Antonyms Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Adoration means deep love and respect, almost worship. Its opposite is opprobrium, which means harsh criticism or the disgrace that comes from shameful conduct. Approbation means approval and is close in sense to adoration, deference means respectful submission, which also points the same way, and prejudice is a preconceived opinion, which is not the opposite. The answer is Opprobrium, option (A).

Answer: C

The antonym of 'indistinct' that fills the blank is 'clear'. Indistinct means not clear to the eye or ear, and the sentence says her handwriting was so clear that every word stood out, which is the opposite of indistinct.

'Soft' and 'large' describe other qualities and would not make every word stand out in the sense given. 'Forward' is not an antonym of indistinct at all. So the third option is the answer.

Answer: C

The antonym of feeble is strong.

The sentence says Mrs. Raghava Nandan was remarkably strong and energetic, and 'strong' is the opposite of 'feeble'.

'Weird', 'dedicated' and 'fancy' are not opposites of feeble.

The blank is given with 'feeble' in brackets, and the antonym is asked. The sentence says she was 'remarkably ___ and energetic', so the word is the opposite of feeble. 'Strong' is the antonym of feeble. 'Weird' means strange, and 'fancy' means decorative.

Answer: B

The antonym of protagonist is antagonist.

A protagonist is the leading character of a story, or a leading supporter of a cause. Its opposite is the antagonist, the character or person who opposes the protagonist. The two words share the Greek root agonistes, a contestant: pro- is the first contestant and anti- the one against.

The other words only look similar. An agnostic holds that the existence of God cannot be known, an arsonist deliberately sets fire to property, and an anarchist rejects all government. None of them is the opposite of a central figure.

Answer: A

The opposite of QUIESCENT is active.

Quiescent means in a state of inactivity or rest, quiet and still for the time being: a quiescent volcano, a quiescent disease. Its exact opposite is active.

'Dormant' is a near synonym of quiescent, not an opposite, and is the usual trap. 'Weak' describes lack of strength, not inactivity, and 'unconcerned' describes indifference, a state of mind rather than activity.

Answer: C

The antonym of concealed is unveiled.

To conceal is to hide something or keep it secret. To unveil is to uncover it or make it known, the exact opposite: They unveiled the matter.

Denied is close in tone to concealing, since it means refusing to admit something, so it is not an opposite. Respected and trusted are attitudes towards a person or thing and have no connection with hiding or revealing. Other antonyms of conceal are reveal, disclose and expose.

Answer: C

The antonym of peak is Nadir.

A peak is the highest point, of a mountain or figuratively of a career or a graph. The nadir is the lowest point, as in 'the nadir of his fortunes'. In astronomy the nadir is the point directly below the observer, opposite the zenith.

Pinnacle, acme and zenith all mean the highest point, so they are synonyms of peak, not antonyms.

Answer: B

The antonym of BLATANT given in the key is Quiet.

Blatant means glaringly obvious and done openly without shame (a blatant lie), and in an older sense loud, noisy and offensive. The options are built on that second sense, so its opposite is quiet, unobtrusive and restrained.

Loud is close to a synonym of blatant in that sense, not an antonym. Decency is a noun meaning propriety, not the opposite of an adjective, and darken is a verb meaning to make dark. Neither fits as an antonym.

Answer: C

The opposite of 'veracity' is Mendacity.

Veracity means truthfulness or accuracy, from Latin verax, truthful. Mendacity means untruthfulness, the habit of lying, from Latin mendax, lying.

Truthfulness is a synonym of veracity, not an antonym. Probity and integrity mean honesty and uprightness, which are close in meaning to veracity, so they are also not opposites.

Answer: A

The antonym of 'Proclaim' is suppress.

To proclaim is to announce publicly and officially. To suppress is to keep something from being known or expressed, the opposite.

'Pretend' means to make believe, 'attend' to be present at or give attention to, and 'distend' to swell outwards; none is opposed to making something public.