Antonym
Answers & Explanations
1. D
One who is abstemious abstains from certain pleasures. The
correct answer choice will be a synonym for indulgent.
Festive means "celebratory" or "joyful." Eliminate.
Boisterous is rowdy, unrestrained — eliminate.
Frigid is very cold — eliminate. Hedonistic means
"indulgent in pleasure and enjoyment." Keep this. Pure
doesn't fit here. Eliminate.
2. B
Truncate means "to shorten," usually by cutting something
off. The correct answer choice will be a synonym for "add more to
something." Wrap around has nothing to do with adding on.
Eliminate. Add on matches our prephrase perfectly. Keep
it. Darken has nothing to do with adding or shortening
something. Eliminate. Handle carelessly doesn't work with
our prephrase. Eliminate. Retain doesn't work either, as
its oppostie would mean "give away," not "shorten."
Eliminate.
3. A
Mawkish means sickeningly sentimental.
Unsentimental, A, is the answer here. The opposite of B,
sophisticated, is naive or simple. The
opposite of graceful, C, is clumsy. The opposite of
tense, D, is relaxed. There are various antonyms to
descriptive, E, but mawkish isn't one.
4. C
Vituperative means verbally abusive. The opposite of
defaming someone with vituperative remarks would be praising them
— C's laudatory means expressing praise. As for the other
choices, lethal means deadly and incapacitated
means incapable or unfit. In D, insulated means protected,
as in insulation, and prominent, E, means
famous.
5. A
Bawdy means racy or lewd. A good oppostie would be
straitlaced or proper. A, prudish, fits
perfectly. Of the other wrong answers, superfluous means
unnecessary, gaunt means thin, ethereal means
heavenly or immaterial, and legitimate means legal or
authentic. None of them fits in here.
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