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Tackle Antonym Questions - GRE Verbal

GRE Antonyms measure your:
  • vocabulary
  • ability to reason from a given concept to its opposite

You are presented with a single word followed by five answer choices containing words or short phrases. You have to select an answer choice that's most nearly opposite in meaning to the original word. Since the questions often require you to distinguish finer shades of meaning, go through all the possible answer choices before making your selection.

Antonyms Strategies :
  • Try to define the word precisely
  • Look for shades of meaning of the given word
  • Make a sentence with it
  • Analyse the prefix or suffix to help establish a word's meaning
  • Eliminate irrelevant answer choices
Antonyms Sample question :

PERSEVERE

1. Take Away
2. Put into
3. Send out
4. Give up
5. Bring forward

Answer: D