ENGLISH VOCABULARY - FIVE WORDS A DAY MCQ TEST - 001

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SYNONYM

The correct answer is (C) - exist.

1. Survive:

[verb]

Meaning:

# continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship.

# continue to live or exist in spite of (an accident or ordeal).

# manage to keep going in difficult circumstances.

Example: Against all odds the child survived.

Synonym: remain alive, live, sustain oneself, cling to life, pull through, get through, hold on, hold out, make it, keep body and soul together

Antonym: depart, die, discontinue, neglect, refuse, reject, give up, leave, quit, stop, cease

2. Prosper:

[verb]

Meaning:

# succeed in material terms; be financially successful.

# flourish physically; grow strong and healthy.

Example: areas where grey squirrels cannot prosper

Synonym: do well, get on well, go well, farewell; thrive, flourish, flower, bloom, blossom, burgeon, grow vigorously, shoot up; boom, expand, spread, pick up, improve, come on; succeed, be successful, make it, do all right for oneself, get ahead, progress, make progress;

Antonym: fail, collapse, crash;

3. Reproduce:

[verb]

Meaning:

# produce a copy of.

# (of an organism) produce offspring by a sexual or asexual process.

Example: bacteria normally divide and reproduce themselves every twenty minutes.

Synonym: copy, produce a copy of, make a facsimile of, duplicate, replicate; photocopy, Xerox, photostat;

Antonym: be original, abort, destroy, kill, stop;

4. Exist:

[verb]

Meaning:

# have objective reality or being.

# live, especially under adverse conditions.

Example: a minority of people exist on unemployment benefit alone.

Synonym: live, be alive, be living, have life, breathe, draw breath;

Antonym: depart, die, expire, pass away, perish, succumb;

5. Transcend:

[verb]

Meaning:

# be or go beyond the range or limits of (a field of activity or conceptual sphere).

# surpass (a person or achievement).

Example: She was able to transcend her own suffering and help others.

Synonym: go beyond, rise above, cut across, surpass, excel, exceed, beat, trump, top, cap, outdo, outstrip, leave behind, outrival, outvie, outrank, outshine, eclipse, overstep, overshadow, throw into the shade, upstage;

Antonym: equal, lose (to), similar;

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