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 consists of a pair of words, which have a certain relationship with each other. Select one alternative from the given four, which bears the same relationship as the original pair of words does. Rank : Badges

  1. Person : Status

  2. Office : Designation

  3. Flag : Nation

  4. Medal : Honour
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(Second is indicative of the position/status of a person in terms of the first) The pair does not bear the same relation as the question pair of words. 

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question consists of a pair of words, which have a certain relationship with each other. Select one alternative from the given four, which bears the same relationship as the original pair of words does. Surplus : Deficit

  1. Famine : Scarcity

  2. Monsoon : Drought

  3. Need : Wage

  4. Breadth : Width
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(Antonyms) Surplus and deficit are antonyms. Similarly monsoon is opposite to draught, thus (2) is the correct answer.  

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question consists of a pair of words, which have a certain relationship with each other. Select one alternative from the given four, which bears the same relationship as the original pair of words does. Arena : Conflict

  1. Utopia : Place

  2. Asylum : Pursuit

  3. Mirage : Reality

  4. Forum : Discussion
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(First is a place meant for the second) Arena means any arena of conflict. Similarly forum is place for discussion. 

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question consists of a pair of words, which have a certain relationship with each other. Select one alternative from the given four, which bears the same relationship as the original pair of words does. Trailer : Picture

  1. Commercial : Product

  2. Edition : Novel

  3. Theatre : Play

  4. Truck : Cargo
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A trailer is a clip of a picture or a movie. Similarly, an edition is a single print of a book. 

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question consists of a pair of words, which have a certain relationship with each other. Select one alternative from the given four, which bears the same relationship as the original pair of words does. Aphorism : Sententious

  1. Maxim : Allegorical

  2. Adage : Symbolic

  3. Eulogy : Laudatory

  4. Criticism : Redundant
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(Second describes the nature of the first) As sententious means aphoristic, in the same way laudatory means eulogistic. 

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question consists of a pair of words, which have a certain relationship with each other. Select one alternative from the given four, which does not bear the same relationship as the original pair of words does. River : Ocean

  1. Child : School

  2. Lane : Road

  3. Book : Library

  4. Cloth : Body
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(First meets and ends into the second) As a river meets and ends into the ocean, similarly lane meets and ends into a road. 

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question consists of a pair of words, which have a certain relationship with each other. Select one alternative from the given four, which bears the same relationship as the original pair of words does. Religion : Ritual

  1. Belief : Practice

  2. Engine : Ignition

  3. Fire : Matches

  4. Possible : Impossible
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(Second is an activity based on the first one) Ritual is based on religion; similarly practice is based on belief. 

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is some relationship between the two groups on the left of : : and the same relationship is presented between the two groups on its right. Find the missing term.

ADE : FGJ : : KNO : ?

  1. PQR

  2. PQT

  3. RQP

  4. TPR
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The first and the third letters of the first group are each moved five steps forward, while the second letter is moved three steps forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group.

Multiple choice

Directions: There is some relation between the two terms on the left of the sign (: :). The same relation exists between the two terms on its right, of which one is missing. Find the missing term from the given options.

CLOSE : DNRWJ : : OPEN : ?

  1. PRHR

  2. PRJQ

  3. RPJB

  4. RZWR
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, …….. letters of the first group are moved one, two, three, four, five, …… steps forward (respectively) to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between the two given words on each side of (: :). Find the missing word which has the same relationship with the other word as that between the words of the other pair.

NOPQ : MLKJ : : HIJK : ?

  1. DEFG

  2. EFGH

  3. FEDC

  4. GFED

  5. GEFD
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The first, second, third and fourth letters of the first group are respectively moved one, three, five and seven steps backwards to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is some relationship between the two terms on the left of : : and the same relationship is present between the two terms on the right of : :. One term either to the right of : : or to the left of it is missing. Find the missing term from the given alternatives.

ASTN : ZTSO : : MSUB : ?

  1. LRRC

  2. LTTA

  3. NTVC

  4. LTTC
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The first and third letters of the first group are each moved one step backward, while the second and fourth letters are each moved one step forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group.