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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

Directions: The question has a pair of capitalised words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

GREENHOUSE : PLANT

  1. Refrigerator : Milk

  2. Well : Water

  3. Orchard : Fruit

  4. Incubator : Infant

  5. Tank : Fuel
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

 (Place for protection) Greenhouse is the protective housing for delicate little plants; incubator is the protective housing for delicate infants.

Multiple choice

Directions: The question has a pair of capitalised words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

DESPOTIC : TYRANNY

  1. Authoritarian : Superiority

  2. Skillful : Celebrity

  3. Generous : Liberality

  4. Suspect : Illegality

  5. Peaceful : Benevolence
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

 (Act and effect) Despotic acts are tyrannical; generous acts are liberal.

Multiple choice

Directions: The question has a pair of capitalised words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

GENERAL : ADMIRAL

  1. Squadron : Platoon

  2. Artillery : Station Officer

  3. Solider : Sailor

  4. Captain : Officer

  5. Director : Manager
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

 (Land force: Naval force) A general is a military leader of soldiers who operate mainly on land; an admiral is a military leader whose troops operate mainly on the sea. Similarly, a solider is based mainly on land, while a sailor is based mainly on the sea.

Multiple choice

Directions: The question is a pair of CAPITALISED words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

CLUE : DETECTIVE

  1. Award : Contender

  2. Election : Contestant

  3. Space : Astronaut

  4. Riches : Prospector

  5. Will : Testator
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(Person and goal) A detective looks for clues; a prospector looks for riches. (A contender looks for reward, not award.)

Multiple choice

Directions: The question is a pair of CAPITALISED words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

GONG : HAMMER

  1. Organ : Pedal

  2. Oboe : Reed

  3. Handle : Pliers

  4. Drum : Drumstick

  5. Dulcimer : Chord
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

 (Musical instrument played with a bang) A gong is played by being struck with a hammer; a drum is played by being struck with a drumstick.

Multiple choice

Directions: The question has a pair of capitalised words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

ACTOR : SCRIPT

  1. Architect : Design

  2. Painter : Mural

  3. Musician : Score

  4. Guide : Tourist

  5. Lecturer : Text Book
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

 (Person and the things/he works upon) An actor's performance is guided by a script, which is a written account of her part in the play. Similarly, musician's performance is guided by the score, which is the written music she follows when playing a piece.

Multiple choice

Directions: The question has a pair of capitalised words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

BALDACHIN : ROOM

  1. Ceiling : Price

  2. Sidewalk : Trail

  3. Quasar : Sky

  4. Palisade : Range

  5. Palate : Mouth
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

(top of an enclosure) Baldachin (meaning ceiling) is the upper part of the room. Palate is the upper part of the mouth. 

Multiple choice

Directions: The question has a pair of capitalised words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

CAVIL : SOLECISM

  1. Perjury : Testimony

  2. Eminence : Opprobrium

  3. Caprice : Inkling

  4. Quirk : Dereliction
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(degree of negative human trait) Solecism (violation of rules, etiquette) is a higher degree of cavil (trivial fault finding) .On the same lines, dereliction (meaning a fault or a wrong doing) is a higher degree of quirk (meaning a small fault). Thus option (4) is correct option choice. 

Multiple choice

Directions: The question has a pair of capitalised words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

RAVE : ANGER

  1. Quail : Fear

  2. Fret : Calm

  3. Ebullient : Glad

  4. Burnish : Embarrass

  5. Boast : Humour
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(expression: feeling) One raves (meaning talks incoherently or wildly) in anger. Similarly, one quails (meaning shrinks back) in fear. 

Multiple choice

Directions: The question has a pair of capitalised words followed by five pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.

PRY : INQUIRY

  1. Importune : Implore

  2. Thwart : Obstacle

  3. Upbraid : Tacit

  4. Disconcert : Overture

  5. Try : Effort
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(Disgraceful manner: conduct) Pry means to make an inquiry in an annoying manner. Similarly, importune means to beg (implore) or request in an annoying manner. 

Multiple choice

Directions: The question has a pair of capitalised words followed by five pairs of words. Select the alternative that does not exhibit the relationship as the question pair.

FAUX PAS : GAFFE

  1. Error : Howler

  2. Condone : Forgive

  3. Latent : Patent

  4. Show : Flaunt

  5. Simper : Guffaw
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(synonyms) Both faux pas and gaffe represent blunder and are a synonym pair. We have to look for an antonym pair. Latent (hidden, invisible) and patent (open to all, evident) form an antonym pair. Therefore, option (3) is the correct answer.