Choose the most appropriate antonym of the underlined word.
1. The sun was now ascending the sky.
(a) soaring
(b) rising
(c) mounting
(d) downhill
2. He ran a little forward to the brink of the ledge.
(a) centre
(b) brim
(c) threshold
(d) bridge
3. He waited a moment in surprise.
(a) weighted
(b) sat
(c) began
(d) astonished
4. He felt the heat because he had not eaten since the previous nightfall.
(a) warmness
(b) coldness
(c) seat
(d) heart
5. He searched among the rough, dirt-caked straw nest.
(a) coarse
(b) smooth
(c) bumpy
(d) blunt
6. He failed to muster up courage to take that plunge.
(a) dive
(b) climb
(c) fall
(d) plume
7. Between them, there was a deep, wide crack.
(a) cavernous
(b) dip
(c) narrow
(d) shallow
8. Maddened by hunger, he dived at the fish.
(a) surfeit
(b) famine
(c) appetite
(d) heat
9. He even gnawed at the dried pieces of eggshell.
(a) parched
(b) dehydrated
(c) fresh
(d) new other.
10. He then trotted back and forth from one end of the ledge to the
(a) scurried
(b) sauntered
(c) tracked
(d) rolled
11. As he passed beneath her, he heard the swish of her wings.
(a) underneath
(b) below
(c) above
(d) finit
12. The next moment, he felt his wings spread outwards.
(a) centrifugally
(b) inwards
(c) beautifully
(d) aloft
13. He flapped his wings and soared upwards.
(a) downwards
(b) inwards
(c) outwards
(d) lethargically
14. The precipice was sheer.
(a) steep
(b) gentle
(c) effervescence
(d) recap
15. The wind rushed against his breast feathers.
(a) gushed
(b) relaxed
(c) flushed
(d) plumes
16. He completely forgot his inability to fly.
(a) overlooked
(b) remembered
(c) ignored
(d) disregarded
17. His parents had landed in front of him.
(a) visible
(b) detectable
(c) behind
(d) anterior
18. They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly.
(a) summoning
(b) signaling
(c) dismissing
(d) requesting
19. He was tired and weak with hunger.
(a) scrawny
(b) puny
(c) week
(d) view
20. Hqwas floating on it.
(a) flowing
(b) fluctuating
(c) flinging
(d) strong
21. His family was screaming and praising him.
(a) diluting
(b) adulation
(c) exaltation
(d) fixed
22. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau.
(a) mountain
(b) dip
(c) hollow
(d) highland
23. He scraped his beak now and again to whet it!
(a) rubbed
(b) blunt
(c) wet
(d) sharpened
24. The great expanse of sea stretched down a long way down.
(a) short
(b) lengthy
(c) straight
(d) vision
25. He felt certain that his wings would never support him.
(a) nearer
(b) forever
(c) surely
(d) always
