Analogy questions: reason - think, accumulate - hoard

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This is a Analogy question. Can u tell me the answer?? Please specify the bridge also.

MEDIATE : MEDDLE ::
(A) reason : think
(B) accumulate : hoard
© neglect : abandon
(D) surpass : cheat
(E) discourage : burden

Thanks

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Hi abhi_ofdoon

I’d choose
(B) accumulate : hoard

I guess the “bridge” you’re looking for would be positive : negative —
“Mediate” and “meddle” have similar meanings in that a third party becomes invoved in a situation, but “mediate” is positive (done to find a peaceful, positive solution) whereas “meddle” is negative (the third party interferes)

“Accumulate” and “hoard” are similar in this respect. You can accumulate things in a positive sense (knowledge, information) but hoard involves an unnecessarily large stock-piling of things, often detrimental to others (negative).

Amy