Practice Lab · Verbal relationships

Verbal relationships

Analogy and relationship practice with plain-language explanations.

Untimed instructional practice for the Novus Reasoning Challenge. Explanations teach the reasoning process. These items are not unseen scored-form questions and do not produce an IQ score.

1. Bird is to nest as bee is to ?
2. Author is to book as composer is to ?
3. Hot is to cold as tall is to ?
4. Finger is to hand as toe is to ?
5. Teacher is to classroom as judge is to ?
6. Seed is to plant as egg is to ?
7. Map is to territory as blueprint is to ?
8. Ounce is to pound as centimeter is to ?
9. Librarian is to books as curator is to ?
10. Smile is to frown as praise is to ?
11. Engine is to car as heart is to ?
12. Desert is to arid as rainforest is to ?
13. Key is to lock as password is to ?
14. Chapter is to novel as episode is to ?
15. Scalpel is to surgeon as wrench is to ?
16. Dawn is to morning as dusk is to ?
17. Vocabulary is to language as palette is to ?
18. Vaccine is to prevention as bandage is to ?
19. Archive is to historian as lab is to ?
20. Quiet is to silent as happy is to ?

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