VOCABULARY AND ANALOGIES FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS:

THE WORDMASTERS CHALLENGE SAMPLES

 Blue Division Samples

GRADE SAMPLE
WORDS

SAMPLE ANALOGIES

3 prairie
rural
scarlet
soil
urban
vein
 

WOODS : ACORN :: ORCHARD:__________________________

( a. peach / b. prairie / c. pine cone / d. apple seed / e. orange )

RURAL : SOIL :: URBAN:_________________________________

( a. prairie / b. apartment / c. pavement / d. bus / e. tractor )

 

5 cascade
forage
mar
gale
plunder
lull
 

SHEEP : FORAGE :: OUTLAWS:___________________________

( a. plunder / b. mar/ c. shoot / d. run / e. graze )

BREEZE : GALE :: TRICKLE:______________________________

( a. lull / b. plunder / c. forage / d. sunshine / e. cascade )

 

7 gnarled
vanquish
infantry
tranquil
grimace
insidious
 

THIEF : SNEAKY::_______________________________________

( a. tree : gnarled / b. day : tranquil / c. disease : insidious /
d. robber : violent / e. loser : vanquished )

PLEASURE : SMILE :: PAIN:______________________________

(a. aspirin /b.  suffer / c. grimace / d. vanquish / e. tranquility )

 

Gold Division Samples 

GRADE SAMPLE
WORDS

SAMPLE ANALOGIES

3 remote
astronomer
ebb
native
alien
wane
 

TIDE : EBB :: MOON:____________________________________

( a. flow / b. astronomer / c. shine / d. wane / e. remote )

NATIVE : ALIEN :: NEARBY:______________________________

(a. odd / b. remote / c. Martian / d. unfriendly / e. stranger )

 

5 rotund
douse
lean
amplify
svelte
quench
 

EXCITEMENT : QUENCH ::_______________________________

(a. prison : escape / b.  music : amplify / c. fire : douse /
d. baby : cuddle / e. food : eat )

BEAUTIFUL : HANDSOME :: SVELTE:_____________________

(a. rotund / b. amplified / c. ugly / d. lean / e. attractive )

 

7 wellspring
antiquated
morass
plumb
maelstrom
novel
 

RIVER : SOURCE :: CREATIVITY:_________________________

(a. maelstrom / b. antique / c. wellspring / d. plumb / e. morass )

ANTIQUATED : NOVEL ::________________________________

( a. fact : fiction / b. broken : new / c. antique : book /
d. old-fashioned : gaudy / e. faded : fresh )


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