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Verbal Reasoning - Complete the Word 4

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Verbal Reasoning - Complete the Word 4

This English Language quiz is called 'Verbal Reasoning - Complete the Word 4' and it has been written by teachers to help you if you are studying the subject at middle school. Playing educational quizzes is a fabulous way to learn if you are in the 6th, 7th or 8th grade - aged 11 to 14.

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This is the last of our four middle school verbal reasoning 'Complete-the-Word' quizzes: if you've done the others, you should already have a fair idea how this works. Each sentence contains an unfinished word in CAPITALS; you have to pick which other three-letter word fits into it, somewhere, so that it makes full and clearer sense.

When looking at each answer, remember that two of the same vowels are rarely next to each other. In addition some consonants don't often sit together ~ for example PC, HW or VB. Other consonants ~ such as ST, CH and DR ~ are regularly found next to each other.

The more you work (and play) with letters and words, the better (and quicker) you will be at spotting the correct answers.

1.
Our first few examples each offer you a choice of liquids ...

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
Tea usually tastes best if you make it with fresh BING water.
TEA
OIL
INK
TAR
The water should be bOILing ... but then you need to let it brew, and cool, before drinking any
2.
Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
The first railroad engines and farm tractors were all powered by SM.
OAK
OIL
TEA
TAR
They were sTEAm engines, although of course their fireboxes also produced smoke (but that isn't spelled sm-OAK, unfortunately)
3.
Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
I could tell you about certain places where you pay good money, yet the tea or coffee is almost always UNDRABLE.
TEA
POT
OIL
INK
'If all the sea were paper and all the sea were ink,
And all the trees were bread-and-cheese,
What should we have to drINK?'
4.
Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
The heaviest thing I was carrying after my trip to the market was a great big fresh CABE.
POT
BAG
HIT
LAP
For once, the BAG is in the cabBAGe ... rather than the other way round!
5.
Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
Once you've had a little practice at skating, you should find you glide along quite NLY.
FOG
ICE
RAT
FLY
No skater would get very far without some ICE (so that they slip along nICEly)
6.
Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
According to the police, a surprisingly large number of people were involved in PTING the crime.
ROB
LIE
LOT
TEN
Yes, there were a LOT of pLOTters
7.
Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
When pet owners go away on holiday there are usually COMPLIIONS.
PET
CAT
DOG
OWL
Trust the CAT to get involved in the compliCATions
8.
Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
If the animal is STY, it is presumably either a tiger or a zebra.
PIG
HOG
SOW
RIP
You may have been put-off by the suggestion of a pigsty, but the animals mentioned in the Question are both stRIPy
9.
Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
This magnificent boar looks likely to be the CPION at the Farmers' Show next week.
HOG
HAM
SOW
PIG
He may be a magnificent beast and potential cHAMpion ... but we can all guess what the butcher will make of him eventually, however sadly.
(Apologies to any readers who prefer, on whatever point of principle, to avoid the meat of pigs in any shape or form ... )
10.
Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
They have made a COMMENLE effort to get the big new building to blend into its surroundings.
RAY
COD
DAB
MAN
The effort was commenDABle ... and so has yours been, we hope!
Author:  Ian Miles

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