Practice MCQ Questions and Answer on Verbal Analogies

11.

Select the pair which has the same relationship.
MUNDANE:SPIRITUAL

• (A) common:ghostly
• (B) worldly:unworldly
• (C) routine:novel
• (D) secular:clerical

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 Mundane is antonym of spiritual and worldly is antonym of unworldly.

12.

Select the pair which has the same relationship.
LIGHT:BLIND

• (A) speech:dumb
• (B) language:deaf
• (C) tongue:sound
• (D) voice:vibration

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 Absence of Light will make Blind and absence of Speech will make Dumb.

13.

Select the pair which has the same relationship.
GRAIN:SALT

• (A) shard:pottery
• (B) shred:wood
• (C) blades:grass
• (D) chip:glass

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 Salt consists of grains and glass is made up of chips.

14.

Select the pair which has the same relationship.
DIVA:OPERA

• (A) producer:theatre
• (B) director:drama
• (C) conductor:bus
• (D) thespian:play

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 Diva (woman singer) plays a leading role in an opera(musical play). Similarly, thespian(actor) plays a leading role in a play.

15.

Select the pair which has the same relationship.
CORPOREAL:SPIRITUAL

• (A) mesa:plateau
• (B) moron:savant
• (C) foreigner:immigrant
• (D) pedagogue:teacher

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 Corporeal is antonym of spiritual. Similarly, moron is antonym of savant.

16.

Select the pair which has the same relationship.
HOPE:ASPIRES

• (A) love:elevates
• (B) film:flam
• (C) fib:lie
• (D) fake:ordinary

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 Hope when gets matured it becomes Aspires. Similarly, fib (little falsehood) when gets matured it becomes lie. So, Hope : Aspires, Fib : Lie.

17.

Select the pair which has the same relationship.
AFTER:BEFORE

• (A) first:second
• (B) present:past
• (C) contemporary:historic
• (D) successor:predecessor

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 After means succeeding(take over) something and before means preceding(previous or prior) something. Similarly, successor is the one that comes after something while predecessor comes before something. Hence the closest relation is successor:predecessor.

18.

Select the pair which has the same relationship.
GRAVITY:PULL

• (A) iron:metal
• (B) north pole:directions
• (C) magnetism:attraction
• (D) dust:desert

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 Pull is the property of gravity. Similarly, attraction is the property of magnetism.