Comparatively Analogous Trivia Quiz

Answer: Chisel : Sculptor

The relationship here is pretty straightforward. A scalpel is a tool used by a surgeon, while a chisel is a tool used by a sculptor.

As for the incorrect answers, a brush is a tool, but it's not used by a canvas. A gavel is a similar implement, but it's used IN a courtroom not by a courtroom. A compass shows direction, but direction is not the one who uses it.

Answer: Referee : Contest

An arbiter is someone who helps settle or judge a dispute. In the same way, a referee oversees a contest and ensures that the rules are followed, even when they clearly need to get their eyes checked.

An author writes a novel, a witness provides testimony, and a chef works in a kitchen. These do not share the same relationship.

Answer: Acclaim : Admiration

When you censure someone, you're expressing your strong disapproval. Meanwhile, when you acclaim someone, you're atwitter with admiration. Both pairs describe actions that communicate a particular judgment or express a particular attitude.

Punish doesn't work, because condemning someone expresses disapproval, while punishing someone imposes a penalty. Criticizing something can cause an argument, but the relationship is not expression to attitude. You can praise an achievement, but again achievement is not an attitude.

Answer: Alleviate : Distress

Mitigating something means making it less severe or intense. In a similar way, alleviating distress relieves it or makes it less severe. Both verbs reduce the intensity of an undesirable condition.

Exaggerating the importance of something and aggravating a conflict are quite the opposite of what we're going for here. They're making something seem more important or making something more severe. Prolonging a duration does not change severity or intensity.

Answer: Marble : Sculpture

More sculptures for you to ponder. Vellum is just a material traditionally used to produce manuscripts. Marble is another material, this one traditionally used to produce sculptures. Both pairs connect the material with an artistic work made from it.

So we're dealing with the material and a finished product of the material. A painter is a person who works with a canvas, and a potter is someone who works with clay. Meanwhile, spilling ink is just a messy proposition.

Answer: Levee : Flooding

A palisade is a defensive barrier that is constructed to protect against an attack. A levee is a barrier built to help protect an area from flooding. So, the shared relationship is a structure designed to guard against a given threat.

While a lighthouse can provide help to a ship, it's not protecting AGAINST a ship. The other two incorrect answers are, for the most part, nonsensical.

Answer: Rudder : Direction

Thermostats control temperature. Rudders control the direction of a ship.

A gauge can measure pressure, especially if it's a pressure gauge. A compass is used in navigation. And a brake can help you stop. None of those really show the relationship between an object and what that object controls.

Answer: Styptic : Bleeding

An anodyne is a substance that relieves pain. Similarly, a styptic is an agent that reduces bleeding. Both are substances used to alleviate a physical condition.

Variolation is a precursor to vaccines, involving intentionally giving someone smallpox and basically hoping for the best. Poison didn't enter into it, unless the doctor really didn't like you. Borborygmi are gurgling sounds made by your digestive tract, and kumis (or koumiss) is a fermented dairy drink that sounds much more likely to make a person depressed and certainly not treat a mental health condition.

Answer: Constellation : Stars

An archipelago is a group or chain of islands. A constellation is a group of stars. So, both pairs describe a collective whole and the individual items that make it up.

An admiral oversees sailors, learning can happen within an athenaeum, and florists create bouquets.

Answer: Euphemism : Bluntness

Circumlocution is the use of roundabout or indirect language to avoid making a direct statement. In the same way, a euphemism is a mild or indirect expression used in place of a blunt or possibly unpleasant one. In both pairs, the first term describes a form of expression that avoids the quality named in the second.

Literarily is literally an adverb that makes the entire would-be analogy invalid. A parody can borrow content or style from an original work, but it doesn't necessarily lack originality. Hyperbole involves deliberate exaggeration, but inaccuracy is not something hyperbole is trying to avoid. In fact, quite the opposite.