Antonyms Exercises with Answers

Answer: c) Prosaic means ordinary, whereas Rhetorical is impressive, ornate and is meant to influence. Pensive means sad and thoughtful.

Answer: (c) Levity means lack of seriousness whereas solemnity means seriousness. Frivolity is something that lack a serious intention and can be taken synonymous with levity.

Answer: (a) Obloquy is severe criticism publicly, an abuse. Slander means false charges on someone.

Answer: (b) ‘Cantankerous’ means ‘disagreeable to deal with; contentious peevish cranky.

• Irascible: easily angered; irritable; grouchy

• Co-operative: working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit
• Adamant: utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion; inflexible; uncompromising
• Captivate: to attract and hold the attention or interest of; fascinate.

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘cantankerous’ is ‘co-operative’.

Answer: (d) ‘Emblazon’ means ‘to decorate with brilliant colours to proclaim’.

• Extol: to praise highly
• Cinder: a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
• Embalm: to treat (a dead body) so as to preserve it, as with chemicals, drugs, or balsams Subtle: faint, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odour; fine or delicate in meaning or intent; difficult to perceive or understand

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to emblazon is subtle.

Answer: (c) ‘Inveigh’ means ‘to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words’.

• Harangue: a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; rant
• Celebrate: to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities
• Endorse: to approve, support, or sustain Neglect: to pay no attention or too little attention to

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘inveigh’ is ‘endorse’.

Answer: (a) ‘Leaven’ refers ‘to a substance as yeast or baking powder that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter or an element that produces an altering or transforming influence’.

• Static: showing little or no change
• Transform: to change
• Coherent: logically connected; consistent
• Diffuse: to pour out and spread, as a fluid

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to leaven is ‘static’.

Answer: (d) ‘Opprobrium’ means ‘disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy’.

• Ignominy: disgrace; dishonour
• Opportunity: a situation or condition favourable for attainment of a goal
• Obituary: a notice of the death of a person
• Honour: high public esteem; fame; glory

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘opprobrium’ is ‘honour’.

Answer: (a) Parsimonious means frugal or stingy miserly

• Extravagant: spending much more than is necessary or wise; wasteful
• Penurious: extremely stingy Partial: being a part; biased or prejudiced
• Passionate: having intense emotion or strong feeling

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘parsimonious’ is ‘extravagant’.

Answer: (b) ‘Insidious’ means ‘intended to entrap or beguile; stealthily treacherous or deceitful’.

• Deceitful: misleading
• Apparent: readily seen; obvious Insincere: not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling
• Tepid: moderately warm; characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘insidious’ is ‘apparent’.

Answer: (b) Rapacious means given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.

• Avaricious: greedy
• Satiated: satisfied, as one’s appetite or desire, to the point of boredom
• Decorated: furnished or adorned with something ornamental
• Subconscious: the part of the mind below the level of conscious perception

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘rapacious’ is ‘satiated’.

Answer: (c) ‘Soporific’ means ‘causing sleep; sleepiness; drowsiness’.

• Somnolent: tending to cause sleep Unromantic: pragmatic; matter-of-fact
• Alert: fully aware and attentive
• Slumber: to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to soporific is alert.

Answer: (b) ‘Ubiquitous’ means ‘existing or being everywhere esp at the same time; omnipresent’.

• Universal: pertaining to, or characteristic of all or the whole; applicable everywhere or in all cases; general
• Rare: coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon; exceptional
• Ensnare: to capture in, or involve as in, a snare; entrap
• Conscientious: scrupulous; upright

Therefore, the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘ubiquitous’ is ‘rare.

Answer: (c) Puissance is “having great power” while impotence means “powerless”.

Answer: (d) Recondite means ‘not understood by many people’. So, obvious is the correct antonym.

Answer: (c) Restitution is the act of giving back something that was lost or stolen to its owner. Deprivation means ‘the fact of not having something that one needs.

Answer: (c) Scad means in large numbers/amounts or in abundance. Opposite would be dearth or shortage.

Answer: (d) Limber refers to doing physical exercises in order to stretch and prepare your muscles before taking part in a sporting activity. Stiff refers to firm and difficult to bend or move.

Answer: (a) Obliquity refers to deceptiveness, opposite to straight forwardness.

Answer: (d) Spunk refers to courage or determination, while Timidity refers to not being brave.