11-plus Verbal Reasoning | Hidden words, part of one and another

Verbal Reasoning Quiz - Hidden Word 4 (Questions)

The hidden words in this 11-plus verbal reasoning quiz are part of one word and part of another word.

In each of the following sentences a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words will always be next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

Scrabble is the world's most popular word game, with 150 million of the popular board game being owned by people in 121 countries. We don't ask you to find the hidden words from 7 letters, just to find four letter words hidden between two other words.

See if you can get ten out of ten in this last quiz on hidden words. An example has been done to help you. Good luck!

Example: The dog was frightened by the noise.

The dog

dog was

was frightened

the noise

Answer: then (the noise)
The word 'then' is hidden in the noise

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

The boat drifted from the harbour despite being held by thin chains.

[ ]	thin chains
[ ]	boat drifted
[ ]	harbour despite
[ ]	being held

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

You only need to ask in this school, and you will get help.

[ ]	only need
[ ]	you will
[ ]	ask in
[ ]	get help

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

At last, after days of waiting, the chaffinch appeared at the bottom of the garden.

[ ]	chaffinch appeared
[ ]	appeared at
[ ]	days of
[ ]	last, after

[ ]	like my
[ ]	tea stirred
[ ]	stirred, not
[ ]	not shaken

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

My favourite type of magician is an escape artist.

[ ]	favourite type
[ ]	escape artist
[ ]	an escape
[ ]	My favourite

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

He was teasing me with the CD, holding the disc above his head and laughing.

[ ]	teasing me
[ ]	disc above
[ ]	holding the
[ ]	and laughing

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

If you want to know real fame, show your photographs to a good agent.

[ ]	real fame
[ ]	good agent
[ ]	show your
[ ]	fame show

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

When he came on stage, he decided he would clap especially loudly.

[ ]	decided he
[ ]	would clap
[ ]	clap especially
[ ]	especially loudly

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

My favourite food for tea is cheese and meat omelette.

[ ]	My favourite
[ ]	favourite food
[ ]	cheese and
[ ]	meat omelette

10.

[ ]	Nothing frightens
[ ]	more than
[ ]	home alone
[ ]	being home

Verbal Reasoning Quiz - Hidden Word 4 (Answers)

[x]	thin chains
[ ]	boat drifted
[ ]	harbour despite
[ ]	being held

thin chains is the correct answer because inch is hidden between thin and chains

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

You only need to ask in this school, and you will get help.

[ ]	only need
[ ]	you will
[x]	ask in
[ ]	get help

ask in is the correct answer because skin is hidden between ask and in. Don't forget to be polite though!

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

At last, after days of waiting, the chaffinch appeared at the bottom of the garden.

[x]	chaffinch appeared
[ ]	appeared at
[ ]	days of
[ ]	last, after

chaffinch appeared is the correct answer because chap is hidden between chaffinch and appeared. The chaffinch is the UK's second commonest breeding bird

[ ]	like my
[x]	tea stirred
[ ]	stirred, not
[ ]	not shaken

tea stirred is the correct answer because teas and east are hidden between tea and stirred. In the UK we drink around 165 million cups of tea every day!

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

My favourite type of magician is an escape artist.

[ ]	favourite type
[x]	escape artist
[ ]	an escape
[ ]	My favourite

escape artist is the correct answer because pear is hidden between escape and artist. Perhaps the most famous escape artist was Harry Houdini, known as The Great Houdini

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

He was teasing me with the CD, holding the disc above his head and laughing.

[ ]	teasing me
[x]	disc above
[ ]	holding the
[ ]	and laughing

disc above is the correct answer because scab is hidden between disc and above. Disgusting they may be, but scabs help us to heal by forming a barrier against infection

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

If you want to know real fame, show your photographs to a good agent.

[ ]	real fame
[ ]	good agent
[ ]	show your
[x]	fame show

fame show is the correct answer because mesh is hidden between fame and show. The artist Andy Warhol once said that everyone would one day have "fifteen minutes of fame"

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

When he came on stage, he decided he would clap especially loudly.

[ ]	decided he
[ ]	would clap
[x]	clap especially
[ ]	especially loudly

clap especially is the correct answer because apes is hidden between clap and especially. We wonder who "he" was. Justin Bieber? Harry Styles?

In the sentence below a FOUR letter word is hidden between two words. The two words are next to each other. Find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the four choices available.

My favourite food for tea is cheese and meat omelette.

[ ]	My favourite
[ ]	favourite food
[ ]	cheese and
[x]	meat omelette

meat omelette is the correct answer because atom and tome are hidden between meat and omelette. The word omelette comes from the fourteenth century French word for "blade of a knife" because omelettes were considered to be as flat as a blade

10.

[ ]	Nothing frightens
[ ]	more than
[x]	home alone
[ ]	being home

home alone is the correct answer because meal is hidden between home and alone. The movie Home Alone is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-grossing live-action comedy film ever