SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 25 September 2024, Shift 1 · English Comprehension · Question 4 of 100

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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word. Dissolve

(a)Appear
(b)Fade
(c)Solve
(d)Vanish

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Dissolve is used here in its sense of going out of existence — an image dissolves, a crowd dissolves, a shape dissolves into the mist.

The reverse of ceasing to be visible is coming into view, and that is appear.

Fade and vanish move in the same direction as dissolve rather than against it, so neither can be its antonym, and solve is a spelling near-miss rather than a meaning.

The word that reverses dissolve is option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Fade — Fade means to lose colour, strength or visibility by degrees, which is what dissolve does in this sense. It is a near-synonym, not a reverse.
(c)
Solve — Solve sits inside dissolve as a string of letters but means to find the answer to a problem. It reverses nothing in the given word.
(d)
Vanish — Vanish means to disappear, usually suddenly and completely. That is the same direction as dissolve, only faster — an intensified synonym rather than an opposite.

Concept

An antonym set is usually built as one opposite planted among near-synonyms.

Dissolve carries several senses. A solid dissolves in liquid. An assembly is dissolved, meaning formally brought to an end. A shape or an image dissolves, meaning it fades out of view.

Pick the sense the options are working in. Fade and vanish both belong to the disappearing sense, which tells you that is the sense on test, and appear is its clean reverse.

Solve is in the set on spelling alone.

In the chemistry sense the natural opposite would be crystallise or precipitate. Neither is offered, and that absence is itself the signal that the item is testing the fade-from-view sense.

Key facts

Dissolve means, among other senses, to fade gradually out of sight or out of existence.
Appear means to come into view or to begin to exist, which reverses that sense.
Vanish means to disappear suddenly and completely, making it a synonym of dissolve rather than an antonym.

Study next

Antonym sets built from one opposite and two synonyms of the given wordVerbs with several senses, where the antonym depends on which sense the options work inLook-alike pairs such as solve and dissolve, or absorb and adsorb

Common traps

Choosing solve because it looks like dissolve with a prefix stripped off, when the meanings have long since parted.
Testing only the chemistry sense of dissolve and then finding that no option fits it.
Reading fade as a weaker word and therefore an opposite, when weaker and opposite are different things.

Antonym sets of this shape — the opposite planted among synonyms — turn up repeatedly. At 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.9 Prohibit sits beside the keyed Allow for forbid, and at 12 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.9 Tiresome and Tedious sit beside the keyed Engrossing for monotonous.

The target word can instead be underlined inside a sentence, which fixes its sense for you, as at 10 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.8.

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