English Questions – Antonyms 38

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1. CURSORY
   1) haphazard
   2) uptight
   3) meticulous
   4) dummied up
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation: meticulous
   cursory – hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed.
   meticulous – showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.
   
   
2. RETICENT
   1) dazzling
   2) painstaking
   3) unhurried
   4) communicative
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: communicative
   Reticent – not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily.
   communicative – willing, eager, or able to talk or impart information.
   
   
3. DESPISE
   1) admire
   2) sketchy
   3) perfunctory
   4) slapdash
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: admire
   despise – feel contempt or a deep repugnance for.
   admire – regard with respect or warm approval.
   
   
4. CALLOUS
   1) cherish
   2) sympathetic
   3) eschew
   4) execrate
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation: sympathetic
   callous – showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others.
   sympathetic – feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy.
   
   
5. LATENT
   1) contemn
   2) deride
   3) tender
   4) apparent
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: apparent
   latent – (of a quality or state) existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden or concealed.
   apparent – clearly visible or understood; obvious.
   
   
6. SOBRIETY
   1) drunkenness
   2) spurn
   3) abominate
   4) spurn
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: drunkenness
   sobriety – the state of being sober.
   drunkenness – the state of being drunk; intoxication.
   
   
7. DEMENTED
   1) contemn
   2) disdain
   3) apoptotic
   4) sane
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: sane
   demented – suffering from dementia.
   sane – (of a person) of sound mind; not mad or mentally ill.
   
   
8. PALLING
   1) detest
   2) apolitical
   3) indigent
   4) comforting,
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: reassuring
   palling – form a friendship.
   comforting – serving to alleviate a person’s feelings of grief or distress.
   
   
9. RUEFULLY
   1) defiant
   2) apologetic
   3) ashamed
   4) fragile
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: defiant
   ruefully – in a way that expresses sorrow or regret, especially in a wry or humorous manner.
   defiant – showing defiance.
   
   
10. DEVIATED
    1) lamentable
    2) conform
    3) mournful
    4) repentant
    

    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: conform
    deviated – depart from an established course.
    conform – comply with rules, standards, or laws