501 Word Analogy Questions

121 Pages·2005·0.25 MB·English

501
Word Analogy Questions

501
Word Analogy
Questions
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501 word analogy questions / LearningExpress.—1st ed.
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1. English language—Synonyms and antonyms—Problems, exercises, etc.
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Contents
Introduction ix
1 Word Analogy Practice 1
2 Word Analogy Practice 9
3 Word Analogy Practice 17
4 Word Analogy Practice 25
5 Word Analogy Practice 33
6 Word Analogy Practice 41
7 Word Analogy Practice 49
8 Word Analogy Practice 57
9 Word Analogy Practice 65
10 Word Analogy Practice 73
11 Word Analogy Practice 81
12 Challenging Word Analogy Practice 89
13 Targeted Word Analogy Practice for the 97
Miller Analogies Test (MAT)

Introduction
Welcome to 501 Word Analogy Questions! This book is
designed to help you prepare for the verbal and reasoning sections of
many assessment and entrance exams. By completing the exercises in
this book, you will develop the skills necessary to tackle each type of
analogy question.
Many standardized tests—including high school entrance exams,
the SATs, civil service exams, the GREs, and others—use analogy
questions to test both logic and reasoning skills and word knowledge.
These questions ask test takers to identify relationships between pairs
of words. In order to solve analogy questions, you must first have a
clear understanding of the words’ definitions and then use that
understanding to determine how the words are related.
Analogy questions are often described as “blank is to blank as blank
is to blank.” So for example, puppy : dog :: kitten : ______, is read
“puppy is to dog as kitten is to blank.” The answer is, of course, “cat.”
However, the “blank is to blank” format does not really answer the
question precisely. More accurately, you might describe the rela-
tionship between puppy and dog as “a puppy is a young dog.” To