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  1. Which pair of words has the most SIMILAR relationship to TEPID : BOILING?

    Answer: Damp : Soaked

    Tepid (slightly warm) and boiling represent a mild versus extreme degree of the same quality, just as damp and soaked represent mild versus extreme wetness.

  2. PERNICIOUS most nearly means:

    Answer: Harmful

    Pernicious means having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

  3. Rearrange the words to form a logical sentence: 'quickly | ran | to | the | fire | children | away | the | from'

    Answer: The children ran quickly away from the fire.

    The grammatically correct and logically coherent sentence is 'The children ran quickly away from the fire.'

  4. Which word CANNOT be formed using only the letters in LEGISLATURE?

    Answer: GRILL

    GRILL requires two L's, but the word LEGISLATURE contains only one L, making it impossible to form.

  5. The statement 'All that glitters is not gold' means:

    Answer: Attractive appearances can be deceiving.

    The proverb warns that something appealing or shiny in appearance is not necessarily as valuable or genuine as it seems.

  6. Which word is the best synonym for LOQUACIOUS?

    Answer: Talkative

    Loquacious means tending to talk a great deal; garrulous or wordy.

  7. In the sequence BCEF GHIJ KLMN, what comes next?

    Answer: OPQR

    Each group skips one letter (A is skipped, then nothing is skipped—actually the pattern is four consecutive letters starting after a gap: BC-EF (skip D), GH-IJ (no skip within), the groups are BCEF GHIJ KLMN OPQR following sequential four-letter blocks.