In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives,choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Figment
Answer: C
It is invention.
A figment is something invented, surviving chiefly in a figment of the imagination. Its root is the Latin for shaping, the same as figure and effigy.
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Resilience
Answer: C
It is elasticity.
Resilience is the ability to spring back into shape or spirit, from the Latin for leaping back. Recovery is the result rather than the quality that makes it possible.
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Gauche
Answer: A
It is clumsy.
Gauche means awkward and lacking social grace. It is French for left, the left hand being the unhandy one - the mirror image of adroit, from a droit, to the right.
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Labour
Answer: C
It is toil.
Labour is hard work. Capacity and ability describe what one can do rather than the doing of it.
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Unconscionable
Answer: A
It is without pangs of conscience.
Unconscionable means not restrained by conscience, and so unreasonable or excessive - an unconscionable delay. Guilty is the opposite state of mind.
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Personable
Answer: C
It is attractive.
Personable means pleasant in appearance and manner. Self-centred is its opposite in temperament, and intimate describes closeness rather than charm.
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Obnoxious
Answer: C
It is offensive.
Obnoxious means extremely unpleasant, from the Latin for exposed to harm - the sense has shifted from suffering the injury to causing it.
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Acclaim
Answer: D
It is applaud.
To acclaim is to praise enthusiastically and publicly, from the Latin for shouting towards. Excel is what earns acclaim, not the acclaim itself.
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Remuneration
Answer: D
It is compensation.
Remuneration is payment for work or services, from the Latin munus, a gift. It is not remuneration's near-twin renumeration, which is not a word at all.
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Glib
Answer: A
It is fluent.
Glib means speaking easily but shallowly. Dull is its opposite in manner - the glib speaker is anything but dull to listen to, which is the trouble with him.
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