Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Dodge

Correct — C. Dodge means to move aside quickly to escape something, and by extension to evade a question, a duty or a tax.

That is what avoid names: getting out of the way of something rather than meeting it.

Use the substitution test. "He dodged the question" and "He avoided the question" say the same thing, so option (c) is the synonym.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Force — Force means to compel someone to act. Dodging is escaping an action, not compelling one, so the two words point in opposite directions.
• (b)
  Boarding — Boarding is getting onto a vehicle, or living somewhere that supplies meals. Neither sense touches escaping or evading anything.
• (d)
  Amount — Amount is a quantity — how much of something there is. Dodge is a movement or an evasion, so the two words never overlap.

A bare-word synonym item gives you no sentence, so you supply one yourself. Say the word in a sentence you trust, then drop each option into that same sentence.

Dodge runs in two directions: the physical one (dodge a ball, dodge a car) and the figurative one (dodge a question, dodge tax). Both reduce to avoiding something, which is why a single option can cover the whole word.

When one option survives substitution and the rest change the meaning, you are done — you do not have to rank the losers.

Key facts

• Dodge carries both a physical sense (dodge a ball) and a figurative one (dodge a question, dodge tax).
• Avoid is its plain synonym, and evade, elude and sidestep are the same idea in a more formal register.
• Boarding belongs to travel and lodging, not to evasion.

Common traps

• Reading Dodge only as the physical movement and rejecting avoid as too abstract
• Choosing an option because it sounds like the question word rather than because it means the same

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