SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 25 September 2024, Shift 3 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 21 of 100

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‘Tame’ is related to ‘Wild’ in the same way as ‘Adjacent’ is related to ‘________’. (The words must be considered as meaningful English words and must not be related to each other based on the number of letters/number of consonants/vowels in the word.)

(a)Neighbouring
(b)Accommodating
(c)Close
(d)Distant

Answer

Why

Correct — D. The first pair is an antonym pair, not a synonym pair.

Rule: Tame is the opposite of Wild, so the second pair must also be opposites.

Adjacent means lying next to, or bordering on, something. Its opposite is Distant — far off, not near.

Option (d) is the one choice that reverses the meaning instead of restating it.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Neighbouring — Neighbouring is a synonym of Adjacent, not its opposite. Option (a) is the trap for anyone who reads the first pair as merely related rather than as reversed.
(b)
Accommodating — Accommodating is about willingness to oblige, not about distance. Option (b) changes the dimension of meaning altogether, so it cannot mirror the Tame-Wild reversal.
(c)
Close — Close is a near-synonym of Adjacent. Option (c) restates the meaning where the relation demands its reverse, and it shares that fault with option (a).

Concept

Word-pair analogies are decided by naming the relation in the first pair before you look at the options. Here the relation is antonymy: Tame and Wild are direct opposites.

The rider printed with the item — that the words are meaningful English words and are not related by counts of letters, consonants or vowels — exists to shut off pattern-hunting and force a semantic reading.

Here the option set splits cleanly: two choices are synonyms of Adjacent, one is unrelated to distance, and exactly one reverses the meaning.

Adjacent is slightly stronger than near — it means sharing a border, or lying immediately next to something. Distant is its plain opposite and wins the item without needing that precision.

Key facts

Tame and Wild are antonyms, which fixes the relation the second pair must copy.
Adjacent means lying next to or bordering on something.
Distant means far away in space or time, the direct reverse of Adjacent.

Study next

Antonym analogies in which both wrong choices on one side are synonyms of the given wordTelling a near-synonym from a true antonym in word-pair itemsThe standard rider on SSC word analogies and what it rules out

Common traps

Naming the relation as related to rather than opposite of, which makes Neighbouring look right.
Picking Close because it feels like an answer, when it means much the same as Adjacent.
Ignoring the printed rider and hunting for a letter-count or vowel-count link.

Antonym word-pairs run at 17 Sep 2024, 12:30, Reasoning Q.6 (Noise : Silence :: Light : Darkness) and at 17 Sep 2024, 16:00, Reasoning Q.22 (Meek : Bold :: Spend : Hoard). 26 Sep 2024, 12:30, Reasoning Q.9 pairs Conceal : Disclose with Identical : Distinct.

In each of those the wrong choices include at least one synonym of the target word.

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