SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 14 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 2 of 100

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In the following question, select the related word from the given alternatives Plaintiff : Complaint :: Petitioner : ?

(a)Plea
(b)Allegation
(c)Verdict
(d)Petition

Answer

Why

Correct — D.
Rule: party : the document that party files.

A plaintiff starts a civil suit by filing a complaint.
A petitioner approaches the court by filing a petition.

Petitioner : Petition repeats Plaintiff : Complaint → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Plea — Plea, in its strict legal sense, is an accused person's answer to a charge: guilty or not guilty. A headline may call a petition a plea, but what a petitioner files is a petition.
(b)
Allegation — Allegation is a claim of wrongdoing written inside a complaint or petition. It is part of the document's content, not the document the party files.
(c)
Verdict — Verdict is the finding at the end of a case, given by a court or a jury. It is delivered to the parties, not filed by one of them.

Concept

A legal-roles analogy pairs a party with the document that sets the case moving. The first pair fixes the direction: person first, document second.

The petitioner is named after the document, so once the relation is clear the answer is petition. The other options are legal words that belong to someone else or to another stage: the accused's plea, the claims inside a complaint, the court's verdict.

Indian civil procedure calls the plaintiff's opening document a plaint (Order VII of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908). The stem's word is complaint, and the relation is the same either way.

Key facts

A plaintiff files a plaint or complaint to begin a civil suit.
A petitioner files a petition, such as a writ petition.
A plea is an accused person's answer to a criminal charge: guilty or not guilty.
A verdict is the finding delivered at the end of a trial.

Study next

Legal roles and their counterparts: plaintiff and defendant, petitioner and respondentWords for court documents: plaint, petition, affidavit, summonsPerson : what that person produces analogies, such as Author : Book

Common traps

Choosing plea because headlines use the word for a petition
Choosing allegation because a complaint is made up of allegations

Here the relation is a party and the document that party files.

15 Sep 2025, 16:00, Reasoning Q.2 uses the same 'select the related word' format with abstract nouns: Justice : Equity :: Governance : ?, keyed Legitimacy.

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