Discussion
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word to fill in the blank.
Technology has made life very inert, and it is up to man now to make it more ______.
Answer: D
The antonym of inert is lively. Inert means without energy or movement, and the sentence contrasts life that technology made inert with a life that man should make more lively.
Quaint (old-fashioned and charming), uninterested (without interest) and hazardous (dangerous) are not the opposites of inert, and ‘hazardous’ does not fit the sentence's meaning.
Inert is used here of life made passive by technology, and the contrast the sentence draws is with a life that is active and full of energy. ‘Lively’ has this sense of energy, while ‘hazardous’ means dangerous and ‘quaint’ means old-fashioned in an attractive way.
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