This is the first in this section of our Eleven Plus Verbal Reasoning quizzes on Words That Cannot be Made from Larger Words. What is that exactly? Well, you’ll be relieved to hear, it’s probably the easiest type of question you will have to face when you come to take your exam.
Basically, you’ll be shown a long word and then four shorter ones. You have to find which one of those cannot be made from the letters in the longer one. Remember, you can only use each letter the same amount of times as it appears in the first word.
If that is not clear, then take a look at the example question we’ve placed at the beginning of the quiz. It shows you exactly how to go about solving these problems.
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All of the words can be made, except for ‘column’ as this contains a letter ‘N’, but ‘camouflage’ does not
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All of the words can be made, except for ‘failed’ as this contains a letter ‘I’, but ‘falsehood’ does not
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All of the words can be made, except for ‘atomic’ as this contains a letter ‘M’, but ‘incubator’ does not
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All of the words can be made, except for ‘slander’ as this contains a letter ‘A’, but ‘lederhosen’ does not.
‘Lederhosen’ are leather shorts, traditionally worn in Switzerland and Bavaria |
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All of the words can be made, except for ‘session’ as this contains a letter ‘N’, but ‘obsessive’ does not
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All of the words can be made, except for ‘inferno’ as this contains two of the letter ‘N’, but ‘reconfirm’ has only one
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All of the words can be made, except for ‘bauble’ as this contains two of the letter ‘B’, but ‘umbrella’ has only one.
‘Rubella’ is another name for German measles, and ‘lumbar’ refers to the lower back |
All of the words can be made, except for ‘holly’ as this contains two of the letter ‘L’, but ‘xylophone’ has only one
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All of the words can be made, except for ‘steadies’ as this contains two of the letter ‘S’, but ‘advertised’ has only one.
A ‘sedative’ is a drug which makes people sleepy |
All of the words can be made, except for ‘gleaning’ as this contains two of the letter ‘N’, but ‘delegating’ has only one.
‘Gleaning’ means obtaining information, ‘gelatine’ is boiled-down cattle skins, horns, and bones which we use to make jelly, and if something is ‘negated’ it is made ineffective |