Unit 10a analogies

Unit 10a analogies

Multiple Choice

Dialogue: soliloquy (speech to one’s self) :

Choose the words with the same relationship as the one above.

• altimeter (measures height): altitude

• colloquy (conversation): monologue

• aesthetics (principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art): graphics (the products of the graphic arts)

You're looking for a set of words that has to do with more than one of something: one of something

• altimeter and altitude have nothing to do with plurals

• a colloquy IS a conversation (dialogue) so those two words are synonyms and monologue and soliloquy are both delivered alone.

• aesthetics and graphics have nothing to do with plurals, either.

Multiple Choice

Domination: capitulation ::

Choose the set of words that have the same relationship as the above words.

• decapitate: recapitulate

• pedagogue (strict teacher): pedestrian

• rule: surrender

If you DOMINATE someone, then will be forced to CAPITULATE to you.

• If you decapitate someone, they definitely won't be able to summarize things for you.

• A strict teacher doesn't have anything to do with someone who walks.

• If you RULE someone, they will have to SURRENDER to you.

Multiple Choice

Aesthetics: ethics (moral principles that govern a person's behavior)

Which word set best relates to the words above?

• convert: revert

• sacrosanct (sacred): sacred

• art: morals

Aesthetics deals with ART and ethics deal with MORALS. They're both nouns.

• convert and revert are both verbs. They have nothing to do with art and morals.

• sacrosanct and sacred are synonyms for each other, but have nothing to do with art and morals.

Multiple Choice

Ethnologist: ethnic group::

Find the word sets that match the ones above.

• entomologist (scientist who studies insects): altimeter

• paleontologist: T. Rex

• cryptologist: cryptogram

An ETHNOLOGIST studies an ETHNIC GROUP just like

• someone who studies insects wouldn't have a use for an altimeter

• A paleontologist DEFINITELY studies old things, like dinosaurs (T. Rexes)

• A cryptologist deals with information, not puzzles. (Although those puzzles DO have hidden meanings, so I understand if you chose it for that reason).