Question:medium

The words in the bottom row are related in the same way as the words in the top row. Fill in the blank.
Rose, Flower, Plant
Flat, House, ____

Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • City
  • Tent
  • Building
  • Village
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The Correct Option is C

Approach Solution - 1

Looking at the top pair the other way round: Plant is the umbrella category, Flower is one type of plant, and Rose is one specific type of flower, each step downward gets more specific, or read upward, each step gets broader. The bottom row starts at the specific end with Flat, and House is the next broader category, since a flat is a unit inside a house. Continuing that same upward broadening, the next, still broader category that a house falls under, alongside shops, offices, and other structures, is a building.

City and Village describe a broader area or settlement made of many houses together, not a broader category of 'house' the way plant is a broader category of 'flower', so they sit at the wrong scale. Tent is an unrelated kind of shelter and does not sit above house in the same hierarchy at all.

Therefore, the correct answer is Building.

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Approach Solution -2

A direct way to check this analogy is a containment test, does the earlier term physically sit inside, or count as one instance of, the term being tested. A Rose is literally one instance of a Flower, and a Flower is literally one instance of a Plant. Applying the same test starting from Flat, a Flat is literally one unit inside a House, so the answer should be a term for which a House itself counts as one instance.

  1. City: a House is not itself "one instance of" a City in the same direct way a Flower is one instance of a Plant, a City contains many separate houses side by side rather than a House being a type of City, so the containment test fails.
  2. Tent: a House is not a type of Tent at all, there is no containment relationship between the two, the test fails immediately.
  3. Building: a House is indeed one instance, one type, of the broader category Building, exactly the same "is one instance of" relationship that links Flower to Plant, the containment test passes cleanly.
  4. Village: similar to City, a House is one of many houses that make up a Village, not a type of Village itself, so the containment test fails here too.

Only Building passes the same containment test that links Flower to Plant in the original pair.

Therefore, the correct answer is Building.

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