Word formation

As the name suggests, it is forming a meaningful word from the given question. Along with verbal knowledge it also tests candidate’s logical skills. It can be difficult for those who are not good with spellings. But with enough hard work and practice, everyone can solve this section easily. Before solving the questions you need to know what different types of word formations are asked in the exams.

Different Types

Though the process involves the same; judging the right word from the given jumbled letters, yet, we must be aware with other different types of possible variations that are asked in this sections. Let’s discuss some of them.

Type-I
Sometimes jumbled letters are given followed by some numbers. In the options, there will be four possible structures of numbers. One of them will indicate a meaningful word. You have to choose that option as your answer. Let’s take an example.

Question −Consider the following arrangement of letters with their respective numbers. Choose the best option the structure of which describes a meaningful word.

E M L E P T
1  2 3  4 5 6

A - 612534
B - 623154
C - 234561
D - 123456
Explanation − We can clearly see that only the structures of numbers given in option A gives rise to a meaningful word.

Type –II
In this type, whole series of alphabets will be given in a series of two rows. Some statements will be given that will direct the student to choose letters from that series and design a meaningful word out of that. Let’s take an example to understand it.

Question −Consider the following arrangement  −
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Take the middle and left most 1st letter of the 1st row. Similarly take the middle and 2nd letter from the left end of the 2nd row. Form a word that will indicate the category of an animal. Mark the first letter of that word as your answer.
A - G
B - A
C - M
D - P
Explanation − In the first series that is present from A-M, the left most 1st letter is A and the in the series of 13 letters, the middle letter is G. Similarly in the 2nd row, the middle letter is T and the 2nd left side letter is O.
Now as we have got the letters, we have to design a word that indicates the name of an animal. With possible structures of letters, we can arrive at the word GOAT. Now here the first letter is G and hence; option A is our answer.

Type-III
In this type of category, we will discuss about those cases in which the answer will be asked in terms of “X”, where X may be the first or last letter of the formulated word or may be something else as directed by the questioner. Let’s take an example to understand it in a better way.

Question −Rearrange the following jumbled letters ”NKEAS” to get a meaningful word that will indicate the name of an animal and the first letter of that word will be X. Mark the correct option that describes X well.
A - A
B - K
C - S
D - None of these
Explanation − The correct arrangement will lead to the word “Snake” and its first letter is X. Hence; the value of X will be S i.e. Option C.

Words Formed by Unscrambling the Letters

Type I: For the word RAVSTE, what will be the correct order of words so that a meaningful word can be formed.

Here based on the word the numerical values assign to them are, R is 1, A = 2, V = 3, S = 4, T = 5, E = 6. From the words available the only possible word that can be formed is starve. For the word formed the correct order will 452132.

Type II: Finding the odd one out.
In this type of questions, random letter in the form of words is given. We have to unscramble these letters and then form a word. After all the words are formed we have to find the odd word out.
A. WKLA
B. UNR
C. UPJM
D. PEELS

Explanation − When you unscramble the above words the following words will be formed.
WKLA will be walk, UNR will be run, UPJM will be jump, and PEELS will be sleep. So, four words are formed. Now, out of all the words sleep is the odd one out. Because all the words are some sort of activity and only is not. So the correct answer is PEELS.

Type III: Find the meaning of the word after unscrambling it.
Here first you have to unscramble the given group of letters and form a meaningful word. After that, you need to match its meaning from the words given in the options.

T G D L I E N I

A. Fast
B. Laborious
C. Hard
D. Intelligent

Explanation −The unscramble word from the given letters will be diligent which means hard-working. And the closest meaning from the options is laborious.

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