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That sounds even more amenable to that problem (if the items are the same in all editions of the test): if employers started to use such a test to sort prospective employees, within a year applicants would probably start memorizing those particular 10 words and >80% of them would ace the test.
The words are not always the same. They are selected from a standard wordbank.
From what I've seen in certain similar situations, some people would prepare for such a test by trying to memorize every single word in the wordbank, even if there are several thousands of them; OTOH, if the bank is large enough, then the extent to which they'd manage to do that would probably correlate with IQ strongly enough. (Unless some candidates use SRSs and other don't.)