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Tackle Analogy Questions - GRE Verbal

Analogies measure your ability to recognize:
  • relationships among words and concepts they represent
  • parallel relationships

In this section, you are presented with a related pair of words followed by five answer choices containing lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

Analogies Strategies :
  • Try to establish a strong relationship between the given pair of words
  • Consider relationships of kind, size, spatial contiguity, or degree.
  • If more than one of the answer choices seems correct, try to state the relationship more precisely.
  • Check for second meanings of the given words

    • Analogies Sample question :

    EVAPORATE:VAPOUR

    1. petrify:stone
    2. centrifuge:liquid
    3. saturate:fluid
    4. corrode:acid
    5. incinerate:fire

    Answer: A