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HOLY SLOB!!!!
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What word completes the following analogy?
HOLY : SLOB as LOW : ??
HOLY : SLOB as LOW : ??
Hint
In this one, the relationship between letters is important; the meaning of the words is not important.Answer
OLDPair up the letters of the alphabet as follows: A = 1, Z = 26; B = 2, Y =25; C = 3, X = 24; ... M = 13 , N =14. So, we have a correspondence between 13 pairs of letters: ( A, Z) , (B, Y), ( C, X), (D,W), (E, V), (F, U), (G, T), (H, S), (I, R), (J, Q), (K, P), (L, O), (M, N).
Thus:
H = S
O = L
L = O
Y = B
and...
L = O
O= L
W= D
So, the whole analogy is :
HOLY: SLOB as LOW : OLD
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