English 10 / Unit 11: Vocabulary: Roots, Context and Connotation
11.6 Analogies and Word Relationships
Notes
An analogy question asks you to find a pair of words with the same relationship as a given pair.
- Turn the first pair into a sentence: A thermometer measures temperature. Then test each choice in the same sentence.
- Common relationships: synonym, antonym, part to whole, tool to use, cause to effect, degree of intensity, worker to product.
- Example: author : novel :: composer : symphony (a worker creates a product).
Practice
Choose the pair that matches the relationship: CHAPTER : NOVEL ::
A chapter is part of a novel; a scene is part of a play.
Choose the pair that matches: WARM : SCALDING ::
The second word is a much more intense degree of the first.
Choose the pair that matches: CANDID : DECEITFUL ::
The words in each pair are antonyms.
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