some together make the compound word handsome.
1.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each group below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(stand stay step) (stun son sun)
stand son
stay son
step sun
step son
The correct answer is step son because step and son together make the compound word stepson. A stepson is the son of a married partner
2.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each group below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(wheel car bus) (straight house long)
wheel house
car long
car straight
bus long
The correct answer is wheel house because wheel and house together make the compound word wheelhouse. The wheelhouse on a ship is the place where it is steered from
3.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each group below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(year week time) (send lend end)
year end
time lend
week end
year send
The correct answer is week end because week and end together make the compound word weekend. In France the words 'le weekend' have been banned by people who do not like to see English words coming into the French language. Can you think of a French word which we use? See below for some ideas
4.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each group below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(tea coffee milk) (cup lump shape)
tea shape
milk lump
coffee shape
tea cup
The correct answer is tea cup because tea and cup together make the compound word teacup
5.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each group below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(battle war fight) (math lath path)
battle math
war lath
war path
fight path
The correct answer is war path because war and path together make the compound word warpath. We like the idea of 'battlemath' but cannot imagine what it would look like!
6.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each group below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(bad fair good) (why bye lie)
bad lie
fair bye
good why
good bye
The correct answer is goodbye because good and bye together make the compound word goodbye. Originally goodbye meant 'God be with you'. The answer to the puzzle in question 3? How about rendezvous, bureau and ballet? How many can you think of?
7.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each group below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(jelly cake bun) (sole bowl fish)
jelly bowl
cake sole
bun fish
jelly fish
The correct answer is jelly fish because jelly and fish together make the compound word jellyfish. It is believed that a jellyfish can live virtually forever. It is one of very few animals that can replace every cell in its body if it is damaged or infected or just suffering from old age
8.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each group below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(grave ground grass) (hand year yard)
grave year
grass year
grave yard
ground hand
The correct answer is grave yard because grave and yard together make the compound word graveyard. Did you hear about the skeleton who couldn't go to the disco? He had no body to go with!
9.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each group below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(four fore fir) (bought taught thought)
fore bought
fir thought
fore thought
four taught
The correct answer is fore thought because fore and thought together make the compound word forethought
10.
Which two words together can make a new, compound word? Choose one word from each of the three groups below and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

(high low wide) (road load way) (boy girl man)
This compound word has three words in it!
high load girl
low road boy
high way man
wide way boy
The correct answer is high way man because high and way and man together make the compound word highwayman. We just wanted you to know, on the last question of the last Compound Word quiz, that some compound words have more than two words in them. We really hope you have enjoyed this set of quizzes and look forward to you trying some more of our Verbal Reasoning quizzes
Author:  Stephen O'Hara

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