Word meaning questions are designed to measure your vocabulary,
specifically your understanding of word meanings. To achieve this,
the questions focus on the relationships between words and the
questions are phrased such that you need to know the precise
meaning of the words given in order to select the correct answer.
These questions often use synonyms and antonyms (words which have
either the same or opposite meanings), dictionary definitions and
word pairs.
Another type of word meaning question uses words which sound
similar but have different meanings. These are called homophones
and an example would be the words 'allude’ and ‘elude’. ‘Allude’
means ‘referred’ and ‘elude’ means ‘escaped from’. Once again, the
test designer needs to choose common homophones which are in
regular use and this leaves a relatively restricted list to choose
from.
Improving your performance on these word meaning questions is
again straightforward. The Verbal Reasoning eBook available from this website contains all of the most commonly used words for this type of
test. If you work through these test papers then you will have a
list of words that you need to learn the precise meaning of. These
types of question appear in all levels of
verbal ability tests.
This sample question paper contains 40 questions and has
a suggested time limit of 10 minutes. The questions are
presented in Letter/A4 format for easy printing and self-marking.
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Verbal Ability
word meaning - Practice Test 1
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