SSAT Verbal Review Game!

Terms & Study Skills

100

What is the definition of a prefix?

A prefix is a letter or multiple letters at the beginning of a word that can help determine its meaning.

200

What is the definition of a root?

A root is a part of a word that gives a word its main meaning.

300

What is the definition of a characteristic analogy?

One word describes the other word

400

What is the definition of an irregular analogy?

Irregular analogies have odd, unpredictable relationships that must be extremely specific to define. They’re everything that’s not characteristic, uncharacteristic, or component.

500

What are 3 methods to help answer questions correctly on the SSAT?

Context clues, process of elimination, making a guess, studying vocabulary, identifying roots/prefixes, and much more!

Vocabulary Practice

100

Precede

come before in order or position.

200

novel

new or unusual in an interesting way.

300

destitute

without the basic necessities of life.

400

repugnant

extremely distasteful; unacceptable.

500

egress

the action of going out of or leaving a place.

Select the Synonym

100

PURSUE 

(A) browse 

(B) chase 

(C) escape 

(D) discover 

(E) arrest

(B) chase

200

STANCE

(A) section

(B) position

(C) trend

(D) question

(E) portion

(B) position

300

FRUGAL 

(A) breakable 

(B) economical 

(C) sweet 

(D) wise 

(E) rich

(B) economical

400

4. DISCOURSE 

(A) deviation 

(B) loss 

(C) claim 

(D) investigation 

(E) conversation

(E) Conversation

500

BURGEON 

(A) decrease 

(B) cancel 

(C) soak 

(D) thrive 

(E) cover

(D) Thrive

Analogous Relationships

100

Dog:Bark :: Cow:Moo is an example of which analogous relationship?

1. Provider/Provision

2. Reciprocal

3. Characteristic

4. User/tool

3. Characteristic

200

Parent: Child:: Tree: Sapling is an example of which analogous relationship?

1. Source

2. Cause/Effect
3. Reciprocal

4. Object/Function

Reciprocal

300

Complete the Source analogy:

_____:Pencil

Any reasonable answer (factory, trees, anything that can produce a pencil)

400

Which analogy best fits the preceding one?

Storm: Hail:: 

A) Purse: Dress

B) Therapist: Treatment

C) Monotony: Boredom

D) Hahaha idk :3

C) Monotony: Boredom. This one was tricky! It is a cause/effect analogy. A storm causes hail, and monotony (doing repetitive things) causes boredom.

Therapist: treatment is an example of a provider/provision relationship, and purse: dress is an example of a part/whole relationship, in which they are both parts of an outfit.

500

Name 3 analogous relationships and give an example of each.

:D

Select the Analogy

100

Bench is to park as 

(A) carpenter is to house 

(B) chair is to parlor 

(C) tree is to landscape 

(D) alcove is to arbor 

(E) restaurant is to table

(B) chair is to parlor

200

Diminish is to eliminate as 

(A) suggest is to command 

(B) infer is to reference 

(C) rhetoric is to conversation 

(D) text is to type 

(E) assert is to question

(A) suggest is to command

300

Worker is to colleague as 

(A) teacher is to principal 

(B) employer is to management 

(C) company is to corporation 

(D) parent is to student 

(E) citizen is to compatriot

(E) Citizen is to compatriot

400

Investigate is to ascertain as 

(A) sequester is to seize 

(B) conceive is to concept 

(C) requisition is to acquire 

(D) obscure is to discover 

(E) scout is to mystery

(B) conceive is to concept

500

Voracious is to insatiable as 

(A) hunger is to thirst 

(B) stubborn is to incorrigible 

(C) rapacious is to glutton 

(D) tumultuous is to serene 

(E) seditious is to entertaining

(C) rapacious is to glutton