Mensa Verbal Reasoning 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which pair of words has the most SIMILAR relationship to TEPID : BOILING?
- Warm : Cold
- Damp : Soaked (Correct answer)
- Dark : Dim
- Fast : Swift
Correct answer: Damp : Soaked
Tepid (slightly warm) and boiling represent a mild versus extreme degree of the same quality, just as damp and soaked represent mild versus extreme wetness.
Question 2: PERNICIOUS most nearly means:
- Cautious
- Harmful (Correct answer)
- Stubborn
- Perceptive
Correct answer: Harmful
Pernicious means having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
Question 3: Rearrange the words to form a logical sentence: 'quickly | ran | to | the | fire | children | away | the | from'
- The fire ran quickly away from the children.
- The children ran quickly away from the fire. (Correct answer)
- Away from the fire, quickly the children ran.
- Children quickly ran the fire away from.
Correct answer: The children ran quickly away from the fire.
The grammatically correct and logically coherent sentence is 'The children ran quickly away from the fire.'
Question 4: Which word CANNOT be formed using only the letters in LEGISLATURE?
- GRILL (Correct answer)
- ELITE
- RULES
- TIGER
Correct answer: GRILL
GRILL requires two L's, but the word LEGISLATURE contains only one L, making it impossible to form.
Question 5: The statement 'All that glitters is not gold' means:
- Gold does not glitter.
- Glittering things are never valuable.
- Attractive appearances can be deceiving. (Correct answer)
- Only gold is truly valuable.
Correct answer: Attractive appearances can be deceiving.
The proverb warns that something appealing or shiny in appearance is not necessarily as valuable or genuine as it seems.
Question 6: Which word is the best synonym for LOQUACIOUS?
- Logical
- Talkative (Correct answer)
- Ludicrous
- Listless
Correct answer: Talkative
Loquacious means tending to talk a great deal; garrulous or wordy.
Question 7: In the sequence BCEF GHIJ KLMN, what comes next?
- OPQR (Correct answer)
- OPRS
- NOPR
- PQRS
Correct answer: OPQR
Each group skips one letter (A is skipped, then nothing is skipped—actually the pattern is four consecutive letters starting after a gap: BC-EF (skip D), GH-IJ (no skip within), the groups are BCEF GHIJ KLMN OPQR following sequential four-letter blocks.
Mensa Verbal Reasoning 5
Which pair of words has the most SIMILAR relationship to TEPID : BOILING?