In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives,choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Protagonist
Answer: D
It is champion.
The protagonist is the leading figure in a drama or a cause, from the Greek for first actor in the contest. The antagonist opposes him - and note that protagonist means first, not pro-anything.
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Beset
Answer: C
It is perplex.
To beset is to trouble persistently or to surround and harass - beset by doubts, beset by enemies. Perplex is the nearest of the four; deprive and deny take something away rather than press upon.
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Decant
Answer: B
It is pour off.
To decant is to pour liquid from one vessel to another, leaving the sediment behind, from the Latin canthus, the lip of a jug. Bisect and bequeath are unrelated.
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Glib
Answer: A
It is fluent.
Glib means speaking readily but without depth or sincerity. Stammering is its opposite in manner, and the criticism the word carries is that the fluency is too easy to be trusted.
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Antithesis
Answer: D
It is opposite.
Antithesis is the direct opposite of something, from the Greek for setting against. In rhetoric it is the balancing of contrary ideas in one sentence.
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Tempestuous
Answer: A
It is violent.
Tempestuous means stormy, from tempest, and is used of weather and of temper alike. Short-lived describes duration, which a tempest may or may not have.
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Frivolity
Answer: A
It is lightness.
Frivolity is lack of seriousness. Ornamentation is one form it may take in design, but the word describes a cast of mind.
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Emancipate
Answer: D
It is to set free from restraint or bondage.
To emancipate is to release from legal, social or political restriction, from the Roman act of freeing a son or slave from the father's hand. Bondage is the state it ends.
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Cede
Answer: D
It is yield.
To cede is to give up, especially territory or rights, from the Latin cedere, to go away. Keep is its opposite.
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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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