Question

Agnostic: Religous::
Salesperson:Persuasive
Secretary: telephone
Hermit:social
corn: crop

For each item, figure out the relationship between these two words?

Can you help explain this to me

Answer 1

Do you know the meaning of each of these words? What is corn? What is a crop? Does corn come out of a can or is it grown in a field? If there is a field of corn grown, what do we call it? A nosegay of corn? A bouquet of corn? An ear of corn? Look up the words.

Answer 2

Each item below starts with a pair of words in CAPITAL LETTERS. For each item, figure out the relationship between these two words. Then decide which choice of the choices (A, B, C, or D) expresses a similar relationship. Write the letter of your choice on the answer line.
Agnostic: Religous::
Salesperson:Persuasive
Secretary: telephone
Hermit:social
corn: crop

Answer 3

just figure out the connection between the 2 pair of words like:
Salesperson: persuasive
salesperson do good in salestalk to persuade customers to purchase the product.. in this case, it is a characteristic of a salesperson to be persuasive.

Secretary: Telephone
what does a secretary do? take the calls right? likewise in order to take the calls, she/he needs a telephone..somewhat like that

corn: crop
example what do you call meat such as pork, beef, chicken, sheep.. They belong to a category called livestock..likewise corn is a crop..because its a cultivated plant.

just look at the choices...and look for the connection...:)

Answer 4

http://www.teachervision.com/vocabulary/reading-comprehension/6697.html

http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Three-Step%20Method.pdf