Analogy question
I've noticed this about myself... I cannot do the analogy section in standardized testing. I received the lowest score on this when I took the SAT, and now it has come back to haunt me.
Please someone help me understand this stuff!
#1 Dull: boring
a) glue: attaching
b) die: shaping
c) anchor: sailing
d) ink: printing
e) pedal: propelling
In this question, I can't see the connection with the word "die" and "shaping." I'm not sure if it means when you die, you become rigid, therefore having a shape?
or Die: a cutting or shaping tool that shapes??
It seems as thought it's the second one, but am I right?
#2 Evaporate: vapor
a) corrode : acid
b) centrifuge : liquid
c) petrify : stone
d) saturate : liquid
e) incinerate : fire
The only reason I picked the right answer was process elimination. But I still would like someone to make a sentence out the combination that will fit with evaporate: vapor and petrify: stone.
My GRE class taught me to make sentences using the prompted combination. The point was to see if I can use the choices (a,b,c,d,e) to find the same connection with the prompt. I tried and realized that I'm not so good at it.
They also said, "look for the 'typical and necessasry relatioship' " which seems to be working for me at this point. But it is still hard to pin point which is the "typical and necessasry relatioship" when you just don't know the words. English is very frustrating.
correct answer:
#1: b
#2: c
posted by *fumiko* @ 4:32 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Well, this is a hard part of the test. The hardest for me.
I try to find a single word or simple phrase that connects the two words and try to see if that same word/phrase works with the options. "evorate something and it becomes vapor" and "petrify something and it becomes stone". That phrase doesn't work with any other combination.
The first can be "dull creates boring" which makes it a choice between b and e. b to me has a slight edge 'cause it has that sense of time. Pedals propel as soon as you use them. Die's take a while to shape... just as you can listen to a dull person for a little while and then when some time passes you become bored.
To me, that first one is really hard, though.
Anyway, this section take a lot of practice. When I was studying for the GRE, I got up every morning and did 2 or three of these. You start to get the hang of it after a while.
Also, it doesn't hurt to work on your vocabulary in general. I used a this website for that.
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thanks for the vocab link. I signed up and will be doing them EVERY DAY!
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