Verbal Solutions

Analogies

1. Answer - D
A sedative causes drowsiness; an anaesthetic causes numbness.

2. Answer -C
A lawyer fights in a courtroom; a gladiator fights in an arena.

3. Answer - C
Curiosity is a desire to know; wanderlust is a desire to travel.

4. Answer - D
Frugal is bring thrifty; miserly is being overly thrifty. If has negative
connotations. Rash means hasty; fool hardy means being overly hasty. It
has negative connotations.

5. Answer - D
Antidote works against poison; tonic works against lethargy.

6. Answer - A
Stygian is hell like or dark referring to the river styx in the underworld.
Abysmal is like an abyss or bollomless pit and is therefore low.

7. Answer - E
Sacrifice is or is a part of worship. Angry or practicing divination or
fortunetelling is a part of prediction.

8. Answer - E
That which is evanescent disappears quickly. That which is pliant yields
quickly.

9. Answer - A
Upbraid means reprove sharply, a stronger form of reproach. Dote in
showing excessive love or fondness. It is a stronger form of liking.

10. Answer - C
That which is fragile will easily break; that which is flammable will easily burn.

11. Answer - D
Mutter is to speak indistinctly; drone is to speak monotonously.

12. Answer - C
The characteristic of a fault finder is criticism. The characteristic of an
arbitrator is mediation.

13. Answer - B
A pest is an annoying person; he is in characterized by the quality of causing
irritation or annoyance. An expert is a person with high degree of knowledge
and skill in a subject. He is characterized by proficience or competence or
adeptness.
14. Answer - A
A prologue is an introduction or introductory chapter to a novel. A preamble
is an introductory statement to a formal document, such as a statute which is
a law enacted by a legislature or the decree of edict of a ruler.

15. Answer - B
Expand means increase in volume
proliferate means increase in number.

16. Answer - B
Contiguous means sharing a boundary, or touching, adjacent or abutting. i.e
it is coincidence in space. Simultaneous means to happen at the same time
or coincidence in time.

17. Answer - D
A suitcase is part of luggage, consisting of various items; a hat is a pat of
articles sold by a milliner.

18. Answer - D
Whatever is prohibitive is too costly to be purchased and therefore cannot be
purchased. Whatever is peremptory does not allow contradiction or refusal it
is imperative and therefore cannot be disputed.