DISCOVER is to SEARCH as which pair is to its related pair?

• A. Settle : Negotiation
• B. Scalpel : Operation
• C. Heat : Oven
• D. Fly : Bird

Answer: (A)

The relationship being tested is that the first word is the result of the second word’s process. Discover comes from searching—when you search, you may discover. So you’re looking for a pair where the outcome comes from carrying out the second term.

Settle is the result of a negotiation, just like discovery is the result of a search. That makes the pair a direct parallel.

The other options don’t fit this same outcome-from-process idea as cleanly: a scalpel is a tool used in an operation (the instrument, not the result of the process); heat is produced by an oven (a device producing something, but the link isn’t about the outcome of the action in the same way); fly is an ability of a bird (a capability, not an outcome of doing a process).