NDA (I) 2023 General Ability Test · Question 37 of 149

Correct — C, accumulation. 'Abatement' means a reduction or lessening in amount or intensity. 'Accumulation' — a gradual gathering or build-up — moves in the opposite direction, making it the antonym.

• (a)subsidence — A sinking or settling down, i.e. a decrease — this reinforces 'abatement' rather than opposing it.
• (b)ebbing — A flowing back or gradual decline — a synonym of lessening, not its opposite.
• (d)mitigation — The act of making something less severe — very close to 'abatement', so not the antonym.

An antonym item on 'abatement' (reduction or lessening); the opposite is the word denoting an increase or build-up.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the word most opposite in meaning to 'decline'.

  • (a)fall
  • (b)growth
  • (c)decrease
  • (d)slump

  Answer(b) growth — the other three all mean a downward movement.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the word most opposite in meaning to 'depletion'.

  • (a)exhaustion
  • (b)drain
  • (c)replenishment
  • (d)reduction

  Answer(c) replenishment — refilling is the opposite of using up.