Select the most appropriate option to complete the analogy.
Analogy Solution: Courage, Bravery, Yearning, Longing
Identifying the Relationship
The first pair, Courage : Bravery, shows a relationship where both words are synonyms. Both terms refer to the quality of being fearless and facing danger or difficulty without fear.
Applying the Relationship
To complete the analogy Yearning : ?, we need to find a word that is a synonym for Yearning, similar to how Bravery is a synonym for Courage. Yearning means a feeling of intense longing for something.
Analyzing the Options
- Option A: Longing - This word means a strong desire or craving, which is a direct synonym for Yearning.
- Option B: Yelling - This means shouting loudly, which is unrelated to Yearning.
- Option C: Yawning - This is the physical act of opening one's mouth wide and inhaling deeply, unrelated to Yearning.
- Option D: Glaring - This means staring intensely or angrily, which is unrelated to Yearning.
Conclusion
The word Longing is the best fit as it shares the same synonymous relationship with Yearning as Bravery does with Courage.
Important Questions from Sentence Completion
Directions: In a question given below an incomplete sentence that must be filled/completed with one of the sentence /phrases can be fit into the given blanks. Choose the corret option and complete the given sentence.
The focus has been on finishing the syllabus instead of concentration on whether the student _____________________________.
Directions: In a question given below an incomplete sentence that must be filled/completed with one of the sentence /phrases can be fit into the given blanks. Choose the correct option and complete the given sentence.
Due to the rapid mechanisation of low-skill jobs in the construction and retail sectors, employment prospects________________________________.
Directions: Given below is a conversation between two people. Fill in the blank with the appropriate sentence to make it grammatically correct.
Anita: What about our plans for the weekend?
Mehta: Everything set but if Anna comes to know about it, _________
The sentences (given with blanks) are to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. For each question, choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it.
See me tomorrow without ___________
The sentences (given with blanks) are to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. For each question, choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it.
Radium ___________ rays that blind the eyes.
