100 Negative Words You May Face in WAT Word Association Test

WAT is also known as the Word Association Test. WAT is conducted in SSB Interview during psychological testing. 60 words are shown on a screen one by one, each word is flashed for 15 secs and candidates are required to write their response to that word in under 15 secs. Similarly 60 words are shown on the screen.

It is a tricky exercise and it tests you by putting severe time constraints. This forces you to give the most genuine answer. It isn’t easy to mask anything in such a short duration of 15 seconds. What puts you in a total dilemma is when negative words are given to you.

100 Negative Words WAT Word Association Test

1. Anger
2. Avoid
3. Awful
4. Ashamed
5. Annoy
6. Abandon
7. Abuse
8. Afraid
9. Alone
10. Attack
11. Alcohol
12. Beg
13. Bore
14. Bad
15. Broken
16. Blame
17. Beer
18. Booze
19. Bomb
20. Cannot
21. Clumsy
22. Confuse
23. Cheat
24. Delay
25. Danger
26. Difficult
27. Dislike
28. Defeat
29. Dead
30. Damage
31. Deny
32. Depress
33. Drug
34. Dirty
35. Dishonest
36. Damage
37. Divorce
38. Disease
39. Dreadful
40. Disaster
41. Dumb
42. Evil
43. End
44. Excuse
45. Embarrass
46. Enemy
47. Fear
48. Fight
49. Furious
50. Fault
51. Fail/Failure
52. Foul
53. Fright
54. Force
55. False
56. Gossip
57. Greed
58. Guilty
59. Hate
60. Hurt
61. Hide
62. Hunger
63. Horrible
64. Harm/Harmful
65. Humiliate
66. Impossible
67. Ignore
68. Insecure
69. Ill
70. Insane
71. Inferior
72. Insult
73. Jealous
74. Kill
75. Lie
76. Lost/Loose
77. Miser
78. No/Not/Never
79. Offensive
80. Pain
81. Pessimist
82. Problem
83. Poor
84. Poison
85. Quit
86. Reject
87. Revenge
88. Rude
89. Sad
90. Sorry
91. Sorrow
92. Steal
93. Suspicious/Suspect
94. Traitor
95. Tension
96. Ugly
97. Upset
98. Un-fair,healthy,pleasant,happy,just,favourable,wanted,loved
99. War
100. Worthless/Zero

Tips for dealing with Negative word:

1. Don’t always try to write a positive thing, some things can be written in a negative way but still be good. As for Unemployment, You can write ‘It is the biggest problem of India.
2. You can change the form of the word like you can make poor as poverty so use this to your advantage.
3. Write short and snappy responses, do not write big sentences.
4. If you are not able to think of anything then simply write your reaction with the positive of that negative word.
5. It is not always necessary to write a full sentence, you can sometimes just write your reaction.
6. Do not spend much time thinking.
7. Try not to think about the previous word while moving on to the next.
8. You can write how you can remove that particular negative thing with some positive thing, like ‘Nervousness can be overcome by preparations’
9. Be very calm and positive throughout the whole procedure.
10. Think randomly of negative words and try thinking of responses as soon as possible.
11. Do not mug up sentences in advance.

It is not possible to collect all negative words here so feel free to comment any negative word in the comment box below. You can also write sample answers and negative words you have faced in your SSB.

Also Read

• Dos and Don’ts of Word Association Test
• Psychologist’s Interpretation Of Your WAT Responses