Verbal Classification test presents a set of three words. The student is asked to select a fourth word from a list of 5 words that goes with the set of original words. An example is shown below: Generally, answering verbal classification questions requires the following skills:

• Fluency of English words. The more words you know and understand, the better you will be able to handle the questions;
• Inductive reasoning skill, i.e. the skill to go from the specific to the general. In this case, students will need to analyze the three given words and find what are common between them.
  2.  Review the three words in bold letters and determine why they are similar. Select the word from the five choices that is most similar to the bold words.
  stormyrainywindy

  Your Answer:

  A) icy

  B) happy

  C) pleasant

  D) summer

  E) ice

  [Correct Answer]:A

  Hint:

  Weather related adjectives (all ends with a 'y').
• Deductive reasoning skill, i.e. the skill to go from the general to the specific. After finding what are common between the three given words, find the one from the five choices that goes with them.

Usually, the words are not difficult. Once you find what are common between the three given words, there is little difficulty in choosing the one that goes with them from the answer choices. The most important skill in answering this type of question is how to find what is common between the three given words or how to classify words. Below are some of the relationships that you may consider in word classification:

• Are they the same or similar meaning?
  3.  Review the three words in bold letters and determine why they are similar. Select the word from the five choices that is most similar to the bold words.
  componentsectionpart

  A) class

  B) piece

  C) complete

  D) whole

  E) school

  [Correct Answer]:B
• Are they the same category of things(vegetables, fruits, flowers, metals, gems, plants, planets, animals, mammals, bugs, cats, fish, ...) or for same/similar usage?
  4.  Review the three words in bold letters and determine why they are similar. Select the word from the five choices that is most similar to the bold words.
  benchseatsaddle

  A) living

  B) restroom

  C) sofa

  D) bed

  E) sit

  [Correct Answer]:C
• Are they all part of something? Are they all related to something? ...
  5.  Review the three words in bold letters and determine why they are similar. Select the word from the five choices that is most similar to the bold words.
  sheetquiltcomforter

  A) warm

  B) pillow

  C) cold

  D) bedroom

  E) oven

  [Correct Answer]:B