English Quiz On Synonyms and Antonyms Day 20 Bag
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Synonyms
1. remote
a. automatic
b. distant
c. savage
d. mean
b. remote means faraway, or distant
2. detest
a. argue
b. hate
c. discover
d. reveal
b. to detest means to feel intense or violent dislike, or to hate
3. gracious
a. pretty
b. clever
c. pleasant
d. present
c. gracious means to be pleasant or considerate in social
interactions
4. predict
a. foretell
b. decide
c. prevent
d. discover
a. to predict means to declare in advance or to foretell
5. kin
a. exult
b. twist
c. friend
d. relative
d. kin means people with common ancestors, or relatives
6. pensive
a. oppressed
b. caged
c. thoughtful
d. happy
c. pensive means moodily or dreamily thoughtful
7. banish
a. exile
b. hate
c. fade
d. clean
a. to banish means to drive out from home or country, or to exile
8. fraud
a. malcontent
b. argument
c. imposter
d. clown
c. a fraud is someone who is not what he or she pretends to be, or
an imposter
9. saccharine
a. leave
b. sweet
c. arid
d. quit
b. saccharine means overly sweet
10. drag
a. sleepy
b. crush
c. proud
d. pull
d. to drag is to pull, or to cause movement in a direction with
applied force
11. jovial
a. incredulous
b. merry
c. revolting
d. dizzy
b. jovial means good humored or merry
12. indifferent
a. neutral
b. unkind
c. precious
d. mean
a. to be indifferent is to be marked by impartiality or to be
neutral
13. simulate
a. excite
b. imitate
c. trick
d. apelike
b. to simulate is to assume the outward appearance of, or to
imitate
14. charisma
a. ghost
b. force
c. charm
d. courage
c. charisma is magnetic charm or appeal
15. apportion
a. divide
b. decide
c. cut
d. squabble
a. to apportion is to divide and share out
16. generic
a. general
b. cheap
c. fresh
d. elderly
a. generic means having the characteristic of a whole group,
or general
17. qualm
a. distress
b. impunity
c. persevere
d. scruple
d. a qualm is a feeling of uneasiness about a moral issue, or a
scruple
18. wary
a. calm
b. curved
c. confused
d. cautious
d. wary means to be attentive especially to danger, or to be
cautious
19. distort
a. wrong
b. evil
c. deform
d. harm
c. to distort means to twist out of a normal state, or to deform
20. sumptuous
a. delirious
b. gorgeous
c. perilous
d. luxurious
d. sumptuous means excessively costly, rich, or luxurious
21. reel
a. whirl
b. fish
c. hit
d. mistake
a. one meaning of reel is to move round and round, or to whirl
22. inscrutable
a. difficult
b. mysterious
c. inflexible
d. wary
b. inscrutable means not easily interpreted or understood, or
mysterious
23. appall
a. delirious
b. covered
c. dismay
d. confuse
c. to appall is to overcome with shock, or to dismay
24. upright
a. honorable
b. horizontal
c. humble
d. supine
a. upright can mean either honorable or vertical; horizontal and
supine are both antonyms of upright
25. reverie
a. palimpsest
b. phantom
c. daydream
d. curio
c. a reverie means the state of being lost in thought, or a
daydream
Antonyms
26. withdraw
a. reduce
b. need
c. advance
d. want
c. to withdraw means to remove or retreat; to advance is the
opposite of retreat
27. secret
a. friendly
b. covert
c. hidden
d. overt
d. secret means hidden or covert; overt means open to view
28. heartfelt
a. loving
b. insincere
c. unhealthy
d. humorous
b. heartfelt means expressing genuine feeling, or sincere, so
insincere is its opposite
29. impartial
a. hostile
b. biased
c. dislike
d. worried
b. impartial means to be without prejudice or bias, therefore
biased is the opposite
30. luminous
a. clear
b. dim
c. brittle
d. clever
b. luminous means radiating or reflecting light, or glowing; dim
means dark or dull
31. awe
a. borrow
b. shallow
c. low
d. contempt
d. awe means a sense of deep respect or veneration; contempt
means a lack of respect, or disdain
32. pit
a. group
b. peak
c. select
d. marry
b. a pit is a hole and a peak is the top of a hill or mountain
33. rotund
a. round
b. unimportant
c. thin
d. dull
c. rotund means rounded or plump, therefore thin is the opposite
34. talent
a. ungrateful
b. silent
c. show
d. inability
d. a talent is a special creative or artistic ability, therefore inability
is the opposite
35. common
a. strange
b. uneasy
c. quick
d. fast
a. common means ordinary or familiar; strange means unfamiliar
36. brazen
a. bashful
b. boisterous
c. noisy
d. heated
a. brazen means to be defiant or insolent; bashful means to be shy
or timid
37. expect
a. attend
b. regret
c. despair
d. loathe
c. to expect is to wait for or to look forward to; to despair is to
lose all hope
38. malodorous
a. acrid
b. pungent
c. fragrant
d. delicious
c. malodorous means to have a bad smell; fragrant means
smelling sweet or delicate
39. expound
a. besmirch
b. confuse
c. confine
d. condemn
b. to expound means to explain; to confuse, or confound, is the
opposite of expound
40. pique
a. value
b. gully
c. smooth
d. soothe
d. to pique means to excite or irritate; to soothe means to calm
41. abate
a. free
b. augment
c. provoke
d. wane
b. to abate means to reduce in degree or intensity; to augment
means to increase
42. dearth
a. lack
b. poverty
c. abundance
d. foreign
c. dearth means an inadequate supply or lack of something;
abundance means an ample quantity, or wealth
43. peaked
a. tired
b. arrogant
c. pointy
d. ruddy
d. to be peaked is to appear pale or wan; to be ruddy is to have a
healthy, red complexion
44. abridge
a. shorten
b. extend
c. stress
d. easy
b. to abridge means to shorten and to extend means to lengthen
45. kindle
a. smother
b. detest
c. enemy
d. discourage
a. to kindle means to start burning or ignite; to smother means to
stifle or suppress
46. meager
a. kind
b. generous
c. thoughtful
d. copious
d. meager means lacking in quality or quantity; copious means
present in large quantity, or abundant
47. philistine
a. novice
b. intellectual
c. pious
d. debutante
b. philistine is used disparagingly to describe a person guided by
material rather than intellectual values; an intellectual is a
person who engages in creative use of his or her intellect
48. zenith
a. worst
b. apex
c. nadir
d. past
a. zenith means the highest point or the apex; nadir means the
lowest point
49. germane
a. irrelevant
b. indifferent
c. impartial
d. improvident
a. germane means to be appropriate or relevant, therefore
irrelevant is the opposite
50. irascible
a. determined
b. placid
c. reasonable
d. pliant
b. irascible means easily angered; placid means calm or serene
