English - Verbal - 3

English – Verbal – 3

Analogy

In each of the following questions a pair of words are given that have certain relationship to each other. These words are followed by four other pair of words. Identify the pair of words from among the four that have similar relationship to the original pair of words.

1.    LIQUOR   :   INHALE                                                 2.   DEVOUT   :   PRAY

a)    Coffee      :   Sip                                                          a)   sincere      :    beg

b)    Bread       :   eat                                                          b)   dark           :   hate

c)    Clothes    :    wear                                                       c)   avid            :   love

d)    Snuff        :   drink                                                       d)   fervent       :   hop

3.    KNAVE    :   SCOUNDREL                                      4.   ENGAGING  :   WINSOME  

a)    Dumb      :    Mute                                                       a)   pretty          :    comely

b)    Effeminate :  rogue                                                    b)   lovely          :    lively

c)    Timid        :    loud                                                       c)   silly              :   egregious

d)    Cheat       :   murderer                                                d)   noisy            :   tenacious

5.   BRILLIANCE   :   MIND                                              6.   VIRTUE    :    RIDICULED

a)   generosity  :   kindness                                               a)   honesty     :    rewarded

b)   depth         :    imagination                                          b)   advances  :    spurned

c)   felicity        :    good fortune                                        c)   credit         :    discounted

d)   cruelty       :    savage                                                 d)   honour       :    tarnished

7.   TEMPTATION   :   RESIST                                       8.   KITH          :   KIN

a)   difficult      :      avoid                                                  a)   near          :   dear

b)   risky          :      escape                                               b)   myth          :   poem

c)   violence    :      erupt                                                   c)   friend         :   foe

d)   danger      :      avert                                                   d)   hip             :   joint

9.   PERFIDIOUS   :   LOYALTY                                     10. THINK       :   BROOD

a)   brave        :   courage                                                 a)   imagine     :   dream

b)   beggarly   :    jealousy                                                 b)   love           :   philander

c)   ingenuous :   wit                                                          c)   sin             :   larceny

d)   brazen      :    modesty                                                d)   plan           :   execute

Answers:

1.    (d)     2.   (d)     3.    (a)     4.    (a)     5.    (b)     6.    (d)     7.    (d)     8.    (a)

9.   (d)     10.     (a)

For each of the following words, four different spellings are given. Identify the correct spelling.

1.    a) Prieminence           b) Preemininence       c) Preeminence          d) Preminence

2.    a) Cinnamon               b) Cinamonn               c) Cinammon              d) Cinnammon

3.    a) Emmolient              b) Emollient                 c) Emolient                  d) Emolleint

4.    a) Dogerel                   b) Dogerrel                  c) Doggerel                 d) Doggerrel

5.    a) Myraid                     b) Myread                   c) Myriad                     d) Miriad

Answers:        1.  (c)       2.   (a)       3.     (b)        4.    (c)        5.     (c)