Help with the following analogy

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"Analogy questions test your ability to recognize the relationship between the words in a word pair and to recognize when two word pairs display parallel relationships. To answer an analogy question, you must formulate the relationship between the words in the given word pair and then select the answer containing words related to one another in most nearly the same way. Some examples are rel

"Analogy questions test your ability to recognize the relationship between the words in a word pair and to recognize when two word pairs display parallel relationships. To answer an analogy question, you must formulate the relationship between the words in the given word pair and then select the answer containing words related to one another in most nearly the same way. Some examples are rel

Okay, I admit I had to look up Stygian, but it said it meant dark, so the two words are synonyms.

Mr. M, don't you think that fortuitous and accidental are a better match?

Thanks,

Barb who learned a new word today

Not I, sorry. Stygian is extremely dark and absymal is extremely low. Fortuitous and accidental are more closely synonymous in intensity.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for clarifying.

(But it still seems like a tricky question!)