SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 26 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 9 of 100

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‘Conceal’ is related to ‘Disclose’ in the same way as ‘Identical’ 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)Similar
(b)Analogous
(c)Distinct
(d)Homogeneous

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Name the relation in the given pair before you look at the choices.

Conceal means to hide. Disclose means to reveal. The pair is an antonym pair, not a likeness pair.

So the blank must be the opposite of Identical, which means exactly alike.

Distinct means separate, different, not alike — the opposite the relation demands, and that is option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Similar — Similar means alike in most respects, a near-synonym of identical rather than its opposite. It fails the relation the first pair sets up.
(b)
Analogous — Analogous means comparable or corresponding, which again points at likeness. Conceal to Disclose is an opposition, so a likeness word cannot fill the blank.
(d)
Homogeneous — Homogeneous means uniform in composition, the same kind throughout. That is a third way of saying alike, and the item wants the reverse.

Concept

Word analogies are solved by writing the relation out as a sentence before touching the options. Here the sentence is: Conceal is the opposite of Disclose.

That single sentence removes three of the four choices at once, because Similar, Analogous and Homogeneous all mean some version of alike.

The bracketed rider — treat the words as meaningful English words, not as strings to be counted for letters, consonants or vowels — is SSC telling you the relation is semantic. Do not go hunting for a letter pattern.

Three of the four options are near-synonyms of Identical, which is the design. When an analogy's options cluster like that, the odd one out is usually the answer, but confirm it against the relation rather than on the pattern alone.

Key facts

Conceal means to hide and Disclose means to make known, so the relation is opposition.
Identical means exactly the same, and its opposite is Distinct, meaning separate or different.
Similar, Analogous and Homogeneous all express likeness and none of them opposes Identical.

Study next

Word-pair analogies built on part-to-whole rather than oppositionOdd-one-out items drawing on the same synonym and antonym vocabularyDegree pairs such as warm and hot, which are neither synonyms nor opposites

Common traps

Reading Identical and reaching for its closest synonym out of habit
Choosing Homogeneous because it sounds the most technical of the four
Hunting for a letter or vowel pattern that the bracketed rider explicitly rules out

The same bracketed rider about meaningful English words appears on Reasoning Q.9 of 11 Sep 2024 (12:30), which runs 'Lavish is related to Austere in the same way as Prejudiced is related to ______'. The word-pair form of the same idea is at Reasoning Q.10 on 9 Sep 2024 (12:30).

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