Nostalgia is to anticipation as ____________ is to _____________ Which one of the following options maintains a similar logical relation in the above sentence? A. Present, past B. Future, past C. Past, future D. Future, present

GATE 2021 · General Aptitude · Word Pairs · medium

Answer: C. Past, future

1. Analyze the anchor relationship: Nostalgia is associated with the Past. Anticipation is associated with the Future. So the template is: [emotion for past] is to [emotion for future] as [past] is to [future].
2. Match with options: Option A (Present, past) — wrong order and uses 'present'. Option B (Future, past) — reversed order. Option C (Past, future) — correct order matching the analogy. Option D (Future, present) — wrong words.