Location or Situation - SSAT Elementary Level Verbal

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Complete this analogy.

Surf is to water as                     .

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“Surf,” when used as verb, means “ride on the crest of a wave, typically while riding on a surfboard.” So, one surfs on the surface of water, and we need to pick out an answer choice in which the first word is an activity, and the second word is the environment in or surface on which that activity typically takes place. While “ski is to snow” and “swim is to lava” might each look like a potentially correct answer, one does not usually swim in lava, and would not be advised to, so “swim is to lava” cannot be the correct answer. However, one can ski on snow, just as one can surf on water, so “ski is to snow” is the correct answer.

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