NMAT Verbal Ability Answer Key
Set 1: Word Analogies
1. Answer: C. Explanation: Someone who is
HARRIED, or stressed, lacks
EQUANIMITY, or serenity. Likewise,
someone who is DISSOLUTE, meaning
lacking moral restraint, lacks
MODERATION.
2. Answer: B. Explanation: Laconic is
characterized by a lack of words and
parched is characterized by a lack of
moisture.
3. Answer: C. Explanation: Wheat is an
antonym of chaff, and quality is an antonym
of inadequacy.
4. Answer: B. Explanation: A cushion is a
part of a sofa, and a shelf is part of a
bookcase.
5. Answer: C. Explanation: Mean is a
synonym for average, and kind is a synonym
for variety.
6. Answer: C. Explanation: Aesop is known
for writing fables, and Homer is known for
writing epics.
7. Answer: A. Explanation: To outrage is
more intense than to peeve, and to strive is
more intense than to attempt.
8. Answer: A. Explanation: To slight causes
hurt, and to lag causes tardiness.
9. Answer: A. Explanation: Furtive is more
intensely secret, and resonant is more
intensely audible.
10. Answer: B. Explanation: Privy is sharing
in a secret, and sympathetic is sharing in
grief.
11. Answer: A. Explanation: To follow is
less intense than to chase, and to nudge is
less intense than to thrust.
12. Answer: D. Explanation: A marathon is
a long race and hibernation is a lengthy
period of sleep. The answer is not choice a
or b because even though a bear and winter
are related to hibernation, neither completes
the analogy. (Choice c) is incorrect because
sleep and dream are not synonymous.
13. Answer: A. Explanation: This is a classic
function/purpose bridge—the purpose of
MEDICINE is to prevent or cure ILLNESS
in the same way that the purpose of LAW is
to prevent or cure ANARCHY in the
society.
14. Answer: C. Explanation: Scruff is the
back of the neck, and stern is the back of a
boat.
15. Answer: D. Explanation: A principle is
another word for a doctrine, and a living is
another word for livelihood.
16. Answer: D. Explanation: Something
PALTRY lacks SIGNIFICANCE. Does
something BANAL lack ORIGINALITY?
Well, if something is BANAL it is
predictable, so yes. That pair has the same
relation as the stem pair.
17. Answer: D. Explanation: To chatter is to
talk rapidly, and to flutter is to flap rapidly.
18. Answer: A. Explanation: To conjugate
means to pair, and to partition means to
divide.
19. Answer: B. Explanation: Chagrin can be
the result of criticism, and sag is the result of
pressure
20. Answer: B. Explanation: When you
EXTORT something, you obtain it by force
or threats. To EXTORT is to OBTAIN
dishonestly. Plagiarism is borrowing
material from another writer without giving
him or her acknowledgment. That would fit
the description of borrowing dishonestly.
21. Answer: D. Explanation: Pallid means
lacking in color, and tactless means lacking
diplomacy.
22. Answer: B. Explanation: To vaunt
means to boast, and to skewer means to
criticize.
23. Answer: C. Explanation: A kennel
houses dogs, and an aerie houses bird. 24.
Answer: A. Explanation: Something
SODDEN is very wet, so it is, by definition,
extremely MOIST. This is a bridge of
DEGREE. Similarly, something MAUDLIN
is, by definition, extremely
SENTIMENTAL.
25. Answer: D. Explanation: A group of
lions is called a pride. A group of fish swim
 in a shoal. Teacher (choice a) and student and never named in the passage. Spain (C) and
(choice b) refer to another meaning of the Portugal (D) are also incorrect.
word school. The answer is not (choice c) 13. C. A peninsula is a piece of land connected
because self-respect has no obvious to the mainland by an isthmus and projecting
relationship to this particular meaning of into the ocean such that it is surrounded on three
school. sides by water. A peninsula is not a coast (A); it
26. Answer: B. Explanation: A hilt is part of is not found inland (B); and it is not a border
a sword, and a needle is part of the compass. (D).
27. Answer: D. Explanation: By definition, a 14. C. Topography means the physical features
MAVEN, meaning expert, has expertise. of a land mass. It does not mean coastline (A),
Likewise, a SUPPLICANT, or humble mountain range (B), or islands (D).
beggar, has HUMILITY. 15. A. Longitudes are imaginary geographical
28. Answer: B. Explanation: To defer is a lines running north and south. Latitudes run east
synonym of to postpone, and to proffer is a and west. The other choices do not equal either
synonym of to tender. latitude or longitude in direction.
29. Answer: B. Explanation: To gall is to 16. A. "Quagmire" means literally a bog or
vex, and to hex is to jinx. marsh, and figuratively an involved situation
30. Answer: A. Explanation: A mercenary difficult to escape; entanglement is a synonym,
performs a task for wages, and a dilettante more specifically similar than the other choices.
does for enjoyment. 17. B. "Terrestrial" means land. No choice here
offers a synonym for "marine," e.g.,
NMAT Verbal Ability Answer Key nautical/naval/water/seagoing, and no other
Set 2: Reading Comprehension choices match either marine or terrestrial.
1. B. 18. B.
2. B. 19. C.
3. B. 20. B.
4. A. 21. A.
5. A. 22. B.
6. A. 23. D.
7. B. 24. B.
8. B. 25. C.
9. B. 26. C.
10. D. 27. B.
11. A. Meridians are imaginary geographical 28. A.
circles intersecting the poles. Imaginary lines 29. C.
parallel to the equator (B) are latitudes. The 30. D.
International Date Line is a specific meridian,
not an area (C). It is not a land mass (D) as it NMAT Inductive Reasoning Answer Key
crosses both water and land. Set 1: Figure Series
12. B. The passage was found near 50 degrees S 1. D.
latitude. Latitudes are measured horizontally, in 2. B.
relation to the equator or central imaginary line, 3. B.
equidistant between the North and South Poles. 4. B.
Longitudes are measured vertically. Greenwich 5. C.
(A), the location of zero degrees longitude, 6. C.
adopted as the global standard, is both incorrect 7. D.
8. E.
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10. A. 19. D.
11. D. 20. A.
12. D. 21. B.
13. A. 22. D.
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15. D. 24. C.
16. C. 25. D.
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Set 2: Figure Grouping 28. B.
1. D. 29. C.
2. D.
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NMAT Quantitative Aptitude Answer Key

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NMAT Perceptual Acuity Answer Key

Set 1: Hidden Figure
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