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Verbal Analogies

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Test your reasoning abilities with these verbal analogies questions focused on identifying word relationships. The exercises require finding pairs that share similar logical or semantic connections. This section is a crucial part of the verbal ability and reasoning tests in many competitive exams.

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Verbal Analogies Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Celibate : Lecherousness

  2. Agitator : Pogrom

  3. Buccaneer : Greed

  4. Virtuoso : Practice

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 The lead pair is a set of antonymous words: a crafty person lacks simplicity and strightforwardness. Similarly lecherousness is a trait extraneous to and opposite of the nature of a celibate (a person who indulges in abstinence).

Multiple choice
  1. Supercilious : Disdainful

  2. Prodigal : Spendthrift

  3. Pimp : Panderer

  4. Hermetic : Prurient

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

 A pair of antonyms. Idyllic represents a pastoral laid-back approach. Frenzied or agitaed will be the opposite. Likewise, hermetic represents abstinence while prurient represents not only indulgene but also lewdness. 

Multiple choice
  1. Preordained : Predict

  2. Inevitable : Avoid

  3. Trite : Erase

  4. Uncomfortable : Persuade

  5. Loquacious : Speak

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Incorrigible means incapable of being reformed. The relationship is 'adjective that describes something that cannot be [verb]ed'. Inevitable means something that cannot be avoided. Thus, 'Inevitable : Avoid' fits the pattern.

Multiple choice
  1. Awestruck : Dignity

  2. Sophomoric : Dedication

  3. Sedulous : Perserverance

  4. Frightened : Timidity

  5. Passive : Aggression

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Uncouth means lacking refinement. The relationship is 'adjective describing a lack of a noun'. Passive means lacking aggression. This fits the pattern of a trait and its corresponding absence.