In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives,choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
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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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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