48 Verbal Ability: Tactics, Review, and Practice Watch Out for Errors Caused by Eye-Catchers ‘When you look at answer choioes, do you fine thal certain ones seem to leap night off the page? These words are feye-catchers, They '00% good—bul be sure to take second look, Try these next antonym questions fo see just how an eye-catcher woiks, Fist, an easy one. REDOUBTABLE: (B) unambiguous (© unimposing (D) inescapable (B) immutsble UNDERMINE: (A) ensoare (B) overstrain (C) molly (D) terminate (B) bolster What's the opposite of uncer? Cver. What's the opposite (of undorming? No, i's not oversiain. Bo suspicious of answers thal como 190 easily. To undermine moans to weaken something or cause itte collapse by removing is underlying supports. The opposite of 10 undermine is Choice E, to boister or support. Here's a more dificut example. See # you can spot the ‘eye-catcher, Few testakers atlempling th’s question would answer it ccotectly. Why? Ones more an early answer choice nas bbaen set up tempt you. In this caso, the presence of the {amiliar word doubt in the unfamliar word redoubtable sug- ‘gests that the word redoubtable has something to do with Uncertainty. You krow that ambiguous means uncertain in meaning. Thus, Choice 8, unambiguous, is particularly opealing here. is particulary appeatig, and it's wrong. ‘Doubt in redoubtabe is usec n the sense not of uncertainty but of fear A recoubiable foe causes (ear; such a person is awosome oF Imposing, Somaone unimposing causes no ‘such fear. The correct answer Is Choice C, Practice Exercises Antonym Exercise A Direetians: in ec of the following antonym questions, 2. word printed in eapital leiters precedes five lettered words or phrases. From these five lettered words or Phrases, pick the one mest nearly oppasite in meaning Wo the capitalized word. Because some of the questions require you to distin. 4uish fine shades of meuning, be sure to consider all the choices before deciding which one is bes 1. MOURNFUL: (A) informal (B) sympathetic (C) private (D) appropriate (E> joyous 2. SCAD: (A) parsimony fC) deamth (D) restraint (B) allocation (E) provision 3. GRANDIOSE: (A) docile (C)simple and unimposing ¢E} unvommunicative (1) unlikely (© oecur 4D) Tight in weight 4, ENTRENCH: «C) extinguish fA) dety (D) squander 1B) oust (E) imercede 5. LACKLUSTER. (3) coureaus. (E} abundant (A) superficial (©) vibrant (D) complex 6. CENSURE: (C)entheall (A) augment (B) eradicate (D) commend —(E}relorm 7. TRANSIBNCE: (A) slowness (B) permanence (C) ack of caution 4D) desite for perfection (8) original nature 8. DESICCATE: (A) lengthen (8) hallow (Cyexonerste (1) saturate (E) anesthetize 9. PROTRUSION: (A) deep recess (8) strong dislike (C) erowing scarcity (Dp illusion (E) chaos 10. ENTICE: (A) repel (B) authorize (D) misplace —(E) diminish (O)baffte 11, ORTHODOXY: (A) renown (C) urconvertignality (E) remoteness, «B) trepidation (D) inquisitiveness