In the following questions, three words are highlighted in a sentence

Direction: In the following questions, three words are highlighted in a sentence.

Choose the most appropriate pair of SYNONYMS/ANTONYMS of the highlighted words. If none of the alternatives is correct, choose option E as your answer.

1. A New York judge has upheld an order preventing The New York Times from publishing documents between conservative group Project Veritas and its lawyer and ruled that the newspaper must immediately relinquish confidential legal memos it obtained.

A.            praise: justify

B.            supported: abdicate

C.            advocate: represent

D.            promote: foster

E.            None of these

Upheld: confirm or support (something  which has been questioned)

relinquish: voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up.

Abdicate: (of a monarch) renounce one’s throne.

Thus, option B indicates the synonyms of the highlighted words

2. U. S. President Joe Biden on December 23 signed into law legislation that bans imports from

China’s Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, the White House said, provoking an angry Chinese condemnation.

A.            baffle: uncertain

B.            abandon: divulge

C.            celebrate: discriminate

D.            appease: acclaim

E.            None of these

Provoke: stimulate or incite (someone) to do or feel something, especially by arousing anger in them.

Condemn: express complete disapproval of; censure.

Appease: assuage or satisfy (a demand or a feeling).

Acclaim: praise enthusiastically and publicly.

Thus, option D indicates the antonyms of the highlighted words.

3. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government on Friday approved record defence spending, with a 10th straight annual increase in 2022, against a backdrop of

China’s rapid military expansion and North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.

A.            widespread: available

B.            ameliorate: effective

C.            unhurried: reduction

D.            distinct: increase

E.            None of these

Sol:

Rapid: happening in a short time or at a great rate.

Expansion: the action of becoming larger or more extensive.

Thus, option C indicates the antonyms of the highlighted words.

4. U. S. Navy patrol ships transferred the confiscated weapons to the guided-missile destroyer USS O’Kane before sinking the fishing vessel because of the hazard it posed to commercial shipping.

A.            seized: imperil

B.            controlled: danger

C.            confirmed: accident

D.            sustained: liability

E.            None of these

Confiscated: take or seize (someone’s property) with authority.

Hazard: a danger or risk.

Imperil: put at risk of being harmed, injured, or destroyed.

Thus, option A indicates the synonyms of the highlighted words.