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Answer: Choice (A) is correct.

When considering the first part of the analogy, think about how these words are related. If someone’s appetite is voracious, it is enormous and ravenous. So, choose the answer pair that has words related to the same degree. In choice (B), indecision may cause someone to vacillate, or waver, but these words are not related in the same way that appetite and voracious are. In choice (C), laugh and snicker are similar, but a snicker is a small, mocking laugh, so eliminate choice (C). In choice (D), a protégé is talented, but that pair of words is not related to the same degree that appetite and voracious are. In choice (A), someone’s action can be unconscionable, which means excessively or extremely unscrupulous. This pair has the same relationship as the initial pair in the analogy.