Understanding the Cause : Cease Analogy

This type of question asks you to find a relationship between the first pair of words and apply that same relationship to the second word to find the missing term. Let's examine the relationship between Cause and Cease.

Analyzing the Letters

Let's look at the letters in each word:

• Cause: C, A, U, S, E
• Cease: C, E, A, S, E

When we compare the letters, we can see that the word Cause has the letters {C, A, U, S, E}. The word Cease has the letters {C, E, A, S, E}. It appears that the letter 'U' in Cause is replaced by the letter 'E' to get the set of letters used in Cease, and then these letters are rearranged.

Identifying the Pattern Rule

The pattern observed in the first pair, Cause : Cease, is: Take the letters of the first word, replace the letter 'U' with the letter 'E', and then rearrange these new letters to form the second word.

Applying the Pattern to Poise

Now, let's apply a similar pattern to the word Poise. We need to find which option follows a similar rule of letter replacement and rearrangement as seen in the first pair.

Let's look at the letters in Poise: P, O, I, S, E.

Following the pattern, we need to replace a specific letter in Poise with another letter and see if the resulting letters can form one of the options. Given the transformation in the first pair (U → E), let's look for a similar vowel replacement or perhaps a position-based replacement.

Let's consider the option Pipes and compare its letters with Poise.

Comparing Poise and Pipes

Let's look at the letters in Pipes: P, I, P, E, S.

Compare the letters of Poise ({P, O, I, S, E}) and Pipes ({P, I, P, E, S}). It appears that the letter 'O' in Poise is replaced by the letter 'P' to get the set of letters used in Pipes.

Let's test this rule: Start with the letters of Poise {P, O, I, S, E}. Replace 'O' with 'P'. This gives us the set of letters {P, P, I, S, E}. Can these letters be rearranged to form Pipes (P, I, P, E, S)? Yes, they can.

Conclusion

The analogy follows the pattern where a specific letter in the first word (U in Cause, O in Poise) is replaced by another specific letter (E in Cease, P in Pipes), and the resulting letters are rearranged to form the second word in the pair. Applying this pattern to Poise leads to Pipes.