Verbal Analogies 1

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Means/ tool: task) Master: slaves are persons and do not bear analogous relation. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Song: emotion exhibited) Hymn is a song of praise; dirge is a song of grief or mourning 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Substance: action) An emollient soothes; a dynamo generates. 

(personal attribute and conduct) Someone chary exhibits caution; someone imperturbable exhibits composure. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Uncharacteristic feature) An implacable person does not compromise; an honest person does not swindle. This pair exhibits the same relation as implacable: compromise. 

(Specialist: Field of specialization) Dermatologist is a specialist connected with skin. But oncology (study of cancer) is not related to joints, so it’s an odd pair and our correct answer too. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">Retreat is referred to as safe, quiet or secluded place. So both the words refer to the same thing. We have to look for dissimilar words. Heat and odor are quite different. Therefore, option (4) is the correct answer. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(collective noun: individual) A confluence is made of individual people. Similarly, macadam (meaning a path) is made up of individual cobbles (meaning gravel). 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Synonym) <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">'Gyrate' is a 'dance'. Similarly, 'throb' is a pulsation. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Noun: related adjective) <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">Blowhard is a boastful person. . But a highbrow is a snob, not embarrassed. The pair does not exhibit similar relation. Thus is the odd one and our answer. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Hindrance: <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold="">reparation)<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa=""> Obstacle is an obstruction in a path, while surmount is to overcome or conquer. In the same line expiate (make amends, atone for) is to overcome, conquer sin. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Beginning stage: Maturity) Nascent is the beginning stage and fruition is a coming to fulfillment stage. Similar relation is exhibited in embryonic and maturity. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Antonym) Cachinnation is to laugh and caterwail is to cry. Similarly, guffaw is to laugh and yammer is to cry. 

(Synonym variants of human nature) Concupiscence and salacious both denote lust and thereby are synonym pair, except that one is a noun and the other adjective. Option (1) perversion and lecher provide us with a suitable synonym pair. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Seasonal variants) Pluvial is rain like and vernal is spring like. We see the same relationship here. 

(Process of removal) Neutralization is the process of acid removal. Similarly, detoxification is the process of poison removal. 

(inapt form of action: action) When one maunders, one talks indistinctly or unclearly. Similarly when one scrawls, one writes quickly and messily. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Personal trait: behaviour) To have percipience (mental keenness) is to be reasonable. To have alacrity ( eager willingness) is to be prompt. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Living being: class) Spider belongs to category of organism called arachnid. Thus we have to find a related pair of organism and its category. We know that whale is a kind of mammal; hence the correct answer. 

(Device for playing game: game) Rook refers to a piece used in chess for playing. A similar relation can be made between cue and billiards as given in option (3), cue referring to a stick used in billiards to strike the cue ball. Therefore, option (3) is correct answer. 

(local: non-local) Endemic means native to a given land or area and Pandemic refers to a universal, general or prevalent over a whole area. Thus these two form an antonym pair. In the same line provincial: cosmopolitan presents antonyms of area or locale. Provincial refers to limited in area and cosmopolitan refers to prevalent over whole of area, universally applicable. Therefore, option (1) is a better match. 

(working place: person) Midwife is a person whose work is to help women in childbirth and lying in is a place where child takes birth. So lying in is a place where midwife can be found. Similarly corral is an enclosure used for holding or capturing horses; therefore option (1) bears similar relationship and is valid answer. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">(Adjective: verb resultant by adjective) Something that is cogent convinces; something that is repugnant repels. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">Both determinate and established mean 'fixed' or 'definite'. So the relation or bridge that can be applied here is synonym. An antonym pair is required for answer. Unsteadfast is not fixed and staunch is fixed, so an antonym pair as required by us for our answer. 

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">Redundance and superfluity both are conditions of excess in numbers than required. This is a synonym pair. This option provides us with an antonym pair. Scandalous is something infamous, disreputable, but normal is something not causing any scandal.