>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>I am trying to help my son in 5th grade and can not figure this out.
>>>
>>>He has the following words:
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>>>accomplice, exultant, remorseless, sedate, apprehension, ponderous, revulsion.
>>>
>>>And we need to figure out this sentence:
>>>
>>>Sweet is to sour as ... is to light.
>>>
>>>We figured out all other examples, but this one I can not understand using the words I listed. I've checked each word in the dictionary as they are not easy to me as well.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>Try ponderous.
>
>That's what we used as well by the exclusion method, but can you explain the logic?
One of the definitions of ponderous is
"of great weight; heavy; massive."
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