Word to word association is another method used for personality testing and psychometric .Other methods are Sentence making and sentence completion. SSB is likely to employ this in future instead of Sentence making presently in vogue.

1. Word to Word Association
By
Col Mukteshwar Prasad(Retd)

2. Word Association Lookup
The project «Word Associations Network» gives you an opportunity to lookup
associations with a given word.
Word associations arise in the human’s mind when reading or saying a word, or just thinking
about the word.
For better usability each word is accompanied by the explanatory articles
from WordNet lexical database.
The Description of the Project
"Word Associations Network" is inherently an ideographic dictionary or
thesaurus.
The project consists of three basic components:
an associative dictionary,
an explanatory dictionary, and
a picture dictionary.
The associative dictionary, the dictionary of associations, or analogical dictionary
groups the words of the language by psychological perception, sense and
meaning.
The explanatory dictionary provides lexical meaning for every word.
This dictionary often provides examples on the usage of a word. Picture vocabulary
or visual dictionary contains graphic illustrations that depict the meaning of words.

3. The Definition of Word
Association
Association is one of the basic mechanisms of memory.
They can be called natural classifiers of the conceptual content
of the vocabulary of the language.
Ideas and concepts, which are available to the memory of a
man are related.
This relationship is based on the past experience of a man and,
in the final analysis, more or less accurately reproduces
objectively existing relationship between the phenomena of the
real world.
Under certain conditions, a revival of one idea or concept is
accompanied by a revival of others ideas correlated with it.
This phenomenon is called the association (a term proposed in
the XVIII century by Locke).
Based on the book V. V. Morkovkin «Ideographic Dictionaries»
(1970)

4. Classification of Associations
Since Aristotle the people distinguish association by similarity, contrast and
contiguity.
Association by similarity is based on the fact that the associated
phenomena have some common features.
It represents a result of generalization of the conditioned connection in which similar stimuli
evoke similar reactions (for example, excitement of synonymic series with actualization of
one of the synonyms: woe - unhappiness, sorrow, grief, sadness, and so on).
Origin of Association by contrast is explained by the presence in
phenomena of opposite features.
The physiological nature of the association by contrast is in the "mutual induction of neural
processes when strong stimuli ... cause great excitement in the beginning, and then
successive inhibition in the same regions of the cerebral cortex. As a result, in the
future one of the contrasting stimuli can cause immediately after it something that was
caused before by another stimulus (contrast with given one)" (for example, the
phenomenon of antonyms: grief - joy, happiness – unhappiness, and so on).
Association by contiguity comes into existence when events are situated
close together in time or space.
Currently, the three mentioned types of associations are classified as simple
or mechanical.

5. The Role of Association
Since the associations reflect some significant relations between objects and
phenomena of the real world, and thus between the concepts, it is
reasonable to conclude that they play an important role in the structure of the
lexical system of the language.
This was pointed out as long ago as by N.V. Krushevskiy: "Every word is
linked to other words by ties of association by similarity; this similarity
will not be only external, i.e. sound or structural, morphological, but
also internal, semasiological. Or in other words: every word is capable,
due to a special mental law, to bring in our mind other words with which
it is similar, and is excited by these words ..."

6. Classification of Associations
Along with them, more complex semantic association is distinguished.
This is, in particular,
the association reflecting generic and cause-and-effect relationship between the objects of
the world (for example, a flower - a rose, a disease - death, and so on).
Based on the book V. V. Morkovkin «Ideographic Dictionaries» (1970)
The Role of Associations
Since the associations reflect some significant relations between objects and
phenomena of the real world, and thus between the concepts, it is
reasonable to conclude that they play an important role in the structure of the
lexical system of the language. This was pointed out as long ago as by N.V.
Krushevskiy: "Every word is linked to other words by ties of association by
similarity; this similarity will not be only external, i.e. sound or structural,
morphological, but also internal, semasiological. Or in other words: every
word is capable, due to a special mental law, to bring in our mind other words
with which it is similar, and is excited by these words ..."

7. LOVE(Dictionary Definition)
LOVE, noun. A strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work";
"children need a lot of love".
LOVE, noun. Any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love";
"he has a passion for cock fighting";.
LOVE, noun. A beloved person; used as terms of endearment.
LOVE, noun. A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them
indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love".
LOVE, noun. A score of zero in tennis or squash; "it was 40 love".
LOVE, noun. Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two
people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a
very complicated love life".
LOVE, verb. Have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her
boss and works hard for him".
LOVE, verb. Get pleasure from; "I love cooking".
LOVE, verb. Be enamored or in love with; "She loves her husband deeply".
LOVE, verb. Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her
dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?".
Wise words
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

8. LOVE
Noun
Loving Tenderness Affection Passionate Momma Devotion
Adoration Passion Silvia Shepherdess Yearning Hate
Jealousy Gentleness Saviour Longing Commandment
Fondness Sorrow Everlasting Happiness Lover Ama
Betrothed Ardour Caress Platonic Potion Sone Avowal
Constancy Blessedness Cupid Reverence Maternal
Troubadour Lust Meekness Love Courtship Faithfulness Amor
Wooing
Adjective
Begotten Unselfish Filial Undying Cherished Loving Inmost
Sweet Adorable Conjugal Unconditional Amorous Ardent
Lovable Parental Petted Fraternal Chaste Tender Honoured
Passionate Inordinate
Verb
Cherish Honour Reciprocate Adore Idolize Woo Esteem
Enamour Yearn Wed Idealize Reverence Caress Marry Dote
Chasten Sorrow Pet Revere Respect Hate Venerate Love
Requite Lavish
Adverb

9. Dream(Dictionary Definition)
DREAM, noun. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had
a dream about you last night".
DREAM, noun. Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream
that has nothing to do with reality".
DREAM, noun. A cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business".
DREAM, noun. A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe);
"I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe".
DREAM, noun. A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality;
"he went about his work as if in a dream".
DREAM, noun. Someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream".
DREAM, verb. Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy.
DREAM, verb. Experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a
strange scene".
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the
manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky

10. DREAM
Noun
Waking Dreamer Erotic Nightmare Slumber Awakening Doze
Utopia Boyhood Reality Fantasy
Vision Reverie Sleep Seer Sleeping Midsummer Musing Longing
Romantic Dream Phantasm
Nebuchadnezzar Visionary Hallucination Divination Unreality
Vividness Fulfilment Subconscious
Fancy Figment Haunting Phantom Sleeper Avarice Mirage Unquiet
Actuality Haunt Realization
Aspiration Delirium Girlhood Horatio Interpretation Opium
Presentiment Finder Portent Omen
Adjective
Dozed Wakened Dreamless Asleep Lucid Unreal Vivid Haunted
Blissful Recurrent Prophetic Fevered Cherished Fitful Wild
Insubstantial Psychical Feverish Doubting Fantastic Awake
Troubled Surreal Fantastical Illusory
Verb
Awake Vision Wake Sleep Waken Doze Awaken Fantasy Dream
Drowse Haunt Portend Plague

11. DREAM
2. Noun
Chimera Assemblage Premonition Delusion Worsted Nexus
Ecstasy Carman Vanish Illusion Beltane Raving Childhood Spectre
Vague Enchantment Soothsayer Floater Trance Wake Augury
Fairyland Homecoming Fading Imagination Diviner Bliss Imagery
Philosophy Shatter Daydream Apparition Rood Stalking Ambition
Shanghai Fairy Memory Flitting Seeker Remoteness Mystic
Horrible Displacement Coherence Sorcerer Paradise
Unconsciousness
Adjective
Impractical Voluptuous Inorganic Fleeting Evanescent Ideal Idyllic
Wakeful Intoxicating Fallacious Delirious Drowsy Disjointed Airy
Shadowy Hazy Hideous Prosaic Delectable Fairy Misty Fanciful
Boyish Enchanted Sleeping Bizarre Disturbed Unsettling
Dreamlike Infantile Pleasant Having Psychic Spectral Pictured
Fancied Realistic Timeless Illimitable
Verb
Fulfil Foretell Fade Torment Fell Image Indulge Distemper
Adverb
Peacefully Never Bad Endlessly Fantastically Dispel Slumber
Interpret Relive Lull

12. DREAM
3.Noun
Elaboration Vagary Past Pageant Daytime Night
Tangible Ideal Alp Witchery Alder Consummation
Consciousness Recollection Pharaoh Nettle Mantis
Lotus Bygone
Adjective
Horrid Deathless Incoherent Unborn Dissipated Princely
Wondrous Tantalizing Fair
Verb
Rouse Conjure Beguile Disobey Idle Lure Ecstasy Lie
Adverb
Oft Without Ever Rudely