Analogies

Read each sentence. Determine the meaning of the bold word. Next look at the analogy below the sentence. Decide how the first two words are related. In this exercise the first two words will be either antonyms (opposites) or synonyms (words with similar meanings). Next choose a word from the word box to complete each analogy. If the first two words are antonyms you will look in the word box for an antonym of the bold word. Likewise, if the first two words are synonyms you will look for a synonym of the bold word in the word box.
loudly perfect clumsily
support weird looked
dull crazily cool
not many lengthy unusual
nodding nastiest light

Example:  The dogs were dozing in their usual places by the fire with the knock came.

find : locate :: dozing  : _____nodding________

  1. Duffy and Winston were fully roused by then and began barking wildly.

think : believe  :: wildly : ______________________

  1. I opened the door a few inches and peered into the darkness.

important : essential :: peered : ______________________

  1. A man stood in the shadows, back a ways from the cabin.

    perish : survive :: shadows  :  ______________________

  2. He was dressed like no white man I had ever seen, in tattered clothing and what looked like animal skins.

above : below :: tattered  : ______________________

  1. The dogs stopped barking and stood quietly, staring at the stranger.

quiet : loud :: quietly  :  ______________________

  1. It gleamed, shiny and golden.

wealthy : poor :: gleamed  :  _______________________

  1. My voice seemed strange to me.

vanish : disappear :: strange  :  ______________________

  1. The hours had turned into days, long days filled with listening and looking for Pa.

fancy : elegant :: long  :  ______________________

  1. That was the worst part.

elude : avoid :: worst   :  ______________________

  1. The man held the cup awkwardly with two hands and gulped.

old : aged :: awkwardly  :  ______________________

  1. But we didn't really believe it, and after a few days we ran out of things to say.

construct : build :: few  :  _______________________

  1. He was strange . . . but I had a feeling about him.

live : exist :: strange  :  ______________________

  1. I'll get us some warm clothes.

patient : anxious :: warm  :  ______________________

  1. I thought about how she had clung to the dogs the last few days for comfort.

confirm : verify :: comfort   :  ______________________

----------Key----------

  1. crazily
  2. looked
  3. light
  4. perfect
  5. loudly
  6. dull
  7. unusual or weird
  8. lengthy
  9. nastiest
  10. clumsily
  11. not many
  12. weird or unusual
  13. cool
  14. support