Verbal Analogies

Cutlery is a category of eating utensils, and a knife is a specific type of cutlery. The relationship is category:member. Furniture is a category of movable articles, and a chair is a specific type of furniture. Both pairs show a general category and a specific item within it.

Walk is the base action, while prowl is walking with stealthy, potentially predatory intent. The relationship is base action:intensified version with purpose. Listen is the base action, while eavesdrop is listening with secret intent to hear something one shouldn't. Both pairs show a basic action transformed by added purpose.

The relationship is complementary objects that work together. A plug fits into and works with a socket. Similarly, a key fits into and works with a lock. Both pairs represent matched pairs designed to function together.

The relationship is animal: periodic shedding process. Birds molt (shed feathers). Similarly, snakes slough (shed skin). Both are natural periodic shedding processes in animals.

The relationship is part: whole (apex point). A vertex is the top point of a pyramid. Similarly, a summit is the top point of a mountain. Both pairs represent the highest point of a structure.

The relationship is antonyms. Pejorative means negative or derogatory, while meliorative means positive or improving. Similarly, perfidy means treachery or distrust, while trust means faith or reliability. Both pairs represent opposite concepts.

The relationship is characteristic: defining quality. Idiosyncrasy is a distinctive characteristic of someone's style. Similarly, solecism is a distinctive characteristic of ungrammatical speech. Both show a trait and what it characterizes.

The relationship is word similarity with a size distinction. A fissure is a narrow crack, and fission is the splitting apart. Similarly, a crevice is a narrow crack, while a crevasse is a wider, deeper crack. Both pairs show related words with size differences.

Practical and idealistic both have possitive connotation, but are poles apart. Similarly, expedient and quixotic have same meanings, but the latter is over-doing of a thing.

Dry and soaked are extemely opposite to each other in meaning. Similarly, 'Anhydrous & Saturated' are also antonyms to each other.

Emloyees recieve wages for their work, while enterprenuers earn profits on their investments.

The first word shows the nature of the second word here. As 'deserts' are 'arid', similarly 'marshes' are 'sodden'.

This is the correct answer for this question. The first letter moves to the second position, second letter moves to the fourth position, third remains at its position and the last letter moves to the first position.

Polysemy is the association of one word with two or more distinct meanings. A polyseme is a word or phrase with multiple meanings. Adjective: polysemous or polysemic.