Identify the most appropriate antonym of the given word. Timid

Correct — B. Timid means lacking courage — easily frightened, shrinking from risk.

Its opposite is the word for the person who takes the risk anyway, and that is daring: willing to do bold things, unafraid of danger.

Meek and anxious sit on timid's own side of the scale rather than against it. Spooky changes role altogether: it describes something that causes fear, not a person who feels it.

Option (b) is the entry that reverses the quality the word names.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Meek — Meek means quiet, gentle and submissive. It stands beside timid rather than against it, so it is a synonym offered in a question that asks for an antonym.
• (c)
  Spooky — Spooky means frightening or eerie. It belongs to the thing that scares, not to the person who is scared, so it is not on the same scale as timid at all.
• (d)
  Anxious — Anxious means worried or uneasy about what may happen. Anxiety overlaps with timidity rather than opposing it, and the word says nothing about boldness.

An antonym question is answered by naming the scale the word sits on and then reaching for its far end.

Timid sits on a scale of courage: timid, cautious, confident, bold, daring. Meek sits at timid's own end of that scale; daring sits at the far end.

Two wrong-answer shapes recur. The first is a near-synonym put where the opposite belongs, which is meek here. The second is a word from an adjacent scale that merely shares the subject — spooky measures how frightening a thing is, which is a different quality of a different noun.

Key facts

• Timid — showing a lack of courage or confidence, easily frightened.
• Daring — bold, willing to take risks.
• Meek — quiet, gentle and submissive, which places it near timid rather than opposite it.
• Spooky describes something that causes fear, so it cannot be the opposite of a word describing someone who feels it.

Common traps

• Choosing meek, a synonym sitting in an antonym question.
• Choosing spooky because it is another fear word, when it names what causes fear rather than who feels it.

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