Word relationship questions assess your ability to identify the
relationship between words and to then apply this verbal analogy.
To answer these questions you need to understand the meaning of
the words in the question and establish what exactly the
relationship is between them.
You should then look at the answer options and decide which
answer is the most appropriate. These questions test your
reasoning ability as well as your vocabulary. These types of
question appear in nearly all levels of
verbal ability tests.
This sample question paper contains 40 questions and has
a suggested time limit of 10 minutes. The questions are
presented in Letter/A4 format for easy printing and self-marking.
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Verbal Ability
Word Relationship - Practice Test 1
Word relationship questions often take the form of verbal
analogies. These can be classified into specific categories. For
example; materials, taxonomic relationships, temporal
relationships, parts of speech etc. The list is almost endless. Be
sure that you understand what an analogy is before you start.
Every analogy expresses a relationship between two things. It is
this relationship that you must understand as you look at the
options required to complete the analogy.
First try to understand the relationships expressed in the
question words. Then choose your answer so that the relationship
in the first pair of words is similar to the relationship in the
second pair of words in terms of meaning, order and function.
Check that the parts of speech used in the two sections of analogy
are consistent and follow in the same sequence. For example, if
the first pair of words contains an adjective and a noun in that
order, then the second pair of words must contain an adjective and
a noun in the same order. Test designers are very fond of offering
answer options which initially seem credible but where this golden
rule is broken.
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