word-association test
noun
word-as·so·ci·a·tion test
ˈwərd-ə-ˌsō-sē-ˈā-shən- 
-shē-
: a test of personality and mental function in which the subject is required to respond to each of a series of words with the first word that comes to mind or with a word of a specified class of words (such as antonyms)
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In one sketch, Chase plays a man interviewing Pryor for a job, and subjects him to a word-association test.
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Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
But those who had recombined the coaster pieces did better on the word-association test, successfully drawing connections between the sets of words.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2012
An ensuing word-association test devolved into an increasingly dangerous exchange of racial slurs.
—Washington Post, 19 May 2021
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Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
But those who had recombined the coaster pieces did better on the word-association test, successfully drawing connections between the sets of words.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2012
An ensuing word-association test devolved into an increasingly dangerous exchange of racial slurs.
—Washington Post, 19 May 2021
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word-association test
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: a test of personality and mental function in which the subject is required to respond to each of a series of words with the first word that comes to mind or with a word of a specified class of words (as antonyms)
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