Verbal Reasoning - Mental Ability Questions

Anthropology deals with the study of man. Similarly, Anthology deals with the collection of poems.

Appendix, earlier used to digest raw vegetable matter, is now a vestigial organ in human body and does-not perform any function. 

An atom contains the positively charged protons and an equal number of negatively charged electrons So, it is neutral

The letters move four places forward each in the alphabet.

First is a hatred for the second

 The alphabets in the given words are coded as follows :

$$\begin{gathered} M I S T A K E N D \\ 9 7 6 5 4 1 2 8 3 \end{gathered}$$

D is coded as 3,

I as 7,
S as 6,
T as 5,
A as 4  and
N as 8.
So, the code for DISTANT is 3765485.

The given words are related in a way that, an optimist is a person whose outlook is cheerful. Similarly, a pessimist is a person whose outlook is gloomy.

The answer is not (b) because a pessimist does not have to be mean. Options (c) and (a) are incorrect because neither words describe the outlook of a pessimist.

Hence, Optimist is to cheerful as Pessimist is to Gloomy.