In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives,choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
See
Answer: B
It is observe.
To see is to perceive with the eyes, and observe is the nearest of the four. Look is directing the eyes, which one may do without seeing anything.
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Stumbling block
Answer: D
It is hurdle.
A stumbling block is an obstacle to progress. Advantage is its opposite, and frustration is what the obstacle causes rather than the obstacle itself.
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Abstruse
Answer: B
It is profound.
Abstruse means hard to understand, from the Latin for concealed. Shallow is its opposite; profound is the nearest of the four, both describing depth that the ordinary reader cannot easily reach.
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Showy
Answer: D
It is gaudy.
Showy means attracting attention by being bright or ostentatious, and gaudy says the same with the criticism made plain. Rowdy describes noise, not appearance.
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Cancel
Answer: A
It is abolish.
To cancel is to declare something no longer valid. Approve and allow are its opposites, and to break is to damage rather than to annul.
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Augury
Answer: D
It is prophecy.
An augury is an omen or a foretelling, from the Roman augur who read the future in the flight of birds. Future is the thing foretold, not the foretelling.
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Redressed
Answer: C
It is restored.
Redressed means set right again - a grievance redressed. Addressed and redone merely resemble it; rearranged changes the order without repairing anything.
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Annihilate
Answer: A
It is destroy.
To annihilate is to destroy utterly, from the Latin ad nihil, to nothing. The other three are unrelated verbs.
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Dialectic
Answer: A
It is argumentative.
Dialectic is reasoning by the exchange of argument, from the Greek for discourse - the method of Socrates, and later of Hegel and Marx.
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Predominant
Answer: B
It is important.
Predominant means having the greatest influence or being most noticeable, from the Latin for ruling over. Vague is its opposite in prominence.
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