Verbal Analogies
A:B :: C:D analogy puzzles testing relationships and reasoning. 152 puzzles preserved from Bill's original 1998 archive.
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- #1 thieves : den :: cards : ?
- #2 Ranger : Holmes :: Tonto : ?
- #3 Wayne : Duke :: O'Neal : ?
- #4 string : yellow ribbon :: finger : ?
- #5 hair : Rapunzel :: nose : ?
- #6 body : helmet :: finger : ?
- #7 ear : leg :: corn : ?
- #8 seek : find :: ask : ?
- #9 Caesar : Lincoln :: Brutus, et al : ?
- #10 Aztec : Inca :: Mexico : ?
- #11 Mike : Iron :: Cal : ?
- #12 FDR : New Deal :: LBJ : ?
- #13 sun : day :: rise : ?
- #14 vegetable : herb- :: meat : ?
- #15 soup : vegetables :: blood : ?
- #16 Hand : Smith :: Man : ?
- #17 same : different :: resurrection : ?
- #18 languages : meaning :: philology : ?
- #19 Commandments : 10 :: Deadly Sins : ?
- #20 people : democracy :: wealthy : ?
- #21 bread : oven :: pottery : ?
- #22 marriage : patent :: adultery : ?
- #23 two : sun :: bi- : ?
- #24 mother : matricide :: king : ?
- #25 part : live :: trap : ?
- #26 train : freight :: ship : ?
- #27 spinach : Popeye :: hair : ?
- #28 square : octagon :: triangle : ?
- #29 ice : liquid :: water : ?
- #30 scarecrow : brain :: Odysseus : ?
- #31 Hubbard : Goose :: Earth : ?
- #32 funambulism : tightrope walking :: truncheon : ?
- #33 ethereal : stygian :: erstwhile : ?
- #34 Blue : Deep :: Orange : ?
- #35 Utopia : More :: Nicomachean Ethics : ?
- #36 dizziness : vertigo :: tiredness : ?
- #37 dexterity : skullduggery :: skill : ?
- #38 Robin : Batman :: Engels : ?
- #39 gamble : fight :: casino : ?
- #40 guard : thief :: shield : ?
- #41 arrogant : bombast :: lazy : ?
- #42 Chinese : China :: Farsi : ?
- #43 happiness : Jefferson :: property : ?
- #44 ocean : fountain :: desert : ?
- #45 algebra : mathematics :: existentialism : ?
- #46 teeth : chicken :: sentience : ?
- #47 101 : Dalmatians :: 1,001 : ?
- #48 gaze : gorgon :: song : ?
- #49 bull's eye : perfect shot :: snake eyes : ?
- #50 Naiads : springs & streams :: Oreads : ?
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- #81 polyglot : languages :: polyphagous : ?
- #82 confident : sanguine :: dregs : ?
- #83 simile : metaphor :: like : ?
- #84 I'll be back : Arnold :: make my day : ?
- #85 epitaph : grave :: epilogue : ?
- #86 child : human :: poult : ?
- #87 Thursday : Thor :: Friday : ?
- #88 Baluchi : Pakistan :: Flemish : ?
- #89 gallon : 4 quarts :: parasang : ?
- #90 dorsal : back :: volar : ?
- #91 Molly Brown : sink :: Bill Clinton : ?
- #92 riparian : bank :: empirical : ?
- #93 misnomer : wrong :: pseudonym : ?
- #94 erstwhile : former :: mithridate : ?
- #95 escutcheon : scutcheon :: fabulist : ?
- #96 muddled : confused :: addled : ?
- #97 effete : fructuous :: chapfallen : ?
- #98 3 : 11 :: 3 : ?
- #99 selenology : moon :: epistemology : ?
- #100 commence : end :: born : ?
- #101 sufi : mystic :: eider : ?
- #102 inter : exhume :: piebald : ?
- #103 apothecary : drugs :: cruciverbalist : ?
- #104 Narcissus : flower :: Io : ?
- #105 complete : compleat :: surgeon : ?
- #106 voluble : loquacious :: puma : ?
- #107 murrey : black :: magenta : ?
- #108 nim : counters :: craps : ?
- #109 faithfulness : infidelity :: Penelope : ?
- #110 scurvy : vitamin C :: kwashiorkor : ?
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- #126 telepathy : obsession :: telekinesis :
- #127 head : cabbage :: ear :
- #128 small bird : dodo :: horse/zebra :
- #129 25151871169182220 : 1119261526123 :: phalanx :
- #130 simultaneous : 71 :: AAAIIEEE! :
- #131 plumed serpent : Quetzlcoatl :: sunbathing omniscient shapechanger (HANG ON FOR YOUR LIFE) :
- #132 1996TL66 : Jupiter :: decennium :
- #133 apple : core :: blackhole :
- #134 re- un- -ism : fix :: "agony" "pain" "like better" :
- #135 garrulous : prenatal :: laconic :
- #136 empiricism : Aristotelian :: egotism :
- #137 Taoism awakens prophetic theatrics drowning indeed definitively honey-dew-eatin' definitions obliteration saturations : four :: Your name is Matsika Ujimbo :
- #138 Zeno : Stoicism :: Muhammad : Existentialism Islam Physiology Zymology Astrophysics
- #139 2. Ruth : 60 :: Maris : 61 62 63 64 65
- #140 tertiary : third :: feline : sagacious cantankerous stealthy wealthy productive
- #141 Raymond : Flash Gordon :: Burroughs : Mork Frodo Tarzan Skywalker Tarbosh
- #142 chic : fashionable :: chicanery : hilarity servitude honesty propensity trickery
- #143 fortitude : endurance :: intransigence : forthrightness obduracy temerity consideration voluptuousness
- #144 movable type : Gutenberg :: lightning rod : Edison Roentgen Ellison Franklin Martin
- #145 curiosity : cat :: patience : parlance important lengthy boring virtue
- #146 greenhouse : photoelectric :: Titanic : Mamba Challenger Standard Gota Subway
- #147 Sarah : Abraham :: Guinevere : Lancelot Gawain Luther Gallahad Arthur
- #148 corpulent : obese :: opulent : silly optimistic wealthy watery immature
- #149 man : eunuch :: rooster : capon eunuch renton eland bicker
- #150 Star Wars : Force :: Space Balls : Force Schwartz TourDeForce Farce Energizer
- #151 stygian : celestial :: empiricism : rationalism idealism existentialism Buddhism asceticism
- #152 aconite : wolfsbane :: aconite : grailturn cornback tigerpaw seabrine monkshood
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