Cup is to coffee as bowl is to ______.

Concept: This analogy is built on a container-to-content relationship — the first pair links a vessel (cup) to the substance typically held inside it. To complete such analogies, identify the exact same relationship in the second pair, not a related-but-different one such as vessel-to-utensil or vessel-to-broad-category.

Application: A cup commonly holds coffee (container → content). Applying the same container-to-content relationship to a bowl, the substance a bowl typically holds is soup. So 'bowl' relates to 'soup' exactly the way 'cup' relates to 'coffee'.

• dish — a dish is another type of container/serving item, not a substance held inside a bowl, so it does not match the container-to-content pattern.

• spoon — a spoon is a utensil used to eat from a bowl, not the substance the bowl contains.

• food — food is a broad category, not the specific item matching the specificity of 'coffee' in the first pair.

Result: soup completes the analogy as the content that a bowl typically holds, mirroring cup:coffee.