Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair:
DEFLATION : PRICES
Correct: B
DEFLATION is a general decrease in PRICES. This is a cause-effect or action-object relationship where deflation acts upon prices. Similarly, EROSION is the process of wearing away SOIL (or rock). It's a process that directly affects the integrity or quantity of the object. Inflation affects currency value, but deflation directly implies falling prices. Corruption affects morals, but erosion is a more direct physical process affecting soil, similar to how deflation is an economic process affecting prices.