Question

Pick out the synonym for the word underlined.

A medicine that mitigates the complications should be prescribed by the doctor.

• A. surges
• B. alleviates
• C. inflates
• D. aggravates

Answer 1

Answer:

B. alleviates

•    guarantee – assure, pledge  
•    guile – cunning, deceit
•    gullible – credulous, unsuspicious
•    habitual – accustomed, regular 
•    handicap – disability, disadvantage 
•    harass – annoy, disturb
•    harmless – innocuous, inoffensive  
•    harsh – hard, coarse
•    hasty – abrupt, hurried
•    haughty – arrogant, pretentious 
•    humiliate – humble, shame
•    hygiene – cleanliness, sanitation
•    hypocrisy – duplicity, falseness
•    ideal – goal, perfection
•    idle – lazy, unoccupied
•    ignorant – stupid, unintelligent
•    illogical – incongruent, rambling
•    illustrious – eminent, famous