This is the third in our series of Eleven Plus Verbal Reasoning quizzes on Words with Multiple Meanings. By now you should be pretty good at picking a word which means the same as four others – even if they all mean different things!
Think of the word ‘tap’. It can mean the same as ‘valve’, ‘spout’, ‘stopcock’ or ‘faucet’. It can also mean a ‘listening device’, a ‘wire’ or a ‘bug’. But that’s not all. Here are some more synonyms for ‘tap’: drain, bleed, milk, pierce, draw off, exploit, knock, rap, strike, beat, drum, pat… the list goes on and on.
Improving your vocabulary by learning as many synonyms of other words as you can, will help improve your English and boost your chances when it’s time to take your exams.