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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: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between two given letter groups on each side of : :. Find the missing letter group to make the same relationship on both sides.

QDXM : SFYN : : UIOZ : ?

  1. WKPA

  2. QNLA

  3. LPWA

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

The first two letters of the first group are each moved two steps forward and the last two letters are each moved one step forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between the two terms on each side of (: :). Find the missing term so that both the pairs have the same relationship.

QPRS : TUWV : : JIKL : ?

  1. MNOP

  2. MNPO

  3. NMOP

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

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

Multiple choice

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

FJUL : BOQQ : : LHRX : ?

  1. BKPR

  2. MNCC

  3. HRYY

  4. HMNC

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

The first and the third letters of the term are each moved four steps backwards, while the second and the fourth letters are each moved five steps forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second term.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of (: :) and one word is given on another side of (: :), while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear. Choose the correct alternative.

EJOT : VQLG : : BGLQ : ?

  1. AEIM

  2. AFKP

  3. YTOJ

  4. ZUPK
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Each letter of the first group occupies the same position from the beginning of the alphabet as the corresponding letter of the second group occupies from the end of the alphabet.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between two given letter groups on each side of : :. Find the missing letter group to make the same relationship on both sides.

QDXM : SFYN : : UIOZ : ?

  1. WKPA

  2. QNLA

  3. LPWA

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

The first two letters of the first group are each moved two steps forward and the last two letters are each moved one step forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between the two terms on each side of (: :). Find the missing term so that both the pairs have the same relationship.

QPRS : TUWV : : JIKL : ?

  1. MNOP

  2. MNPO

  3. NMOP

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

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

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of (: :) and one word is given on another side of (: :), while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear. Choose the correct alternative.

EJOT : VQLG : : BGLQ : ?

  1. AEIM

  2. AFKP

  3. YTOJ

  4. ZUPK
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Each letter of the first group occupies the same position from the beginning of the alphabet as the corresponding letter of the second group occupies from the end of the alphabet.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between 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.

JLNP : OMKI : : SUWY : ?

  1. FGHI

  2. MLKJ

  3. PLHD

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

Each letter of the first group is moved one step backward and the letter-group so obtained is then written in a reverse order to obtain the second group.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between 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.

? : DURXQG : : POLICE : SROLFH

  1. ARMOUR

  2. AROUND

  3. GROUND

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

Each letter of the first group is moved three steps forward to obtain the corresponding letter of the second group.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between 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.

COMPUTER: FQPRXVHT : : LANGUAGE : ?

  1. OXPIXDIG

  2. OCQICYIG

  3. OCQIXCJG

  4. OCQIXCIG

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

The letters at odd-numbered positions in the first group are each moved three steps forward while those at even-numbered positions are each moved two steps forward to obtain the corresponding letters of the second group.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of : : and on the another side of : : while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear. Choose the correct alternative.

Monday : Saturday : : Thursday : ?

  1. Sunday

  2. Tuesday

  3. Wednesday

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

Second is five days ahead of the first.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of : : and on the another side of : : while another word is to be found from the given alternatives having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear. Choose the correct alternative.

Disease : Medicine : : Famine : ?

  1. Clouds

  2. Rainfall

  3. Drought

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

Second helps to get rid of the first.