Question

Water : P :: Food : Q
Choose the P and Q combination from the options below to form a meaningful
analogy.

• A. P = Thirst; Q = Hunger
• B. P = Drink; Q = Hunger
• C. P = Thirst; Q = Satiated
• D. P = Wet; Q = Critic

Hint:

Ask what feeling arises when each item is missing: no water gives thirst, no food gives hunger.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Think of this as a 'deficiency to feeling' analogy rather than a simple word association.

Approach: When the body lacks water, it signals this lack through the feeling of thirst. In exactly the same way, when the body lacks food, it signals this lack through the feeling of hunger. The pair (Water, Thirst) and the pair (Food, Hunger) both follow the pattern (resource, signal-of-its-absence).

Testing option B: (Water, Drink) is a means-to-satisfy relation, not a deficiency signal, so Hunger does not fit Food logically in the same slot. Testing option C: Satiated describes the state after eating, the opposite of what is needed here. Testing option D: Wet and Critic have no meaningful resource-to-signal link at all.

Only P = Thirst and Q = Hunger preserve the identical logical structure on both sides of the analogy.

Final answer: option A, i.e. $P = \text{Thirst}$ and $Q = \text{Hunger}$.