Analogies MCQs

Correct Answer: Smoke

The correct answer is Smoke, as asked in this question on Analogies.

Correct Answer: Attempt

The correct answer is Attempt, as asked in this question on Analogies.

Correct Answer: Delay

The correct answer is Delay, as asked in this question on Analogies.

Correct Answer: Pressure

The correct answer is Pressure, as asked in this question on Analogies.

Correct Answer: Fossils: Paleontologist

The correct answer is Fossils: Paleontologist, as asked in this question on Analogies.

Correct Answer: Loafer

The correct answer is Loafer, as asked in this question on Analogies.

Correct Answer: Gun : Shoot

The correct answer is Gun : Shoot, as asked in this question on Analogies.

Correct Answer: Cut

The function of a microscope is to magnify, and the primary function of a knife is to cut.

Correct Answer: Dinner

The correct answer is Dinner, as asked in this question on Analogies.

Correct Answer: swirl is to maelstrom

A breeze is a light wind while a hurricane is a massive, violent storm; similarly, a swirl is a small eddy, and a maelstrom is a powerful, massive whirlpool.

Correct Answer: Fever: Flushed

This is an analogy: 'Parched' is the extreme state of 'thirst', just as 'flushed' is a physical characteristic often associated with a 'fever'.

Correct Answer: Censor: Play

A filter removes impurities from water, just as a censor removes objectionable content from a play.

Correct Answer: Vase: Flower

A jar is a type of container; similarly, a vase is a type of object used to hold flowers.

Correct Answer: Antidote:Counteract

A vaccine is meant to prevent, just as an antidote is meant to counteract a poison.

Correct Answer: Lion:Pride

A school is a group of fish, and a pride is a group of lions.

Correct Answer: Liquid: Litre

Distance is measured in miles; similarly, volume of a liquid is measured in litres.

Correct Answer: Gaggle : Geese

The analogy is based on collective nouns; a group of lions is called a pride, just as a group of geese is called a gaggle.

Correct Answer: Dislike : Hatred

'Immense' is an extreme degree of 'large', just as 'hatred' is an extreme degree of 'dislike'.

Correct Answer: Reserved : Speak

A miser is hesitant or unwilling to spend money, just as a reserved person is hesitant or unwilling to speak freely.

Correct Answer: Goat: Bleat

A roar is the vocal sound a lion makes, just as a bleat is the vocal sound a goat makes.

Correct Answer: Burger: Snacks

Coffee falls into the category of a Beverage, just as a Burger belongs to the category of Snacks.

Correct Answer: Intelligence : Stupidity

Poverty and prosperity are antonyms, exactly like intelligence and stupidity are opposite terms.

Correct Answer: Nerves

Madness is an affliction or disorder related to the brain, just as paralysis is a disorder fundamentally related to the nerves.

Correct Answer: Paralysis

Deafness is the loss of function of the ear, just as paralysis is the loss of function/movement in the legs.

Correct Answer: Downpour: Flood

Germs cause infection, just as a downpour can cause a flood (causal relationship).

Correct Answer: Warmth: Day

Just as coolness is a characteristic associated with the night, warmth is characteristic of the day.

Correct Answer: Braggart: Boast

A stickler is someone who insists on something. Similarly, a braggart is someone who boasts.

Correct Answer: Furrow: Plow

A scalpel is a tool used to create an incision. Similarly, a plow is a tool used to create a furrow.

Correct Answer: Touch : Push

A sip is a small drink while a gulp is a large one. Similarly, a touch is a light physical contact, whereas a push is forceful.

Correct Answer: Child : Youth

Just as morning transitions into noon, childhood transitions into youth.

Correct Answer: Goat : Bleat

A lion's vocalization is a roar, just as a goat's vocalization is a bleat.

Correct Answer: Walk : Stagger

Stammering is a struggling variation of speaking, just as staggering is an unsteady variation of walking.

Correct Answer: Courage : Timorous

Guile (slyness) and Ingenious (clever) represent antonymous traits conceptually, much like Courage and Timorous (fearful).

Correct Answer: Overlook : Aberration

Just as one condones (forgives/ignores) an offence, one overlooks an aberration (deviation from normal).

Correct Answer: Clay: Pottery

Cream is a product derived from milk, similar to how pottery is created from clay.

Correct Answer: Hospital: Surgeon

A judge performs their primary function in a court, just as a surgeon performs their primary function in a hospital.

Correct Answer: Cow: Herbivore

A cow is classified as an herbivore, which is a clear and correct classification analogy.

Correct Answer: Hands

This is an analogy: gloves are garments worn to cover the hands, just as socks are worn to cover the feet.

Correct Answer: Album

A closet is designed to store clothes, just as an album is a book specifically designed to hold and display photos.

Correct Answer: Hen

A bull is a male bovine and a cow is the female. A cock (rooster) is a male chicken, and a hen is the female.

Correct Answer: Edit : Text

Just as a filter removes impurities from water, editing removes unnecessary parts or errors from text.

Correct Answer: Stallion : Mare

The relationship is between a male and female animal of the same species; similarly, a stallion is a male horse and a mare is a female horse.

Correct Answer: Grief : Consolation

A sedative relieves pain; similarly, consolation relieves grief.

Correct Answer: Mutton : Sheep

Pork is the meat derived from a pig; similarly, mutton is the meat derived from a sheep.

Correct Answer: Walk : Stagger

Stammering is a disruption or impairment of talking, just as staggering is a disruption of walking.

Correct Answer: Automobile

A hangar is a building used to store an airplane, just as a garage is a building used to store an automobile.

Correct Answer: Night

Young is the antonym of old, just as morning represents the beginning of the day and its opposite/ending counterpart is night.

Correct Answer: Humor : Mollycoddle

To 'chide' is to mildly scold, while to 'pillory' is to severely punish. Similarly, to 'humor' is to mildly indulge, while to 'mollycoddle' is to severely overindulge.

Correct Answer: Cloth

This analogy pairs a profession with its primary working material: a carpenter works with wood, and a tailor works with cloth.

Correct Answer: Tree

Just as a limb is a protruding appendage of a human body, a branch is an appendage protruding from the trunk of a tree.

Correct Answer: Blue

This analogy relates objects to their natural colors: milk is naturally white, and the daytime sky is naturally blue.

Correct Answer: Hand

This analogy relates clothing items to the body parts they cover: a boot is worn on a foot, and a glove is worn on a hand.

Correct Answer: Black

This is a simple color analogy. Ice is naturally associated with white/clear, while coal is characteristically black.

Correct Answer: Him

This analogy tests grammatical cases or relations. 'He' is subjective while 'Him' is objective, corresponding as a pair.

Correct Answer: Ballet

A poet creates a poem, just as a choreographer creates dance routines, most classically represented by a ballet.

Correct Answer: shard : pottery

A grain is a small, hard particle of salt, just as a shard is a broken piece of brittle material like pottery.

Correct Answer: Day : Night

Diffident (shy) and Arrogant (overconfident) are antonyms, just as Day and Night are direct opposites.

Correct Answer: Courageous

Slack is a synonym for negligent, just as plucky is a synonym for courageous.

Correct Answer: Endurance

A weightlifter relies on strength, while a marathoner primarily relies on endurance.

Correct Answer: Renounce

Undo and reverse are synonyms. Similarly, forgo and renounce are synonyms meaning to give up something.

Correct Answer: Cave

An astronomer explores space, whereas a spelunker explores caves.

Correct Answer: Gardner : Plants

A shepherd tends to and cares for sheep, just as a gardener tends to and cares for plants.

Correct Answer: Vegetable

Pawpaw is botanically classified as a fruit, while an onion is classified as a vegetable.

Correct Answer: Refraction

A mirror's primary optical property is reflection, whereas water's defining optical property in physics analogies is often refraction.

Correct Answer: Burger : Snacks

Coffee is a type of beverage. Similarly, a burger is a type of snack (or fast food). It represents an Item-to-Category relationship.

Correct Answer: Rainbow : Sky

A mirage is an optical illusion commonly observed in a desert. Similarly, a rainbow is an optical phenomenon observed in the sky.

Correct Answer: mutton : sheep

Pork is the culinary name for the meat of a pig, just as mutton is the culinary name for the meat of a sheep.

Correct Answer: censor : play

Filtering water removes unwanted impurities. Similarly, censoring a play removes objectionable material.

Correct Answer: Worldly: Unworldly

Mundane is an antonym of Spiritual. Similarly, Worldly is an antonym of Unworldly.

Correct Answer: Goose : Geese

The analogy is based on irregular pluralization. 'Geese' is the irregular plural of 'goose', just as 'men' is the irregular plural of 'man'.

Correct Answer: Medley : Songs

Just as a collage is a collection made of various images, a medley is a collection made of various songs.

Correct Answer: Explain

This is an antonym analogy. Hinder is the opposite of help, just as explain is the opposite of obfuscate (to make unclear).

Correct Answer: Engagement : Marriage

A rehearsal is a preparatory event that leads to a performance, just as an engagement leads to a marriage.

Correct Answer: Snake : Hiss

A lion makes a roaring sound. A snake makes a hissing sound. Both are represented as singular nouns with their respective singular verbs.

Correct Answer: ELLIPSIS : OMISSION

Parentheses are punctuation marks used to enclose an explanation. An ellipsis is used to signify an omission.

Correct Answer: Razor

This is an analogy based on function. A knife's primary function is to cut, just as a razor's function is to shave.

Correct Answer: Articulate: Speech

Graceful describes a highly elegant movement, just as articulate describes highly clear and elegant speech.

Correct Answer: Dearth: Surplus

'Encourage' and 'Restrict' are antonyms (opposites). Similarly, 'Dearth' (scarcity) and 'Surplus' (excess) are antonyms.

Correct Answer: Omnivore : Beetle

The relationship is Animal : Diet type (though the correct syntax should be Beetle: Omnivore). A lion is a carnivore, just as many beetles belong to omnivorous groups.

Correct Answer: Brake

Progress and recession are opposites. In the context of vehicle momentum, high gear promotes speed, while applying the brake stops or reverses that momentum.

Correct Answer: Provocation : Anger

A threat causes a feeling of insecurity, just as provocation causes a feeling of anger.

Correct Answer: Gouging

In this analogy, USURY relates to INTEREST as PRICE relates to gouging.

Correct Answer: Airport

A road is to an automobile as an airport is to an airplane.

Correct Answer: Distance

CLOCK relates to TIME as a yardstick relates to distance.

Correct Answer: Bird

Scales relate to fish as feathers relate to a bird.

Correct Answer: Road

As a plant is found in a forest, so a house stands by a road, in the book's pairing.

Correct Answer: Spectacles

Spectacles is another word for eyeglasses.

Correct Answer: Aspirin

A pharmacy sells aspirin, as a superstore sells cereal.

Correct Answer: Transportation

Arkansas is a state, and a train is a means of transportation.

Correct Answer: Sprightly

Sprightly is the opposite of exhausted, as early is the opposite of late.

Correct Answer: proliferate : number

Expanding increases volume just as proliferating increases number.

Correct Answer: preamble : constitution

A prologue introduces a novel just as a preamble introduces a constitution.

Correct Answer: expert : proficient

The book's key gives expert : proficient; a pest is by nature irksome just as an expert is by nature proficient, a judgement analogy retained at the key.

Correct Answer: dew : condensation

Rust is the product of corrosion just as dew is the product of condensation.

Correct Answer: hypothesis : confirmed

A claim is legitimated, made legitimate, just as a hypothesis is confirmed.

Correct Answer: bone : rib

An organ's example is the kidney, just as a bone's example is the rib.

Correct Answer: verify : doubtfulness

To purify is to remove imperfection, just as to verify is to remove doubtfulness.

Correct Answer: colander : drain

A centrifuge separates, just as a colander drains.

Correct Answer: referee : whistle

A judge uses a gavel, just as a referee uses a whistle.

Correct Answer: sawdust : woodcutting

Soot is the by-product of combustion, just as sawdust is the by-product of woodcutting.