NDA (II) 2023 GAT Q45: A trip to the hills was

Q: What is the answer to NDA (II) 2023 GAT Q45?

B. Correct — B, ‘wearying’. Refreshing means restoring energy and freshness, so the opposite is whatever drains it, and to be wearying is to tire one out. The remaining options either repeat the idea of restoring energy or belong to a different axis altogether.

NDA (II) 2023 General Ability Test · Question 45 of 146

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A trip to the hills was refreshing.

(a)conniving
(b)wearying
(c)revivifying
(d)rejuvenating

Answer

Why

Correct — B, ‘wearying’. Refreshing means restoring energy and freshness, so the opposite is whatever drains it, and to be wearying is to tire one out. The remaining options either repeat the idea of restoring energy or belong to a different axis altogether.

Why the others are wrong

(a)conniving — Conniving means secretly scheming, a word about honesty rather than about energy.
(c)revivifying — To revivify is to bring back to life, a synonym of the underlined word instead of its opposite.
(d)rejuvenating — Rejuvenating means making one feel young again, which is exactly what a refreshing trip does.

Concept

Refreshing sits on a scale of energy, restoring at one end and draining at the other. Wearying, tiring, exhausting and enervating occupy the draining end.

Revivifying and rejuvenating mean nearly the same thing as each other, and a properly set item cannot have two correct answers, so that pair can be struck out together. Only conniving and wearying survive, and just one of them touches energy at all.

Key facts

Revivify and rejuvenate both mean to restore vigour, one built on the Latin for life and the other on the Latin for young.
Enervating is a further opposite of refreshing and is frequently misused as though it meant energising.

Study next

Antonyms along the scale of energyRefreshing, rejuvenating and revivifyingEnervating and its common misuseStriking out two options that mean the same thing

Common traps

Choosing conniving because it is the unfamiliar word.
Missing that two options are mutual synonyms and so neither can be right.

Asked as an antonym item — pick the word opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word. The long march was exhausting.
- (a)invigorating
- (b)lengthy
- (c)difficult
- (d)dusty
Answer(a) invigorating — exhausting drains energy, invigorating restores it.
practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word. The medicine had a soothing effect.
- (a)calming
- (b)irritating
- (c)mild
- (d)bitter
Answer(b) irritating — soothing eases, irritating inflames.