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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. MAUNDER : TALK

  1. Flaccid : Walk

  2. Scrawl : Write

  3. Lug : Yank

  4. Quill : Swim

  5. Wander : Squirm
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(inapt form of action: action) When one maunders, one talks indistinctly or unclearly. Similarly when one scrawls, one writes quickly and messily. 

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 capitalized pair.

PERCIPIENCE : REASONABLE

  1. Assistance : Benevolence

  2. Exacerbate : Mercurial

  3. Predilection : Brooding

  4. Alacrity : Prompt

  5. Diffidence : Distrust
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(Personal trait: behaviour) To have percipience (mental keenness) is to be reasonable. To have alacrity ( eager willingness) is to be prompt. 

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 capitalized pair. SPIDER : ARACHNID

  1. Man : Arthropod

  2. Centipede : Vertebrate

  3. Whale : Mammal

  4. Bat : Crustacean

  5. Lion : Pride
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(Living being: class) Spider belongs to category of organism called arachnid. Thus we have to find a related pair of organism and its category. We know that whale is a kind of mammal; hence the correct answer. 

Multiple choice

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.

ROOK : CHESS

  1. Carrom : Game

  2. Tennis : Court

  3. Cue : Billiards

  4. Word : Scrabble

  5. Foot soldier : General
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(Device for playing game: game) Rook refers to a piece used in chess for playing. A similar relation can be made between cue and billiards as given in option (3), cue referring to a stick used in billiards to strike the cue ball. Therefore, option (3) is correct answer. 

Multiple choice

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. ENDEMIC : PANDEMIC

  1. Provincial : Cosmopolitan.

  2. Micro : Macro

  3. Small : Diminutive

  4. Heighten : Intensify

  5. Panegyric : Diatribe
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(local: non-local) Endemic means native to a given land or area and Pandemic refers to a universal, general or prevalent over a whole area. Thus these two form an antonym pair. In the same line provincial: cosmopolitan presents antonyms of area or locale. Provincial refers to limited in area and cosmopolitan refers to prevalent over whole of area, universally applicable. Therefore, option (1) is a better match. 

Multiple choice

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. LYING-IN : MIDWIFE

  1. Corral : horse

  2. Restaurant : Fodder

  3. Woman : Gynecologist

  4. Abortion : Obstetrician

  5. Convalescence : Sanatorium
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(working place: person) Midwife is a person whose work is to help women in childbirth and lying in is a place where child takes birth. So lying in is a place where midwife can be found. Similarly corral is an enclosure used for holding or capturing horses; therefore option (1) bears similar relationship and is valid answer. 

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 capitalized pair.

COGENT : CONVINCE

  1. Irrational : Disturb

  2. Repugnant : Repel

  3. Dangerous : Avoid

  4. Eloquent : Refine

  5. Generous : Appreciate
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(Adjective: verb resultant by adjective) Something that is cogent convinces; something that is repugnant repels. 

Multiple choice

As a phenomenon, apart from what is underneath it all, this interest in ________ experience - or whatever one wants to call it - seems to be a kind of seed - ground from which certain unusual people aside from all the ________ and all the deceivers, certain Masters perhaps, may ________ up.

  1. <span style="font-size:">transcending, phoneyness, spring

  2. <span style="font-size:">trailing, shams, widen

  3. <span style="font-size:">undergoing, literals, hasten

  4. <span style="font-size:">exhibiting, officials, wave

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

'Spring up' for the last blank is the easiest clue. 'Phoneyness' matches with 'and all the deceivers '. 'Interest in … experience' can be 'transcending'.

Multiple choice

Under great handicaps - indeed with an appetite ________ by privation - the westering pioneer cherished the crumbs of book learning and culture.

  1. <span style="font-size:">imbued

  2. <span style="font-size:">whetted

  3. <span style="font-size:">tempted

  4. <span style="font-size:">intimidated

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

Option (2): The filler must be the one that stimulates learning because of great handicaps or deprivation. “Whet” meaning 'stimulate', fits in with appetite.

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 bears. Disabuse : Error

  1. Persevere : Dereliction

  2. Discredit : Reputation

  3. Rehabilitate : Addiction

  4. Belittle : Imperfection
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Disabuse means rid of false or error and discredit means lack of reputation, hence the pair shares the same relation. Hence 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. Muster : Crew

  1. Dismiss : Jury

  2. Cheer : Team

  3. Demobilise : Troops

  4. Convene : Committee
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Muster is a process to form a crew, but dismiss On the same line, convene is a process to form a committee; hence the pair bears the same relationship. Thus 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.

Animal : Zoology

  1. Body : Physiology

  2. Disease : Bacteriology

  3. Poems : Anthology

  4. Man : Philanthropy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Zoology is the branch of science which deals with the study of animals. Similarly, Physiology is the branch of science which deals with the study of human body.

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. Drawl : Speak

  1. Saunter : Walk

  2. Pare : Trim

  3. Scintillate : Flash

  4. Foster : Develop
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Drawl means to speak slowly. Similarly, saunter means to walk leisurely. Hence (1) is the correct answer.