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Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

FROWARD

  1. sentient

  2. obdurate

  3. avid

  4. arbitrary

  5. accordant


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Froward means not easily controlled; stubbornly willful; contrary. Its opposite is accordant, meaning           in agreement or harmony. Hence, (E) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

AUDACIOUS

  1. reticent

  2. impudent

  3. tremulous

  4. jocose

  5. staid


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Audacious means bold or daring; fearless. Tremulous means fearful; timid; timorous. Hence, (C) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

GARGANTUAN

  1. bantam

  2. colossal

  3. extravagant

  4. aastronomical

  5. Magnanimous


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Gargantuan means enormous, huge, immense. Its opposite is unjust punishment. Bantam means small, diminutive, tiny. Hence, (A) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

COGNOSCENTE

  1. gourmand

  2. connoisseur

  3. abecedarian

  4. maven


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Cognoscente” is a person with special knowledge in some field, esp. in fine arts; expert; connoisseur. Its antonyms is “abecedarian”, who is a person learning the alphabet; i.e. any beginner or novice. Hence, (C) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

SYCOPHANT

  1. cringer

  2. sniveler

  3. trimmer

  4. potentate

  5. vacillator


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Sycophant a person who seeks favor by flattering people of wealth or influence; parasite; toady. Potentate is a person having great power; ruler; monarch. Hence, (D) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

ABJURE

  1. raze

  2. arrogate

  3. ply

  4. recant

  5. verve


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Abjure means to give up (rights, allegiance, etc.) on oath; renounce. Its opposite is to arrogate, meaning to claim or seize without right; appropriate (to oneself) arrogantly. Hence, (B) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

DENTATE

  1. edentate

  2. suant

  3. fortuitous

  4. fragile

  5. tarnished


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Dentate means having teeth or toothlike projections; toothed or notched; characterized by roughness.       Suant means Spread equally over the surface; uniform; even; characterized by smoothness; hence the antonym of dentate. Hence, (B) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

BROMIDIC

  1. neologism

  2. cliché

  3. prosaic

  4. trite


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Bromidic refers to A commonplace remark or notion; a platitude; cliché. Neologism means a new word or a new meaning for an established word; coinage; hence the antonym of bromidic. Hence, (A) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

AUDACITY

  1. skepticism

  2. serenity

  3. recreant

  4. conformism

  5. parity


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Audacity refers to bold courage; daring; impudence; presumption recreant is a A coward; A faithless or disloyal person. Hence, (C) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

OBJURGATE

  1. tantalize

  2. flout

  3. meddle

  4. abet

  5. impugn


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Objurgate means to chide vehemently; upbraid sharply; rebuke; berate whereas abet is to incite, sanction, or help, esp. in wrongdoing. Hence, (D) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

BANAUSIC

  1. anomalous

  2. mitigate

  3. forfeit

  4. extinguish

  5. occlude


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Banausic means Merely mechanical; routine; ordinary and not refined. Anomalous means deviating           from the regular arrangement, general rule, or usual method; abnormal; i.e. exceptional . Hence, (A) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

DEBILITATE

  1. consent

  2. abate

  3. restitute

  4. peeve

  5. fortify


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Debilitate means to make weak or feeble; enervate. Fortify means to make strong or stronger; strengthen physically, emotionally, etc. Hence, (E) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

RESPLENDENT

  1. competent

  2. unbigoted

  3. supine

  4. leaden

  5. unafraid


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Resplendent means shining brightly; full of splendor; dazzling; splendid leaden means depressed, dispirited, gloomy; of a dull gray; fits our prediction for resplendent as it highlights both the meanings; of life as well as colour. Hence, (D) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

METEMPIRICS

  1. perpetual

  2. protracted

  3. conscientious

  4. subdued

  5. natural


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Metempirics are the concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience i.e. supernatural.  Hence, (E) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

SPURIOUS
  1. counterfeit

  2. preposterous

  3. implausible

  4. sterling


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

“Spurious” means not proceeding from the true or claimed source; not genuine; false. “Sterling” is English money having the fineness of quality of the standard silver penny; and as an adjective means of genuinely high quality; excellent. Hence, (D) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

OSTENSIBLE

  1. implausible

  2. digressing

  3. monotonous

  4. prodigious

  5. lone


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ostensible means apparent; seeming; professed; manifest, demonstrative i.e. conceivable. Implausible means inconceivable. Hence, (A) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

IMPORTUNITY

  1. belie

  2. canon

  3. evade

  4. vacillate

  5. retraction


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Importunity means persistence in requesting or demanding; petition or appeal, whereas retraction means withdrawal, as of a statement, promise, charge, i.e. denial. Hence, (5) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

FUSILLADE

  1. barrage

  2. volley

  3. holocaust

  4. incursion

  5. armistice


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Fusillade means a simultaneous or rapid and continuous discharge of many firearms. Its antonym is armistice, that means a temporary stopping of warfare by mutual agreement, as a truce preliminary to the signing of a peace treaty; cease-fire. Hence, (E) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

COMPENDIOUS

  1. outr�

  2. stereotype

  3. unctuous

  4. reiterative

  5. boisterous


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Compendious means containing all the essentials in a brief form; concise but comprehensive. It's opposite is Reiterative means To say or do again or repeatedly. Hence, (D) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

INVIGORATE

  1. buttress

  2. animate

  3. etherize

  4. inspissate

  5. exhilarate


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Invigorate means to give vigor to; fill with energy; enliven. Etherize is to anesthetize (a patient) with ether fumes i.e. to give a stop to all the activities; therefore fits our prediction for invigorate. Hence, (C) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

RECONNOITER

  1. ransack

  2. accessible

  3. conspicuous

  4. ferret out

  5. glimpse


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Reconnoiter means to make a reconnaissance (observation, survey, surveillance). Its opposite is glimpse, meaning to catch a brief, quick view of, as in passing; perceive momentarily and incompletely. Hence, (E) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

GASCONADE

  1. paranoia

  2. pretension

  3. demureness

  4. rant

  5. bravura


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Gasconade is boastful or blustering talk. Its opposite, among the choices is demureness, meaning the       trait of behaving with reserve and decorum; decorous; modest; reserved. Hence, (C) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

ABSOLVE

  1. remit

  2. extenuate

  3. arraign

  4. reprieve

  5. condone


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

To absolve means to pronounce free from guilt or blame; acquit. Its opposite, among the choices, is to arraign, meaning to call to account; accuse; charge; indict. Hence, (C) is the answer.

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

CAVEAT

  1. infringement

  2. indolence

  3. execution

  4. languor

  5. apathy


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Caveat means A warning or caution. Infringement means            breach, infraction, invasion, transgression i.e. to break a law or agreement; violation inspite of caurion or warning; hence the antonym of caveat.       Hence, (A) is the answer.

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