Test: Verbal Analogies (February 3) - CAT MCQ

Diva (woman singer) plays a leading role in an opera(musical play). Similarly, thespian(actor) plays a leading role in a play.

Salt consists of grains and glass is made up of chips.

Spear and epee are both weapons.
you thrust with a spear
and you fence with an epee.

Pain: highly physical unpleasant sensation caused by illness or injury.
Sedative: promoting calm or inducing sleep.
So, her the pain is an emotion which can be cooled by sedatives.
In option (b) similarly,
Greif: intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death.
Consolation: the comfort received by a person after a loss or disappointment.
Here there is a similar meaning the Greif mainly obtained due to someone's death is emotion can be cooled by consolation. So, it is the appropriate suitable answer.
 

Absence of Light will make Blind and absence of Speech will make Dumb.

Wan refers to pale colour. Similarly, pallid refers to pale complexion.

In English, these two categories often have different names. Pigs turn into pork. Cows turn into beef. Sheep is mutton.

After means succeeding(take over) something and before means preceding(previous or prior) something. Similarly, successor is the one that comes after something while predecessor comes before something. Hence the closest relation is successor:predecessor.

Indigent(poor) is antonym of wealthy. Gauche(ungraceful) is antonym of graceful.

Liquid:litre. Distance is measured by a mile and the liquid is measured the by litre. 
So the answer will be A. 
Weight also measured by the scale.