Analogy Questions

      It is a case of shifting as given below:

      1  2  3  4  5                    2  1  3  5  4

      O  F  T  E  N   →  F  O  T  N  E

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       1  2  3  4  5                   5  4  3  1  2

1.    H  E  A  R  T       →      T  R  A  H  E    

2.    O  P  E  N  S  →  S  N  E  O  P

        1  2  3  4  5         2  1  3  5  4

3.    R  I  S  K  Y  →   I  R  S  Y  K

4.    F  I  R  S  T  →   I  F  R  S  T

Hence option 3 is correct.

The given words are related in a way that, an optimist is a person whose outlook is cheerful. Similarly, a pessimist is a person whose outlook is gloomy.

The answer is not (b) because a pessimist does not have to be mean. Options (c) and (a) are incorrect because neither words describe the outlook of a pessimist.

Hence, Optimist is to cheerful as Pessimist is to Gloomy.