Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair:
GAUCHE : ELEGANCE
Correct: A
GAUCHE means lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward, which is the antithesis or lack of ELEGANCE. The relationship is 'a quality that defines the absence or opposite of the second term'. Similarly, DEFT means neatly skillful and quick in one's movements, which is the opposite or absence of CLUMSINESS. Verbose is the opposite of brevity. Inert is the opposite of movement. All three options (A, B, C) follow this pattern. However, 'gauche' specifically refers to social awkwardness or lack of grace, which 'deft' to 'clumsiness' (physical grace) is a very close parallel in terms of expressing a deficiency in a particular attribute. 'Verbose' is a lack of brevity, 'inert' is a lack of movement. Deftness is the opposite of clumsiness, just as elegance is the opposite of being gauche. Sanguine is synonym of optimism.