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1. ASPIRANT : AMBITION ::
A) mentor : malice
B) renegade : faith
C) virtuoso : innocence
D) rebel : defiance
E)antagonist : maturity
2. ANARCHISM : GOVERNMENT ::
A) paternalism : ancestors
B) pacifism : war
C) realism : progress
D) capitalism : commerce
E) socialism : society
3. STUPIDITY : DUNCE ::
A) obstinacy : introvert
B) flattery : sycophant
C) fear : clown
D) acuity : hypocrite
E) deceit : vagrant
4. REMISSION : DISEASE ::
A) recollection : imagination
B) resurgence : determination
C) prescription : diagnosis
D) quiescence : storm
E) regression : violence
5. DISCUSSION : ALTERCATION ::
A) planning : action
B) speech : tirade
C) uncertainty : change
D) dialogue : conversation
E) group : convention
Answer
1.(B) To reach the source of a river, one must travel upstream; to reach to the peak of mountain, one should travel uphill.
2.(A) Farmers work on arable land; occupants live in habitable houses.
3.(E) A hackneyed (meaning overused) phrase has lost its novelty; a threadbare (meaning oversued) clothing has lost its novelty.
4.(E) A salesperson sells merchandise; a broker sells stocks.
5.(D) Dogmatic is descriptive of a dictum (meaning maxim, axiom); cryptic (meaning puzzling) is descriptive of a riddle.
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