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Choose the word that best completes the analogy: PYROMANIAC is to FIRE as KLEPTOMANIAC is to .

1. STEALING
2. LYING
3. SHOPPING
4. GAMBLING

Answer

A. STEALING

Solution

A PYROMANIAC has a compulsion to set fires; a KLEPTOMANIAC has a compulsion to steal.

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