Synonyms and Antonyms (cxc bases)
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- Q1
Instructions: choose the word or phrase that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the capatilized word or phrase.
The manager decided to inform the staff about all COMPLAINTS received from customers.
Demands
Requests
Suggestions
Compliments
30s - Q2
Instructions: choose the word or phrase that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the capatilized word or phrase.
There was a DECLINE in airplane travel after September 11th, 2001.
Rise
Decease
Upheaval
Fluctuation
30s - Q3
Instructions: choose the word or phrase that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the capatilized word or phrase.
The COMPASSIONATE man was known by many in the crowd.
Dissatisfied
Indifferent
Fussy
Cruel
30s - Q4
Instructions: choose the word or phrase that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the capatilized word or phrase.
In these difficult Economic Times, many organizations RETRENCH workers only when absolutely necessary.
Employ
Demote
Dismiss
Promote
30s - Q5
Instructions: choose the word or phrase that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the capatilized word or phrase.
5. Wilder employers approved of his work habits, they objected to his RADICAL views.
Fashionable
Conventional
Capitalist
Informed
30s - Q6
Instructions: each of the sentences in this section has one CAPITALIZED word. Choose from the four options the word which is NEAREST IN MEANING to the underlined word.
The flowers grow PROFUSELY in the garden.
Healthily
Wildly
Colorfully
Plentifully
30s - Q7
Instructions: each of the sentences in this section has one CAPITALIZED word. Choose from the four options the word which is NEAREST IN MEANING to the underlined word.
The new story revealed the SQUALOR of the old prison cells.
Security
Filthiness
Ambience
Strength
30s - Q8
Instructions: each of the sentences in this section has one CAPITALIZED word. Choose from the four options the word which is NEAREST IN MEANING to the underlined word.
Although she had visited the site on many occasions, nothing had prepared her for the GRANDEUR of the sunset on that day.
Splendour
colorfulness
gaudiness
Harmony
30s - Q9
Instructions: each of the sentences in this section has one CAPITALIZED word. Choose from the four options the word which is NEAREST IN MEANING to the underlined word.
For the first time in a decade the company disclosed a DEFICIT in its accounts.
Defect
Shortfall
Error
Balance
30s - Q10
Instructions: each of the sentences in this section has one CAPITALIZED word. Choose from the four options the word which is NEAREST IN MEANING to the underlined word.
It was impossible to RECTIFY the ever made by the computer since inaccurate information had been fed into it.
Correct
Erase
Altar
Determine
30s