ANALOGY

ANALOGY

Prepared by: Ms. Ellainne Mae Jy Jumalon

ANALOGY QUESTIONS

Help you prepare for the verbal and reasoning sections of many assessment and entrance exams. By completing the exercises in

this section, you will develop the skills necessary to tackle each type of analogy question.

ANALOGY QUESTIONS

Many standardized tests—including high school entrance exams, the SATs, civil service exams, the GREs, and others—use analogy questions to test both logic and reasoning skills and word knowledge.

These questions ask test takers to identify relationships between pairs of words. In order to solve analogy questions, you must first have a clear understanding of the words’ definitions and then use that understanding to determine how the words are related.

ANALOGY QUESTIONS

Analogy questions are often described as “blank is to blank as blank is to blank.” So for example, puppy : dog :: kitten : ______, is read

“puppy is to dog as kitten is to blank.” The answer is, of course, “cat.”

However, the “blank is to blank” format does not really answer the

question precisely. More accurately, you might describe the relationship between puppy and dog as “a puppy is a young dog.” To determine the missing word, you might say “a kitten is a young . . . ” The key to solving an analogy question is to precisely describe the relationship between the pair of words and then apply the same relationship to determine which word completes the analogy.

ANALOGY PAIRED APPROACH TEST

Each item consists of a pair of words which relate to each other in a certain way.

Multiple Choice

______ : trail :: grain : grail

• train

• path

• wheat

• holy

Multiple Choice

particular : fussy :: ______ : subservient

• meek

• above

• cranky

• uptight

Multiple Choice

______ : horse :: board : train

• stable

• shoe

• . ride

• mount

Multiple Choice

tureen : ______ :: goblet : wine

• napkin

• soup

• spoon

• pilsner

Multiple Choice

4 : 6 :: ______ : 16

• 2

• 14

• 8

• 10

Multiple Choice

son : nuclear :: ______ : extended

• father

• mother

• cousin

• daughters

Multiple Choice

coif : hair :: ______ : musical

• shower

• close

• praise

• score

Multiple Choice

feta : Greek :: provolone : ______

• salad

• . Swiss

• blue

• Italian

Multiple Choice

moccasin : snake :: ______ : shoe

• alligator

• waders

• asp

• . loafer

Multiple Choice

______ : zenith :: fear : composure

• . apex

• heaven

• heights

• nadir

Multiple Choice

pill : bore :: core : ______

• . center

• mug

• bar

• placebo

Multiple Choice

. pilfer : steal :: ______ : equip

• return

• damage

• exercise

• furnish

Multiple Choice

native : aboriginal :: naïve : ______

• learned

• arid

• unsophisticated

• tribe

Multiple Choice

junket : ______ :: junk : trash

• trounce

• . trip

• refuse

• trinket

Multiple Choice

______ : festive :: funeral : somber

• tension

• soiree

• eulogy

• sari

Multiple Choice

fetish : fixation :: slight : ______

• flirt

• sloth

• insult

• confuse

Multiple Choice

hovel : dirty :: hub : ______

• unseen

• prideful

• busy

• shovel

Multiple Choice

bog : ______ :: slumber : sleep

• dream

• foray

• . marsh

• night

Multiple Choice

______ : segue :: throng : mass

• subway

• church

• transition

• line

Multiple Choice

ragtime : United States :: raga : ______

• cloth

• country

• piano

• India

Multiple Choice

miserly : cheap :: homogeneous : ______

• extravagant

• unkind

• alike

• friendly

Multiple Choice

skew : gloomy :: slant : ______

• . glee

• foible

• desperate

• . gloaming

Multiple Choice

eider : ______ :: cedar : tree

• snow

• plant

• duck

• pine

Multiple Choice

gerrymander : divide :: filibuster : ______

• bend

• punish

• delay

• rush

Multiple Choice

vapid : ______ :: rapid : swift

• inspired

• turgid

• wet

• . insipid

Multiple Choice

denim : cotton :: ______ : flax

• sheep

• uniform

• sweater

• linen

Multiple Choice

obscene : coarse :: obtuse : ______

• subject

• obstinate

• obscure

• stupid

Multiple Choice

. diamond : baseball :: court : ______

• poker

• . jury

• grass

• squash

Multiple Choice

quixotic : pragmatic :: murky : ______

• rapid

• cloudy

• . clear

• friendly

Multiple Choice

smear : libel :: heed : ______

• represent

• doubt

• consider

• need

Multiple Choice

nymph : ______ :: seraphim : angel

• maiden

• sinner

• candle

• priest

Multiple Choice

poetry : rhyme :: philosophy : ______

• imagery

• . music

• bi-law

• theory

Multiple Choice

jibe : praise :: ______ : enlighten

• jib

• delude

• worship

• wed

Multiple Choice

marshal : prisoner :: principal : ______

• teacher

• president

• doctrine

• student

Multiple Choice

fecund : infertile :: ______ : fleet

• rapid

• slow

• fertilizer

• damp

REMEMBER

• Basic Knowledge

• Logic

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