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Word analogies – practice for Years 2–6

Sample questions on Word analogies with the right answer and a worked solution, from easy to hard. In the Pickles Academy app a child gets new questions of the same kind every time, so they can't just learn the answers by heart.

Subject
Logic
Year
Years 2–6
Curriculum area
Sequences and patterns

Question types: Complete the pair

Rule: Word analogies

Find how the first pair is linked (young animal, opposite, home, part of a whole) and find a word linked the same way.

Example: dog → puppy, cat → kitten. day → night, hot → cold. finger → hand, leaf → tree.

Watch out: A word that merely goes with the given word is not enough: it must be linked to it the same way as in the pattern.

Sample questions

  1. Question 1 Easy

    Complete in the same way: open → closed, big → ?

    1. A) small
    2. B) cowshed
    3. C) empty
    4. D) cold
    5. E) nest
    Show the solution
    Answer: A) small

    How it works: big → small (opposites)

  2. Question 2 Normal

    Complete in the same way: dog → kennel, cow → ?

    1. A) stable
    2. B) closed
    3. C) night
    4. D) cowshed
    5. E) empty
    Show the solution
    Answer: D) cowshed

    How it works: cow → cowshed (where an animal lives)

  3. Question 3 Hard

    Complete in the same way: page → book, brick → ?

    1. A) kennel
    2. B) closed
    3. C) night
    4. D) wall
    5. E) empty
    Show the solution
    Answer: D) wall

    How it works: brick → wall (a part and the whole)

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