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
- 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.
- 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
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