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Choose the word that best completes the analogy: OCTOGENARIAN is to EIGHTIES as NONAGENARIAN is to .

1. NINETIES
2. SEVENTIES
3. NINE YEARS
4. HUNDREDS

Answer

A. NINETIES

Solution

An OCTOGENARIAN is in his or her eighties; a NONAGENARIAN is in his or her nineties.

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