IIFT 2013 Question Paper

Instructions

Select a word to replace the blank spaces.

Question 74

Alleviate : Aggravate ∷ Elastic :________________

Solution

The meaning of Alleviate is Make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe and the the meaning of Aggravate is Make (a problem, injury, or offence) worse or more serious.
Thus, as we can see that the analogy here is that the words are antonyms.
Hence, the antonym of Elastic is RIgid.
Hence, option A is the correct answer.


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