Word: antonym
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...reading comprehension passages and breezes through it, or the one who has looked up all the analogy words he didn't recognize during his first test. Granted, as far as test-takers go, I'm on the obsessive side, but after my first SAT experience, suddenly 'convalescence' (antonym: attrition) was popping up all over the place. I sure as hell wasn't going to get that word wrong again...
...people are much less likely to know what is good for others. What has Altman so mixed up is that we are taking charge of our lives without seeking to be in charge of other people's lives. To a centralist who does not realize that compulsion is the antonym of freedom, this is baffling...
...ever wonder if an opposite to 'misogyny' existed? Look in your dictionary under misogyny for an antonym. Chances are, you won't find...
Review instructors warn that every SAT contains an unscored section of experimental, often difficult candidate questions for future tests. One such question asked for the antonym of the word imbibe, whose common definitions are to drink and to receive into the mind. The answer choices were (A) dissuade, (B) reward, (C) exude, (D) loosen bonds, (E) refuse help. According to Owen, only 13% of students taking the test marked E.T.S.'s answer, exude, which is the opposite of soak, an archaic definition of imbibe. Review students are taught to spot the experimental section by its heavy cargo of muddy puzzlers...
...revised sections of the test include a mathematical section stressing the ability to work with numbers rather than knowledge of complicated formulae, and a verbal section posing clinical type situations rather than word analogies and synonym-antonym problems, according to Erdmann...