Parsley Gifted Education Specialist

Here are some analogies from Word Masters you might want to try:  (Scroll down after you try to them to find the answers.  Find the BEST answer whose relationship matches most closely the relationship of the first pair of words.)

1. tree : fir : :    _____________________    (branch : leaf / oak : acorn / flower : tulip / nest : bird / trunk : bark)

2.  backpack : crammed : :  bucket :  ________________________ (brimming, mum, gleaming, hollow, gnarled)

3. dollars : wallet : :    ______________________ (strands : rope / blossoms : garden / bristles : brush / arrows : quiver / prongs : fork)

4.  orphan : family : :   ________________________ (fork : prong / pauper : money / speaker : tirade / blossom : stem / quill : feather)

5.  glance : gaze : :   ___________________________ (gorge : nibble / insist : relent / sip : quaff / shrink : augment / bounce : carom)

 6.  air : balmy : :  lake : _______________________ (tempestuous, mottled, torrential, placid, alluring)

 

Answers:

1.  flower : tulip

2.  brimming

3. arrows : quiver

4. pauper : money

5.  sip : quaff

6. placid 

 Continental Math League Problems:

1.  Paul can buy a dozen cookies for $3.60.   If he spends $18.00 for cookies and sells them for $27.00, how much did he charge for each cookie?

2.  Find the number that Y equals in this problem:  3 x 7 x Y  = 63

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3.  Use 6 of the digits 1-7, each once, to make two 3-digit numbers whose sum is 670 and whose difference is 376.

 

Scroll down for answers:

 

 

1.  45 cents

2.  15

3.  523, 147