Analogies
test your ability to define relationships between words as well as
your vocabulary. In the question, you will see a pair of words in
capital letters. We call these the "stem words." There will also be
five answer choices, each consisting of another word pair. Your task
is to identify the word pair in the answer choices that is related
in the same way as the word pair in the stem.
Since
you are looking for the answer choice that has the same relationship
as the words in the stem, you need to find the relationship between
these words before looking at the answer choices. It helps to "build
a bridge"that is, to devise a sentence or phrase that defines
one word in terms of the other.
Sample
Question #1
Directions:
In the following question, a related pair of words or phrases
is followed by five pairs of words or phrases. Choose the pair
that best expresses a relationship similar to that in the original
pair |