Test Your Word Power!

By William F. Bultas

See how many of these brain teasers you can solve. Puzzles 1-15 are analogies, & take the form of W is to X as Y is to Z, which is written as W : X :: Y : Z. Problems 16-25 are odd man out puzzles. Choose the word that does not belong with the others. For all of the puzzles, guess if you are not sure of the answer. When you're finished, you can rank yourself with the scale below. Feel free to add a few points to your score if your native language is not English, and/or if you are under age 18. You'll find the answers on this page. Work those verbal neurons, & have fun!


Number Correct         Verbal Skill Ranking
 0-5                    Need Improvement 
 6-10                   Average 
11-15                   Above Average 
16-20                   Erudite 
21-25                   Professor of Knowledge

1. ruby : red :: topaz :

brown yellow red green blue

2. donkey & horse : mule :: lion & tiger :

thrag panther liger lion leopard

3. Cribbage : cards :: Go :

chips swords daggers arrows stones

4. clever : pawky :: entourage :

ambush surroundings leaves amphitheater trees

5. neuter : worker :: riata

farmer lariat kinsman nurse fork

6. yen : Japan :: kip :

Laos Belize Iraq Ecuador France

7. Hawthorne : people :: Doppler :

air horses waves grain dogs

8. ninny : sage :: pugilist :

pacifist anarchist capitalist communist mercantilist

9. Nazi : Nazirite :: stalag :

prison gulag stalagmite jail swamp

10. chandelier : ceiling :: stalagmite :

floor ceiling roof bottom top

11. poltroon : cowardly :: pixy :

mischievous salty hapless partisan prim

12. obese : fat :: polydactyl :

arms/legs brothers/sisters wives/husbands fingers/toes days/nights

13. gibe : congratulate :: harangue :

incite delay bless devour purchase

14. undertow : riptide :: large :

minute small enormous big tall

15. breeze : zephyr :: injury :

death coma scrape fall heal

16. crabby grisly grouchy surly cranky

17. scepter wand rod crown staff

18. sorcerer magician wizard necromancer mage

19. pair triune duo couple brace

20. couch describe sofa formulate express

21. puritan voluptuary profligate debauchee libertine

22. steadfast capricious fickle whimsical wayward

23. finch trout perch salmon bass

24. scorn contempt radix disdain despisal

25. viscid sticky glutinous adhesive ovate

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