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Do the crossword. What’s the hidden word?

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Candidates are given a sentence in which a four-letter word is hidden between two words. The two words will always be next to each other. It is then up to them to find the pair of words and select the correct answer from the multiple-choice options.

Be aware of what format the answer needs to be presented in. Most papers don’t want the word that has been hidden – they want the two words in which the word has been hidden.

Example Question One

In this sentence a four-letter word is hidden at the end of one word and the beginning of the next. Find the pair of words that contains the hidden word.

The beautiful lady sat on her chair elegantly.

We are looking for a four-letter word, hidden between two of the words. Let’s explore the possible answers by imagining what would be visible if we covered up certain letters:

Firstly, ‘theb’ and ‘ebea’ are not words.

Secondly, although ‘hebe’ is a species of flower (and occasionally a girl’s name) and my fellow gardeners may realise this, it certainly isn’t the sort of word that will be used in a test such as this. Even as I write this on a computer, the red line has shown under ‘hebe’ and I may get some bemused looks if I were to use it in a word game amongst other adults.

The answers are always words which a bright child would recognise, even if they couldn’t explain their meaning accurately. There is no trickery in this sort of question and the setter is usually not as interested in testing vocabulary as testing adaptability.

Having failed to make sense with the first two words, we move to the second and third.

The answer here is clearly ‘beautiful lady’ as the word ‘full’ is hidden between them.

Example Question Two

In this sentence a four-letter word is hidden at the end of one word and the beginning of the next. Find the pair of words that contains the hidden word.

A bit later, my alarm sounded.

The first combination of words can only be ‘abit’ which is not a word.

The second and third words give a full three options (‘bitl’, ‘itla’ and ‘tlat’) but none of them are legitimate words, so on we go to the third and fourth words.

‘Term’ can be formed with the letters from ‘later’ and ‘my’, so this is the correct answer.

Be aware that ‘late’ is not an answer as it is not formed from two words. Make sure that your child understands that the word must be hidden between two others.

Sample Tests

Once your child has learned the technique to solving this sort of question, then they should not have any difficulties. It requires a methodical approach which s best learned through practice.

To help your child master Hidden Words, there are four quizzes on the Education Quizzes site devoted specifically to this type of question. Show them the technique you’ve learned here as you look at the example given at the start of each quiz, then let them try all forty questions to see how well they fare.

You’ll find the quizzes in our Eleven Plus Verbal Reasoning section or, alternatively, you can follow these links:

Hidden Word 1

Hidden Word 2

Hidden Word 3

Hidden Word 4

As ever, the more familiar your child becomes with finding hidden words, the better prepared they will be for the exam. Good luck!

Hidden word clues are less common in cryptics — a typical cryptic may just have one or two — but they are so nice and easy (which is why they’re often in short supply in cryptics!), I thought it would be good to cover them early in the piece. If you can find the hidden word clues in a cryptic, they are a good way to get something entered into the grid, which in turn will help you get a handle on the other clues.

So, why are these clues so easy? Well, the answer to the clue is actually staring you in the face, within the clue! OK, the setter has no doubt tried their best to hide the fact that the answer is right there in front of you, in plain view. So they can be tricky to spot sometimes, but they are basically a very easy clue device.

As with many other types of cryptic clues, hidden word clues have indicator words. These are words that tell you that the answer is within the letters of the clue. so words which give a sense of containment, insertion, or concealment can indicate a hidden word clue. Here are a few examples:

Now that you’ve got a little idea about the mechanics of a hidden word clue, let’s see what a real one looks like:

Herb’s buried in a filthy meadow (5)

No need to mourn poor Herb … In this clue, buried in is the hidden word indicator. Herb is the definition (and it’s not a name). Where is the name of a herb buried? In a filthy meadow, of course. Did you spot it? Yes, the answer is THYME (filTHY MEadow).

Here’s another example:

Pilfer a bit of waste alexandrite (5)

 The hidden word indicator here is a bit of. The definition part of the clue is pilfer. Luckily, you don’t need to know anything about gemstones to solve this clue … the answer’s right in front of your eyes, within waste alexandrite. You know the answer is 5 letters long, so you can scan through the letters of waste alexandrite, in sets of 5. I’m sure you got it — waSTE ALexandrite. Easy!

Explanations

These are quite straightforward clues, so the explanations aren’t long!

Answers

1. EGO
2. APES
3. FUN
4. MAT
5. HEAT

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