Verbal Reasoning - Mental Ability Questions

Letters in the word                     Letters in the alphabet

$$\begin{gathered} PRES \\ - - \end{gathered}$$

                                $$\begin{gathered} PQRS \\ - - \end{gathered}$$

$$\begin{gathered} RESEN \\ - - \end{gathered}$$                             $$\begin{gathered} RQPON \\ - - \end{gathered}$$

Since Eric's father and Ivanka's mother are Brother and sister, 

=> Ivanka is Eric's Aunt Daughter => Cousin Sister. 

In the real numbers, zero does not have a reciprocal because no real number multiplied by 0 produces 1 (the product of any number with zero is zero).

Hence, 0 doesn't have any multiplicative inverse.

The words in each pair are opposites of each other. 

Hence, Dilatory : Expeditious :: Direct : Circumlocutory.

In the given series, 

 2nd term = 1st term + 12= 4 +1 = 5  

3rd term = 2nd term + 22 =5+4= 9  

4th term = 3rd term + 32 =9+9=18  

5th term = 4th term + 42 = 18+16=34 

Therefore, odd term is 32

Cruise = a sea voyage for pleasure. All other words are related to ‘journey on land, sea with an aim’.