Role-specific Verbal Intelligence Interview Questions & Answers:

1. Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it fits.
RAPETEKA
A. city
B. fruit
C. bird
D. vegetable

Correct answer: bird (parakeet)

2. Find the answer that best completes the analogy
people : democracy :: wealthy :
A. oligarchy
B. oligopoly
C. plutocracy
D. timocracy
E. autocracy

Correct answer: plutocracy

3. Find the answer that best completes the analogy
languages : meaning :: philology :
A. erudition
B. philosophy
C. ethics
D. semantics
E. grammar

Correct answer: semantics

4. Which one of the sets of letters below can be arranged into a five letter English word.
A. A T R U N
B. P O D E B
C. R N A S L
D. M O H A T
E. E T L R N

Correct answer: R N A S L (snarl)

5. What is the missing letter?
E C O
B A B
G B N
D B ?

Correct answer: H
Explanation: Convert each letter to its numerical equivalent in the alphabet e.g. the letter "C" is assigned the number "3". Afterwards, for each row, multiply the numerical equivalents of the first two columns in order to calculate the letter in the third column.

6. Find two words, one from each group, that are closest in meaning.
Group A
raise
floor
stairs
Group B
top
elevate
basement

A. raise and elevate
B. raise and top
C. floor and basement
D. stairs and top
E. floor and elevate

Correct answer: raise and elevate

7. Negative : positive :: public : ?
► society
► private
► loneliness
► separate

► private

8. As bold as lion : as sharp as?
☛ knife
☛ razor
☛ cutter
☛ sword

► razor

9. Soldiers for army : scouts for
☛ team
☛ troop
☛ police
☛ ranger

► troop

10. Lectures for course : class for?
☛ boys
☛ men
☛ crowd
☛ student

► student

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11. flower for bunch : deer for?
☛ herd
☛ stable
☛ group
☛ room