Advanced Verbal Reasoning: Letter Pair Analogies
AZ is to BY as CX is to…? Professor Hoot shows how to treat each letter of a pair separately: the first letter moves forward one while the second moves back one, giving DW. Then solve BD is to FH as JL is to…?
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1:38Verbal Reasoning: Missing Three-Letter Words
In "Pip put the plates in the CUP__RD", three letters are missing, and they make a word of their own: BOA, making CUPBOARD. Pip the panda shows how to read the sentence for meaning first, then fill the gap. Then find the three letters missing from "Bruno went to the M__ET".
1:32Verbal Reasoning: Move One Letter to Make Two New Words
Move one letter from CLAMP to AND to make two new words. Momo the monkey tries each letter in turn: taking out the L leaves CAMP, and adding it to AND makes LAND. Learn that both new words must be real and the other letters stay in order, then solve STRIP and HOP yourself.