Select the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word. Many people love to visit enchanting hills.

Correct — B. The underlined word is enchanting, which means charming enough to hold you — delightful, captivating.

Alluring carries that same sense of attractiveness that draws a person in. Substitute it back and the sentence still says what it said: many people love to visit alluring hills → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  risky — Risky means dangerous. Hills can be risky, but that is a fact about hills, not a meaning of enchanting.
• (c)
  echoing — Echoing answers the sound of the word, the chant sitting inside enchanting, rather than its sense, which is about charm and not about noise.
• (d)
  cool — Cool describes temperature, or informal approval. A hill can be cool without being charming, so it does not replace enchanting.

Synonym items are settled by substitution: put the option back into the sentence and ask whether the sentence still means what it meant.

Enchanting means delightfully charming, from enchant, to put under a spell. Alluring means attractive in a tempting way. Both describe a pull the thing exerts on the person looking at it, which is why the swap holds.

The wrong options work by association instead. Risky and cool are things a hill can be, and echoing plays on the letters of the word.

Key facts

• Enchanting means charming or delightful, from enchant, to put under a spell.
• Alluring means attractive in a way that tempts or draws one in.
• Substituting the option back into the sentence exposes choices that are true of the noun but not synonyms of the adjective.

Common traps

• Choosing an option because it is plausibly true of hills rather than close in meaning to enchanting.
• Being pulled towards echoing by the sound of the word.

No directly related past PYQ was found.