Verbal Section: Analogy
Directions:
Each of the GRE sample analogy questions below consists of two words that have a certain relationship to each other, followed by five lettered pairs of related words. Select the lettered pair of words.
Following are some GRE sample analogy questions.
- FOOTBALL : GRIDIRON
- wrestling : mat
- court : tennis
- bowling : floor
- rugby : arena
- baseball : diamond
Ans : E
- EXPURGATE : PASSAGE
- abridge : text
- filter : water
- irritate : wound
- burn : book
- cancel : plan
Ans : B
- IMPECUNIOUS : HOVEL
- progress : prosper
- mendicant : evasion
- prosperity : poverty
- mendacious : cringe
- affluent : mansion
Ans : E
- APIARY : BEE
- museum : painting
- dam : water
- arboretum : tree
- forum : speech
- planetarium : star
Ans : C
- SAND PAPER : ABRASIVE
- gasoline : refined
- grativity : irritant
- polish : floors
- acrylic : emulsion
- oil : lubricant.
Ans : E
- DIAPHANOUS : CACOPHONOUS
- translucent : transparent
- transparent : noisy
- sheer : opaque
- harmonious : discordant
- twofold : multiple.
Ans : B
- INFANCY : SENILITY
- january : October
- incipient : critical
- day : night
- conclusion : climax
- dawn : dusk.
Ans : E
- RIG : CONTEST
- solve : conundrum
- predict : race
- repudiate : thesis
- gerrymander : district
- incriminate : evidence
Ans : D
- ARBORETUM : TREES
- aviary : birds
- greenhouse : garden
- museum : painters
- grove : forest
- zoo : range
Ans : D
- BULLET : BARREL
- fame : films
- train : track
- idea : brain
- plane : clouds
- water : boat
Ans : B
- PARENTHESIS : EXPLANATION
- ellipsis : omission
- asterisk : exaggeration
- synopsis : affectation
- apostrophe : annotation
- synthesis : interpolation
Ans : A
- CENSUS : POPULATION
- manifest : debts
- roster : audience
- itinerary : journeys
- inventory : merchandise
- state : incumbents
Ans : D
- STANZA : POEM
- mimicry : pantomime
- duet : chorus
- act : opera
- rhyme : verse
- pirouette : ballet
Ans : C
- EXHORT : SUGGEST
- conspire : plan
- tamper : adjust
- crave : accept
- goad : direct
- instruct : teach
Ans : D
- ALACRITY : APATHETIC
- compliance : deft
- temerity : timid
- despotism : arrogant
- candor : bungling
- tenacity : eager
Ans : B
- FIRE : STORM
- whale : minnow
- speech : shout
- plant : flower
- wind : temperature
- tornado : hurricane
Ans : E
- COLLUSION : CONSPIRATORS
- identification : arbitrators
- co-operation : partners
- conclusion : messengers
- revision : corespondents
- attribution : interpreters
Ans : B
- CYNOSURE : BRILLIANT
- word : common
- student : attentive
- rock : large
- magnet : attractive
- map : legible
Ans : D
- PLEBISCITE : UKASE
- lack : abundance
- vote : musical instrument
- cancel : construct
- public : ruler
- written : oral
Ans : D
- MENDICANT : IMPECUNIOUS
- hat : askew
- liar : poor
- complainer : petulant
- critic : quizzical
- philanthrophist : prodigal.
Ans : C
Directions:
Each of the GRE sample analogy questions below consists of two words that have a certain relationship to each other, followed by five lettered pairs of related words. Select the lettered pair of words.Following are some GRE sample analogy questions.
- RELAPSE : CONVALESCENCE
- dissonance : harmony
- feudalism : industrialization
- repetition : monotony
- impasse : debate
- recidivism : rehavbilitation.
Ans : E
- AMBULATORY : BEDRIDDEN
- strong : weak
- wheelchair : bed
- free : confined
- healthy : sick
- broken : arm
Ans : C
- SUBPOENA : WITNESS
- hire : laborer
- tax : worker
- elect : officer
- suborn : judge
- conscript : soldier
Ans : E
- INVINCIBLE : SUBDUED
- expensive : bought
- inconsistent : expressed
- bolted : separated
- impervious : damaged
- imprudent : enacted
Ans : D
- BURLESQUE : PLAY
- operetta : symphony
- limerick : sonnet
- doggerel : verse
- table : narration
- sketch : drawing
Ans : C
- GROW : BURGEON
- flourish : thrive
- transport : enrapture
- beat : palpitate
- evolve : multiply
- wrot : decay
Ans : C
- EXTROVERT : RETICENT
- reprobate : humility
- strategist : decisiveness
- zealot : loyalty
- maverick : conformity
- renegade : ambition.
Ans : D
- HYGROMETER : BAROMETER
- snow : rain
- humidity : pressure
- water : mercury
- temperature : weather
- forecast : rain.
Ans : B
- EXEMPTION : EXCLUSIONS
- discharge : elimination
- debarment : prevention
- immunity : isolation
- forgive : condone
- enclosure : open.
Ans : C
- FEBRILE : ILLNESS
- classic : cultivation
- delusional : insanity
- eccentric : discrimination
- tenacious : astonishment
- juvenile : maturity.
Ans : B
- CONDUIT : WATER
- behaviour : liquid
- electricity : television
- artery : blood
- wire : sound
- pump : oil.
Ans : C
- BIZARRE : EXOTIC
- wild : tame
- lively : livid
- stage : dancer
- commonplace : routine
- ordinary : exceptional.
Ans : D
- ENTREPRENEUR : LABORER
- mediator : conflict
- capitalism : communism
- profits : wages
- arbitrator : capitalist
- moonlighting : worker.
Ans : C
- ANTIMACASSAR : SOFA
- picture : frame
- rug : floor
- pillow : bed
- door : window
- table : chair.
Ans : B
- NOTABLE : NOTORIOUS
- heinous : atrocious
- philandering : pleasant
- philanthropic : miserly
- nefarious : secret
- philanthropic : benevolent.
Ans : E
- ANGLE : DEGREE
- area : square inch
- milk : quart
- society : classes
- letter : alphabet
- time : minutes
Ans : A
- CONFIRMED : INVETERATE
- knowledge : supposed
- financial : bankrupt
- immature : callow
- credible : incredible
- careful: punishing
Ans : B
- LULLABY : BARCAROLE
- birth : marriage
- night : morning
- cradle : gondola
- song : poem
- carol : sonneteer
Ans : C
- ZOOLOGY : ANIMALS
- ecology : pollution
- botany : plants
- chemistry : atoms
- history : people
- mathematics : geometry
Ans : A
- DORY : VAN
- dairy : cow
- fish : vehicle
- freighter : caisson
- runners : wheels
- danish : Dutch
Ans : C
Directions:
Each of the GRE sample analogy questions below consists of two words that have a certain relationship to each other, followed by five lettered pairs of related words. Select the lettered pair of words.Following are some GRE sample analogy questions.
- BABBLE : TALK
- though : blank
- look : espy
- wink : eye
- leer : ogle
- simper : smile.
Ans : E
- ALCOVE : RECESS
- column : entrance
- foundation : building
- dome : roof
- turret : chimney
- foyer : ballroom
Ans : C
- EQUIVOCATE : COMMITMENT
- collaborate : falsification
- fabricate : explanation
- procrastinate : action
- expostulate : confusion
- implicate : exposition
Ans : C
- MORPHINE : SEDATES
- oil : smears
- bandage : protects
- drug : addicts
- liquor : sedates
- medicine : soothes
Ans : D
- SAW : CARPENTER
- Scissors : tailor
- Wagon : farmer
- Brush : painter
- Typewriter : author
- Trowel : bricklayer
Ans : A
- LURK : WAIT
- boost : elevate
- deplete : drain
- abscond : depart
- bilk : cheat
- topple : stabilize
Ans : C
- ALCHEMY : SCIENCE
- nostrum : remedy
- sideshow : carnival
- ploy : tactic
- forgery : imitation
- burlesque : comedy
Ans : A
- NEEDLE : KNIT
- bait : fish
- match : fire
- loom : weave
- soap : wash
- bed : sleep
Ans : C
- PARQUET : WOOD
- color : painting
- mosaic : glass
- potpourri : medley
- collage : tapestry
- linoleum : marble
Ans : B
- STICKLER : APPROXIMATION
- Lluggard : indolence
- connoisseur : anachronism
- scientist : theorizing
- leader : guidance
- purist : adulteration
Ans : E
- LOOM : WEAVE
- couch : sleep
- needle : knit
- soap : wash
- machine : stitch
- bail : fish
Ans : B
- BODY GUARD : PERSON
- teacher : pupil
- mayor : city
- police officer : traffic
- soldier : country
- secretary : office
Ans : D
- BOUQUET : FLOWERS
- corn : husk
- woodpile : logs
- forest : thicket
- mist : fog
- drift : snow.
Ans : B
- TRIANGLE : QUADRILATERAL
- rectangle : octagon
- cone : cube
- pentagon : hexagon
- plane : solid
- regular : symmetrical.
Ans : C
- SARTORIAL : TAILOR
- thespian : designer
- rhetorical : questioner
- pictorial : musician
- histrionic : singer
- terpsichorear : dancer.
Ans : E
- NECROMANCY : GHOSTS
- magic : legerdemain
- alchemy : gold
- sorcery : spirits
- fortune_telling : gypsies
- romance : stories.
Ans : C
- DRUM : TYMPANI
- piano : orchestra
- cornet : percussion
- stick : baton
- violin : viola
- oboe : woodwind.
Ans : E
- MUFFLE : SOUND
- conceal : secret
- assuage : grief
- maul : object
- extract : flavor
- endure : agony
Ans : B
- CENSORSHIP : INFORMATION
- cultivation : erosion
- philanthropy : generosity
- frugality : constraint
- sampling : measurement
- sanitation : disease
Ans : E
- DUPLICATE : ALTER
- greet : ignore
- exchange : return
- shake : stabilize
- stretch : shrink
- eradicate : implicate
Ans : D
Directions:
Each of the GRE sample analogy questions below consists of two words that have a certain relationship to each other, followed by five lettered pairs of related words. Select the lettered pair of words.Following are some GRE sample analogy questions.
- HYPOTHESIS : EXPERIMENTATION
- reality : fantasy
- opinion : debate
- film : camera
- predication : conclusion
- science : success
Ans : B
- TANGO : DANCE
- stanza : line
- tonality : instrumentation
- arabesque : theme
- rhyme : pattern
- elegy : poem
Ans : E
- CHRONOMETER : SUNDIAL
- measurement : visibility
- chronology : analogy
- computer : abacus
- watch : ray
- reduction : enlargement
Ans : C
- VINDICATE : REPREHENSIBLE.
- sad : sorrow
- bitter : sad
- mild : serious
- solid : porous
- vivid : obsequious.
Ans : C
- TERMAGANT : SHREW
- virago : harpy
- anteater : mouse
- supporter : nag
- single : married
- male : female.
Ans : A
- DEBATER : LARYNGITIS
- pedestrian : lameness
- actor : aplause
- doctor : diagnosis
- swimmer : wet
- writer : paper
Ans : A
- INKBLOT : EYECHART
- oculist : ophthalmologist
- blotter : spectacles
- psychiatrist : optometrist
- physician : specialist
- blurs : letters
Ans : C
- LIGNEOUS : WOOD
- cellular : microbe
- nautical : water
- igneous : rock
- osseous : bone
- fossilized : plant
Ans : D
- SHRINE : PILGRIM
- defeat : loser
- peak : climber
- rescue : danger
- election : contestant
- direction : driver.
Ans : B
- LIQUEFY : PETRIFY
- cash in : strengthen
- insolvent : bankrupt
- water : stone
- soften : frighten
- solvent : rich
Ans : C
- APOSTATE : RELIGION
- traitor : country
- renegade : Indian
- loyal : faith
- vital : church
- diloyal : colonies.
Ans : A
- RIVAL : COMPETITION
- litigant : morality
- maverick : co-operation
- mentor : praise
- sycophant : flattery
- medicant : confusion.
Ans : D
- SPIKE : TACK
- bullet : wound
- knife : cut
- arrow : bow
- spear : dart
- pin : needle
Ans : D
- INIQUITOUS : DISOBEDIENT
- adult : child
- hostile : cool
- quiescent : lethargic
- inflammable : flammable
- inequitable : equitable
Ans : B
- BALEFUL : MENACE
- brusque : retort
- competent : achievement
- placid : boredom
- flirtatious : affection
- solicitous : concern
Ans : E
- FIRM : INTRANSIGHT
- faithful : resolute
- improvident : industrious
- vague : inattentive
- concerned : obsessed
- malleable : tractable
Ans : D
- EPAULET : SHOULDER
- medal : chest
- decoration : uniform
- knapsack : back
- sword : scabbard
- sash : window
Ans : A
- ANACHRONISM : CHRONOLOGY
- tradition : custom
- variations : incongruity
- fallacy : logic
- archetype : paradigm
- debauchery : appetites
Ans : C
- DETRITUS : GLACIERS
- thaw : cold
- snow : icebergs
- sediment : bottom
- silt : rivers
- dregs : society
Ans : D
- OUTSKIRTS : TOWN
- water : goblet
- margin : page
- rung : ladder
- hangar : airplane
- trunk : tree
Ans : B
- HOAX : DECEIVE
- gimmick : wheedle
- filibuster : delay
- boast : cajole
- lottery : disburse
- scandal : vilify
Ans : B
- DISAPPROBATION : CONDEMN
- calumny : eulogise
- enigma : enlighter
- fallacy : diseminate
- exhortation : urge
- solvency : deploy.
Ans : D
- GEM : TURQUOISE
- lettuce : green
- pear : orange
- stone : magnetta
- vine : cherry
- flower : violet.
Ans : E
- WINE : GRAPES
- liquor : intoxicating
- whiskey : hops
- champagne : raisins
- vodka : potatoes
- vineyard : winery.
Ans : D
- DEBATE : FORENSIC
- concerto : harmonizing
- drama : histrionic
- opera : spoken
- argument : domestic
- novel : original.
Ans : B
- NOISOME : GARBAGE
- heavy : metal
- warmth : snow
- fragrant : incense
- liquid : perfume
- loud : music.
Ans : C
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