Analogies Practice Test 1
Q.1
HANGER : AIRPLANCE ::
- A. Stable : horse
- B. canal : ship
- C. lobby : administrator
- D. junkyard : automobile
- E. bed : river
- Answer: A
hangar is the shed in which an airplane is kept; a stable is the shed in which a horse is kept
Q.2
VANE : WIOND DIRECTION ::
- A. thermometer : mercury
- B. speedometer : pedal
- C. hourglass : sand
- D. barometer : heat
- E. sundial : time
- Answer: E
A vane or weathercock is an instrument which shows the wind direction). A vane is used for snowing the wind direction; a sundial is used for knowing time.
Q.3
ANONYMOUS : NAME
- A. colorful : hue
- B. enormous : size
- C. shapeless : form
- D. brief : significance
- E. precise : measurement
- Answer: C
An anonymous letter has no name; a shapeless object has no form.
Q.4
SYMPATHY : EMOTION ::
- A. sorrow : happiness
- B. friendship : relationship
- C. pride : punishment
- D. criticism : guilt
- E. harshness : helpfulness
- Answer: B
Sympathy is an example of emotion; friendship is an example of relationship.
Q.5
HABIT : CUSTOMARY ::
- A. response : coordinated
- B. impulse : corrective
- C. reflex : involuntary
- D. concern : commendatory
- E. performance : descriptive
- Answer: C
A habit is a customary behaviour; a reflex is an involuntary behaviour.
Q.6
THREAT : HOSTILITY ::
- A. plea : clemency
- B. promise : benevolence
- C. lampoon : raise
- D. capitulation : malice
- E. compliment : admiration
- Answer: E
A threat is given because of hostility (meaning enmity); a compliment is given because of admiration.
Q.7
MAGNET : IRON ::
- A. tank : fluid
- B. hook : net
- C. sunlight : plant
- D. spray : tree
- E. flame : bird
- Answer: C
An iron is attracted by a magnet; a plant is attracted by sunlight.
Q.8
ARDENT : INTERESTED ::
- A. depressed : cheerful
- B. bored : curious
- C. shy : listless
- D. incensed : annoyed
- E. wise : detached
- Answer: D
Being ardent (meaning passionate) is an intensified form of being interested; being incensed (meaning very angry) is an intensified form of being annoyed.
Q.9
VOGUE : ACCEPTED
- A. VOGUE : ACCEPTED
- B. transition : unchanged
- C. jeopardy : voided
- D. abundance : desired
- E. disrepute : shunned
- Answer: E
What is in vogue is generally accepted; what is in disrepute is generally shunned (meaning avoided).
Q.10
HYPERBOLE : LANGUAGE :
- A. prodigality : spending
- B. whimsicality : poetry
- C. idiom : slang
- D. repetition : behavior
- E. ambition : working
- Answer: A
Hyperbole means exaggeration in language; prodigality means excessive spending.
Q.11
STUDIO : ARTIST ::
- A. play : dramatist
- B. cathedral : architect
- C. blackboard : professor
- D. laboratory : chemist
- E. quarry : sculptor
- Answer: D
A studio is where an artist works; a laboratory is where a chemist works. (Studio not always means a place where photographs are taken; it is the general name for an artist???s workplace.)
Q.12
RIPPLE : TIDAL WAVE ::
- A. breeze : hurricane
- B. blizzard : avalanche
- C. valley : earthquake
- D. puddle : downpour
- E. rock : waterfall
- Answer: A
A tidal wave is an intensified form of a ripple; a hurricane is an intensified form of a breeze.
Q.13
EDUCATIONAL : IGNORANCE
- A. book : knowledge
- B. door : entrance
- C. reason : philosophy
- D. medicine : disease
- E. work : recreation
- Answer: D
Education dispels ignorance; medicine dispels disease.
Q.14
BOW : VIOLIN ::
- A. music : piano
- B. brass : trumpet
- C. note : flute
- D. string : guitar
- E. drumstick : drum
- Answer: E
The violinist uses a bow to produce sound from a violin; a drummer was a drumstick to produce sound from a drum. (a Drumstick are not attached as parts of a violin or a drum, but are external to them.)
Q.15
DUMBFOUND : ASTONISHMENT
- A. exasperate : frustration
- B. domineer : rebellion
- C. evaluate : incompetence
- D. err : punishment
- E. repulse : admiration
- Answer: A
One is dumbfounded in astonishment; on is exasperated (meaning greatly imitated) in frustration (meaning grave disappointment).