GRE Questions

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Alliteration is the one-word substitute for Commencement of words with the same letter.

Alliteration is a figure of speech which is identified as the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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.

Stars are what that come out at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.

A Telephone or an Alarm...

The President is the highest officer in the country. Similarly, Governor is the highest officer of the state.

Hence, Country : President :: State : Governor.

It is Darkness.

If it is more darkness outside, we can see less in that.

After falling it bruises, similarly after knocking it bumps.

Hence, Bruise : Fall :: Bump : Knock.