GRE Analogies are all about relationships. It is used to test your ability to see a relationship between two words and recognize a similar relationship between two words. The post contains the GRE Analogies Practice Tests Quizzes. Click the link below to start with the GRE Analogies Practice Tests.
GRE Analogies Practice Tests with Answers
The basic idea of an analogy is to find pairs of words that express a similar relationship. An analogy is simply a comparison between two things (a pair of words). In this way, it is similar to simile and metaphor. Analogies are used all the time informally. In our daily life conversation, we compare one situation to another, that is we use an analogy in our daily life conversation. Consider a simile “Life is like a box of chocolates” also compares analogous ideas – the uncertainty and variety in life experiences with the same in a box of chocolates.
Most of the analogies fall into one of the following several categories:
- A is the defining characteristic of B.
- Lack of A is the defining characteristic of B
- A is a spurious form of B
- A is the same thing as B but more extreme
- A is the part of B
- A is a type of B
- A follows B in sequence (either as a matter of logic or as a matter of cause and effect)
- A is an interruption of B
- A is the tool used by B or A is the tool used to accomplish B
- A is the place one would find B
- A is a sign of B
