Detest is most similar to hate, as in "Although I like most meats, I detest veal."

"Eccentric" most nearly means peculiar or odd, as in "The lady who owned ten cats was eccentric in her ways."

The word most similar to "sanctity" is holiness, as in "The site of the grave was a place of sanctity for the soldier's family."

The word most similar to "tenet" is doctrine, as in "The tenets of Catholicism assert that the Pope is leader of the Catholic church."

"Misgiving" most nearly means doubt, as in a feeling of doubt or apprehension about the result of something. A student who did not do well on an exam may have some misgivings about his or her final grade.

"Aplomb" most nearly means composure as in self-confidence or assurance, especially during a stressful situation. For example, you might say that "the hostages showed great aplomb while trapped in the bank."

"Egregious" most nearly means flagrant, as in something that is very bad and obvious. You might say that "the egregious typos in the story made the plot hard to follow."

"Recluse" most nearly means hermit. A recluse is someone who likes to be alone and leads a solitary life.

A sweater is typically made of yarn, so we need to pick out an answer choice in which the first word is an object and the second word a material one would expect to make up that object. While “snowball is to snow” and “sugar is to candy” might each look like a potentially correct answer, “sugar is to candy” cannot be the correct answer because sugar is not made up of candy—the answer choice’s words are in the incorrect order relative to the example, so it cannot be the correct answer. One might correctly expect a snowball to be made of snow, though, just as one might expect a sweater to be made of yarn, so “snowball is to snow” is the correct answer.

“Droplet” is a noun defined as “a very small drop of a liquid,” so water might be measured in droplets as its smallest unit visible to the naked eye. So, we need to pick out a noun that conveys the smallest unit of snow that one might observe with the naked eye. While “flake” and “drift” might each look like a potentially correct answer, “drift” refers to “a large mass of snow, or leaves piled up or carried along by the wind,” not a single small unit of snow, so it cannot be the correct answer. “Flake,” however, when used as a noun, can mean “a snowflake,” which is “a flake of snow, especially a feathery ice crystal, typically displaying delicate sixfold symmetry.” So, because a flake is the smallest unit of snow visible to the naked eye, just as a droplet is the smallest unit of water visible to the naked eye, “flake” is the correct answer.