Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Forsake

Correct — A. Forsake means to give up or desert something, and typically something with a claim on you. Abandon carries that same sense.

Substitute it and the meaning holds in every frame: to forsake a friend is to abandon a friend, to forsake a habit is to abandon a habit, to forsake one's country is to abandon it.

Of the other three, two have no contact with the idea of leaving at all, and the third points the opposite way.

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  Accelerate — Accelerate means to increase speed. It has no overlap with giving something up, and nothing in forsake suggests pace, so the two words never meet.
• (c)
  Reveal — Reveal means to make known what was hidden. Forsaking is about leaving a thing behind, not about disclosing it, so the substitution changes the sentence entirely.
• (d)
  Clutch — Clutch means to grip tightly, which is the reverse motion — you clutch what you keep and forsake what you let go. It is the trap for a fast reader.

A synonym item gives you one word with no sentence around it, so the safest method is to build your own frame.

Say forsake in a phrase you trust — forsake a friend, forsake a habit — then test each option in that same phrase. Abandon fits both, and nothing else fits either.

Forsake is a little more literary and more loaded than abandon: it usually implies breaking a bond or a duty rather than simply leaving something behind. For a synonym question that extra colour does not change the answer.

Key facts

• Forsake means to abandon or desert, and it inflects forsake, forsook, forsaken.
• The adjective forsaken means deserted or abandoned, as in a forsaken village.
• Clutch as a verb means to grasp or hold something tightly.

Common traps

• Mistaking the for- of forsake for the fore- of foresee and guessing a meaning about the future.
• Choosing clutch because it feels like a strong physical verb, when it reverses the sense of the cue.

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