English Questions: Synonyms Set- 38

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1. Repentant
   1) give-up
   2) apologetic
   3) impenitent
   4) unrepentant
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : apologetic
   
   
2. Contend
   1) forsake
   2) contest
   3) desert
   4) abandon
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : contest
   
   
3. Convention
   1) intrinsic
   2) assembly
   3) strangeness
   4) division
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : assembly
   
   
4. Ornate
   1) cinch
   2) effortless
   3) simple
   4) adorned
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : adorned
   
   
5. Mystify
   1) demystify
   2) confound
   3) explicable
   4) demystify
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : confound
   
   
6. Preponderance 
   1) Prominence
   2) Dominance
   3) Domineering
   4) Preoccupation
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : Dominance
   
   
7. Adjuvant
   1) Auxiliary
   2) needed
   3) Warranty
   4) necessary
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation : Auxiliary
   
   
8. Kin
   1) exult
   2) twist
   3) friend
   4) relative
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : relative
   
   
9. Temerity
   1) audacity
   2) fearfulness
   3) shyness
   4) stupidity
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation : audacity
   
   
10. Brutish
    1) nice
    2) refined
    3) coarse
    4) polite
    
    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : coarse