This 11-Plus Verbal Reasoning Same Meaning quiz tests you on similar words.
English has a rich supply of words that do the same job as one another, or very nearly. When writing or speaking English, it's a very good idea to use different words. For instance look at the following two examples:
As you will see, the second example is far more interesting to read than the first. In each of the following sentences you will find a word in CAPITALS and you need to select the answer which offers a word with the same, or nearest, meaning.
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'Colossal' just means 'very large' or 'gigantic': none of the other Answers offered that sense of disproportion
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'Home' can often mean the other ideas, but here the point is that Grandpa is BACK among his family
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Each of these may, in the right circumstances, be a synonym for 'light'; but in this situation, the food needs to be plain and non-rich, so Answer 4 seems the nearest approximation to the sense intended
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'Sink' may be the place in the kitchen where this might happen, but 'sink' in the verbal sense (rather than as a noun) means 'to drop, fall or drown' ... for which Answer 4 may not be perfect, but it's a lot nearer the sense than the others
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Experiences which are 'boring' leave us feeling (among other things) tired, yet probably with a sense of frustration at time passed but wasted, and little if anything achieved.
The sound of 'board' is an irrelevance here ... even if the committee table is made of a wooden plank, and Uncle Fred feels correspondingly rigid from sitting up at it for hours at a stretch |
She may well be running a riding establishment, but it is the steady income ('the bottom line') that's important. If the business is profitable as well, so much the better; but it may just be more or less 'jogging along' financially
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'Put' is quite close to the sense, but 'squeeze' is closest to the meaning of the original. Squashed sandwiches are nothing like as good as unsquashed ones, at least for most of us!
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Even with hair, combing is probably a more precise, detailed and painstaking process than brushing. The police will be looking in very close and careful detail for shoeprints, hair or anything else small but potentially important. If they 'sweep' or 'brush' the ground, vital fragments might be lost or moved beyond the point where they could offer useful evidence
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The outer two Answers are obviously related to a different sense of 'flies' (i.e. insects that buzz around, and broadly similar creatures); 'goes' is adequate but perhaps rather broad and vague; 'travels' (Answer 2) carries the better sense of organisation and purpose
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Of course, 'watch' (the timepiece on your wrist, probably) and 'watch' ( = 'see, concentrate on') are related words, some way back; but in this case, we are dealing with a verb rather than a noun. 'Sees' (Answer 2) would work, but it sounds a bit passive; 'follows' (Answer 4) at least carries the sense of the girl/woman keeping up actively and deliberately with the unfolding soap saga
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