English Language · Reasoning

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

Directions: The following question is based on VERBAL ANALOGIES. Select the alternative that exhibits a similar relationship as shown by the QUESTION PAIR.

STREAM : CRAYFISH

  1. Heaven : Planet

  2. Garden : Flower

  3. Ground : Mole

  4. Water : Fowl
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

As crayfishes (any of various families of small, usually freshwater decapods somewhat resembling little lobsters) are found in streams, similarly flowers bloom in garden. Hence, option (2) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question is based on VERBAL ANALOGIES. Select the alternative that exhibits a similar relationship as shown by the QUESTION PAIR.

AUTUMN : WITHER

  1. Fall : Digress

  2. Winter : Retreat

  3. Spring : Flower

  4. Season : Change
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

As autumn is a season of fall due to withering (to dry up, as from great heat, shrivel, esp. of plants) of plants, similarly, spring is a season of flowering. Hence, option (3) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: In each of these questions, choose the pair from the options that is similar in relationship to the one expressed in the given pair.

WRIST : WATCH ::

  1. Buckle : Belt

  2. Shoes : Socks

  3. Neck : Chain

  4. Cuff : Cufflinks
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The relationship is 'body part : accessory worn on it'. A watch is worn on the wrist, just as a chain is worn around the neck. Option B shows two items worn together (socks and shoes), not a body-part-accessory relationship. Option D shows related items (cuff and cufflinks), but the cuff is part of a shirt, not a body part. A buckle is part of a belt, not a separate accessory.

Multiple choice

Directions: In each of these questions, choose the pair from the options that is similar in relationship to the one expressed in the given pair.

SCULPTOR : CHISEL ::

  1. Time : Seconds

  2. Tailor : Needle

  3. Pathology : Disease

  4. Engineer : Site
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The relationship is 'professional : primary tool they use'. A sculptor uses a chisel as their primary working tool, just as a tailor uses a needle. Option B correctly shows this tool-user relationship. Time is measured in seconds (measurement:unit), pathology studies disease (field:subject), and an engineer works at a site (professional:workplace, not tool).

Multiple choice

Directions: In each of these questions, choose the pair from the options that is similar in relationship to the one expressed in the given pair.

CONSTELLATION : STAR ::

  1. Center : Circle

  2. Earth : Moon

  3. Rain : Water

  4. Archipelago : Islands
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A constellation is a group or collection of stars forming a pattern. Similarly, an archipelago is a group or collection of islands. The relationship is "collection : individual element". Center:Circle is part-to-whole reversed. Earth:Moon and Rain:Water don't show a collection-to-element relationship.

Multiple choice

The idea that the major portion of Earth would be submerged followed by a prolonged ice age as a result of global warming is implausible. Weather forecasters cannot dependably predict the next day’s weather. Yet the effects of the global warming on our planet’s structure and climate would follow the same physical laws that govern normal changes in the weather being predicted. If scientists cannot predict the day-to-day weather using our current knowledge, they certainly cannot predict the effects of global warming on Earth’s climate.

Which of the following statements would most seriously weaken the author’s conclusion?

  1. The theory predicting the effects on Earth being submerged by water causing return of ice age is based on studies that are readily available to weather forecasters.

  2. The effects of Earth being submerged will create drastic atmospheric changes rather than the type of day-to-day weather changes seen.

  3. Weather forecasters do not require predictions to be 100 percent accurate.

  4. Attempts to predict the effects of natural catastrophes such as global warming have been found to be less reliable than normal weather predictions.

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This answer shows that the inability to predict daily weather changes doesn’t indicate an inability to predict weather changes that would result from submergence of Earth as a result of global warming.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question four words are given, of which two words are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning. Find the two words which are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning and choose the number of the correct letter combination in your answer.

(P) affliction (Q) formulate (R) affection (S) concocted

  1. P-Q

  2. Q-S

  3. P-R

  4. P-S
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Both the words are similar. Formulate means to make up or concoct.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the given question, four words are given, of which two words are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning. Find the two words which are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning and choose the number of the correct letter combination as your answer. (P) soliloquy (Q) segregated (R) dialogue (S) disposition

  1. P-Q

  2. Q-S

  3. P-R

  4. P-S
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Both the words are antonyms. Soliloquy means the act of speaking to oneself and its antonym is dialogue.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the given question, four words are given, of which two words are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning. Find the two words which are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning and choose the number of the correct letter combination as your answer. (P) intoxicating (Q) materialistic (R) plethora (S) platonic

  1. P-Q

  2. Q-S

  3. P-R

  4. P-S
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Both the words are antonyms. Platonic means spiritual; free from materialistic desires.