Related Words 4

Counting spaces will help you in this 11-plus verbal reasoning Related Words quiz! Get ready to count!

The alphabet is included in each question to help you. You need to work out a different code for each question. Sometimes you will have to find a match for a word by moving forward a number of spaces in the alphabet, and sometimes by moving backward. Count how many spaces there are between a code and its decoded word, and then carry out that same operation on your question. If you completed Related Words 3, you will know that occasionally there will be two calculations to make, for different letters in a word, so watch out for that, and also for words with more than four letters! Finally, enjoy Related Words quiz number 4, the last in this series. Just click on the link to get more Verbal Reasoning quizzes when you are done.

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The key to this code is to work out that each code letter is two spaces back in the alphabet. If L = J, then the code letter (J) has moved two spaces to the left of L, likewise if U = S then the code letter (S) is two spaces to the left of U. Working out the key allows us to work out any letter. If E is the code letter, then we know that it's two spaces to the left, so to get the answer, we must move two spaces to the right (G), likewise for M we must move two spaces to the right (O) and so on. Easy!

The code requires us to move 5 letters to the right each time. RNLI would have been a HAND-SOME answer, if you were a sailor! RNLI stands for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who operate the country's lifeboats

Did you manage to work out the code? It was tricky. The first letter went back one, but the second went forward one, the third went back one and the fourth went forward one. So E = F, J = I, U = V and F = E

Did you see that it had to begin with F, because the code letter was the same (L)? The code is 6 places to the right. If that didn't make it easy, maybe FINGER did. Lovely as fish fingers are, they have too many letters for this clue!

This wasn't so easy and if you spotted in the code that there are two of the letter I, then you may have realised it wasn't so straightforward! The code is forward 3, back 3, forward 3 and back 3. Now that you have completed the whole Related Words series, why not try out some of the other Verbal Reasoning quizzes?