In each of the following questions, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of : : and one word is given on another side of : : while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear.Choose the correct alternatives.
Reluctant : Keen : : Remarkable : ?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Usual
The relation is word : its opposite. Reluctant is the opposite of keen; remarkable is the opposite of usual. Striking is a synonym of remarkable, not its antonym.
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Sculptor : Statue : : Poet : ?
Answer: C
Correct answer: Verse
The relation is maker : what he makes. A sculptor makes a statue; a poet makes verse. The canvas and the chisel are the materials and tools of other arts.
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Perch:Fresh Water::?:Salt water
Answer: C
Correct answer: Cod
The relation is fish : the water it lives in. The perch is a freshwater fish; the cod is a fish of the cold salt seas of the North Atlantic. Frogs, snakes and crocodiles are not fish.
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Ornithologist :Birds::Anthropologist:?
Answer: C
Correct answer: Mankind
The relation is specialist : his subject. An ornithologist studies birds; an anthropologist studies mankind - human societies, cultures and origins. Botany deals with plants and zoology with animals.
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Meat :Vegetarian::Liquor:?
Answer: C
Correct answer: Teetotaller
The relation is thing abstained from : the one who abstains. A vegetarian abstains from meat; a teetotaller abstains from liquor. The other choices describe character rather than abstinence.
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Amber:Yellow::Carmine:?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Red
The relation is pigment name : the colour it denotes. Amber is a yellowish brown; carmine is a deep crimson red, the pigment obtained from the cochineal insect.
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Wax:Wane::Zenith:?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Nadir
The relation is word : its opposite. To wax is the opposite of to wane; the zenith - the point directly overhead - is the opposite of the nadir, the point directly beneath. Bottom and depth are ordinary words, not the astronomical counterpart.
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Painting : Artist : : Symphony : ?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Composer
The relation is work : the artist who creates it. A painting is made by an artist; a symphony is written by a composer. Novelists, poets and essayists work in words.
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Pongee : Silk : : Shallop : ?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Boat
The relation is particular kind : the general class. Pongee is a kind of silk, a soft cloth woven from wild silk; a shallop is a kind of boat, a light open craft used in shallow water.
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Dawn : Dusk : : Inauguration : ?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Valediction
The relation is beginning : its closing counterpart. Dawn opens the day and dusk closes it; an inauguration opens a term or an event and a valediction closes it - the farewell address at the end.
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