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The CEM 11+ exam is known for including words that many students have not seen before. Some of these are unusual words from formal or literary English, while others are archaic words — words that were once common but are now rarely used in everyday speech. This lesson will prepare you for these trickier vocabulary questions.
CEM exams are designed to identify students with a wide vocabulary and strong reading skills. By including unusual or archaic words, the exam can tell the difference between students who read widely (novels, classic stories, non-fiction) and those who have a more limited vocabulary. The good news is that these words often appear in context, so you can use clues from the surrounding text to work out their meaning.
These words are not everyday vocabulary, but they appear regularly in challenging 11+ papers:
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