Question

Choose the word opposite in meaning to the italicized word:
I worship him as my ideal.

• A. deify
• B. despise
• C. abuse
• D. neglect

Answer 1

The correct option is B despise

Option B: 'Worship' means 'show adoration (for a deity)'.

'Despise' means 'feel contempt or intense disgust for'.

As you can see, this word 'despise' means the opposite of the given word 'worship'. Hence option B is correct.

Option A: 'Deify' means 'worship or regard as a god'.

Option C: 'Abuse' means 'treat with cruelty or violence'.

Option D: 'Neglect' means 'fail to do something'.

These words do not mean the opposite of the italicized word 'worship'.

Hence options A, C and D are wrong.