Antonym of DENY — Synonyms & Antonyms Aptitude Question
Antonym of DENY: Choose the word most opposite in meaning to DENY: Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Synonyms & Antonyms
- Section: Verbal Ability
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time target: 35 seconds
Question
Choose the word most opposite in meaning to DENY:
Options
- Refuse
- Admit
- Ignore
- Question
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: B. Admit
Worked solution
- Deny means to state that something is untrue.
- Admit means to acknowledge it — the opposite.
- Refuse is close to deny in another sense.
Answer: Admit.
The idea
Where a word has two senses, choose the one the options are testing. Here the sense is 'declare untrue', not 'withhold'.
Shortcut. Put it in a courtroom: 'he denied the theft' reverses to 'he admitted the theft' — admit.
Common trap. "Refuse" — deny can mean refuse ('deny entry'), so it is a synonym in that sense, never an opposite.