Question 80
In each group, identify two English words nearest in meaning. Explain your choices.
a. accumulation, reservoir, river, tryst, quarry
b. deceit, confusion, artifice, truth, illusion
c. astonish, delight, frighten, daze, amaze
d. guzzle, nuzzle, abstain, retreat, fast
e. hate, goodbye, valediction, welcome, conclusion
f. idol, fan, effigy, appearance, face
g. attitude, calmness, equanimity, agitation, uncertainty
h. excel, surplus, achieve, quantity, surpass
i. repugnant, delightful, loathsome, nice, evil
j. resent, accept, begrudge, fear, want
k. co-ordinated, arranged, synchronised, co-operated, convinced
l. erotic, esoteric, abstruse, psychic, ionic
m. dilettante, enlarge, dilate, shrink, partner
n. automatic, independence, ideal, autonomy, alone
o. pace, celebrity, package, celerity, clarity
p. permeate, intrude, pervade, persuade, mask
q. unique, sectarian, parochial, cosmopolitan, new
r. choice, conclusion, conjecture, diagnosis, hypothesis
s. protagonist, protractor, enemy, antagonist, enema
a. accumulation, reservoir, river, tryst, quarry
b. deceit, confusion, artifice, truth, illusion
c. astonish, delight, frighten, daze, amaze
d. guzzle, nuzzle, abstain, retreat, fast
e. hate, goodbye, valediction, welcome, conclusion
f. idol, fan, effigy, appearance, face
g. attitude, calmness, equanimity, agitation, uncertainty
h. excel, surplus, achieve, quantity, surpass
i. repugnant, delightful, loathsome, nice, evil
j. resent, accept, begrudge, fear, want
k. co-ordinated, arranged, synchronised, co-operated, convinced
l. erotic, esoteric, abstruse, psychic, ionic
m. dilettante, enlarge, dilate, shrink, partner
n. automatic, independence, ideal, autonomy, alone
o. pace, celebrity, package, celerity, clarity
p. permeate, intrude, pervade, persuade, mask
q. unique, sectarian, parochial, cosmopolitan, new
r. choice, conclusion, conjecture, diagnosis, hypothesis
s. protagonist, protractor, enemy, antagonist, enema