Question

Choose the word/group of words which is most opposite in meaning to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage:

RESIST

• A. give in
• B. struggle
• C. try out
• D. defy

Answer 1

The correct option is A

give in

The verb ‘resist’, as used in the passage, means ‘to refuse to accept something and try to stop it from happening, oppose, to use force to stop something from happening’.
Likewise, the idiom ‘give in’ means ‘to admit that you have been defeated by somebody/something’.

Thus, ‘resist’ and ‘give in’ are antonymous.