10th Standard English - Antonyms

 

here are some antonyms for the vocabulary commonly found in the Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi 10th standard English syllabus:

1.      Abandon - Retain

2.      Abundant - Scarce

3.      Accept - Reject

4.      Accurate - Inaccurate

5.      Admire - Despise

6.      Advantage - Disadvantage

7.      Agree - Disagree

8.      Alive - Dead

9.      Allow - Forbid

10.  Ancient - Modern

11.  Appear - Disappear

12.  Artificial - Natural

13.  Ascend - Descend

14.  Attract - Repel

15.  Beautiful - Ugly

16.  Benevolent - Malevolent

17.  Bold - Timid

18.  Brave - Cowardly

19.  Calm - Agitated

20.  Capture - Release

21.  Cautious - Careless

22.  Cease - Continue

23.  Civilized - Uncivilized

24.  Combine - Separate

25.  Comfort - Discomfort

26.  Compassionate - Cruel

27.  Competent - Incompetent

28.  Conceal - Reveal

29.  Confident - Hesitant

30.  Construct - Destroy

31.  Convenient - Inconvenient

32.  Courage - Cowardice

33.  Create - Destroy

34.  Dangerous - Safe

35.  Decrease - Increase

36.  Defeat - Victory

37.  Defend - Attack

38.  Delicate - Sturdy

39.  Delight - Disgust

40.  Demand - Supply

41.  Despair - Hope

42.  Deteriorate - Improve

43.  Discipline - Chaos

44.  Doubt - Certainty

45.  Dynamic - Static

46.  Eager - Reluctant

47.  Early - Late

48.  Easy - Difficult

49.  Educated - Ignorant

50.  Elder - Younger

51.  Encourage - Discourage

52.  End - Beginning

53.  Enjoy - Suffer

54.  Enlarge - Reduce

55.  Enter - Exit

56.  Expand - Contract

57.  Expert - Novice

58.  Failure - Success

59.  Famous - Unknown

60.  Fear - Courage

61.  Fertile - Barren

62.  Few - Many

63.  Fiction - Reality

64.  Follow - Lead

65.  Friend - Enemy

66.  Genuine - Fake

67.  Generous - Stingy

68.  Giant - Dwarf

69.  Give - Take

70.  Happiness - Sadness

71.  Harmful - Beneficial

72.  Hasty - Deliberate

73.  Health - Illness

74.  Hero - Villain

75.  Honest - Dishonest

76.  Humid - Dry

77.  Ignore - Notice

78.  Include - Exclude

79.  Increase - Decrease

80.  Indifferent - Concerned

81.  Innocent - Guilty

82.  Intelligent - Stupid

83.  Interesting - Boring

84.  Junior - Senior

85.  Knowledge - Ignorance

86.  Lack - Abundance

87.  Lazy - Industrious

88.  Light - Dark

89.  Liquid - Solid

90.  Lonely - Crowded

91.  Love - Hate

92.  Major - Minor

93.  Mature - Immature

94.  Modern - Ancient

95.  Native - Foreign

96.  Neat - Messy

97.  Normal - Abnormal

98.  Nourish - Starve

99.  Offer – Refuse

100.       Optimistic - Pessimistic

These antonyms will help understand the opposite meanings of common words and improve vocabulary skills.

Choose the most appropriate antonym of the underlined word.

Question 1. ­ Technology impacts the environment, people and the society as a whole.
(a) partial (b) entire (c) unabridged (d) hollow
Answer:   (a) partial

Question 2.  They continue to grapple with the challenges of inclusion.
(a) seclusion (b) enclosure (c) addition (d) exclusion
Answer:   (d) exclusion

Question 3.  Your entire energy management can be taken care by automating.
(a) complete (b) perfect (c) partial (d) whole
Answer: (c) partial

Question 4. Well, anything which is a certain threshold, can be self-ordered.
(a) unsure (b) sure (c) convinced (d) ascertain
Answer: (a) unsure

Question 5. Your refrigerator can directly link to the e-commerce site.
(a) unswervingly (b) openly (c) indirectly (d) straightly
Answer:  (c) indirectly

Question 6. India Meteorological Department collected data for monitoring marine pollution.
(a) distributed (b) cancelled (c) threshold (d) bridge
Answer: (a) distributed

Question 7.  It is a great boost to women in the country.
(a) broaden (b) increase (c) knock (d) brew
Answer:  (c) knock

Question 8. You don’t have to use any auxiliary means of repulsion.
(a) disgust (b) revolution (c) repercussions (d) attraction
Answer:  (d) attraction

Question 9. It is about a hurricane force of wind on land.
(a) farce (b) vigour (c) weakness (d) potency
Answer:  (c) weakness

Question 10. I wanted to make sure that I complete this journey with ultimate honesty.
(a) honourable (b) dishonesty (c) rectitude (d) scrupulousness
Answer:  (b) dishonesty

Question 11. So my contention was to go by the rules of circumnavigation.
(a) disagreement (b) agreement (c) dispute (d) deputation
Answer: (b) agreement

Question 12. The ghost raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings.
(a) misinterpretation (b) calculations (c) silence (d) tumult
Answer:  (c) silence

Question 13. They were the steps of a man walking rapidly.
(a) forcibly (b) speedily (c) hurriedly (d) leisurely
Answer:  (d) leisurely

Question 14. The cops were reluctant to leave.
(a) indisposed (b) settle (c) keen (d) lazy
Answer:  (c) keen

Question 15. The police were on hand in a commendably short time.
(a) laudably (b) outrageously (c) committedly (d) admirably
Answer:  (b) outrageously

Question 16. He believed that General Meade’s men, were beginning to retreat.
(a) rejoice (b) advance (c) evacuation (d) withdrawal
Answer:  (b) advance

Question 17. The steps had ceased.
(a) stopped (b) seized (c) begun (d) terminated
Answer:  (c) begun

Question 18. Then, as I hurried by as fast as I could go.
(a) hassled (b) released (c) relaxed (d) warmed
Answer:  (c) relaxed

Question 19. The oppressors dominated over the language and culture of the Germans.
(a) liberated (b) released (c) conquered (d) controlled
Answer:  (a) liberated

Question 20. The Prussians defeated the French.
(a) aimed (b) brought (c) triumphed (d) drained
Answer:  (c) triumphed

Question 21.He has been sinking.
(a) drowning (b) foaling (c) running (d) sleeping
Answer:  (b) foaling

Question 22. The man was startled.
(a) reassured (b) amused (c) alarmed (ð) annoyed
Answer:  (a) reassured

Question 23.  He was a frail man.
(a) weak (b) feeble (c) strong (d) thin
Answer:  (c) strong

Question 24.  How ignorant you are!
(a) lacking in knowledge (b) well- informed (c) uninformed (d) unaware
Answer:  (b) well- informed

Question 25. You will Persuade him to come.
(a) dissuade (b) urge (c) distract
Answer:  (a) dissuade

Question 26.  He failed to muster up courage to take that plunge.
(a) dive (b) climb (c) fall (d) plume
Answer:  (b) climb

Question 27. He even gnawed at the dried pieces of eggshell.
(a) parched (b) dehydrated (c) fresh (d) new
Answer:  (c) fresh

Question 28.  He then trotted back and forth from one end of the ledge to the other.
(a) scurried (b) sauntered (c) tracked (d) rolled
Answer:  (b) sauntered

Question 29.  The precipice was sheer.
(a) steep (b) gradual (c) effervescence (d) recap
Answer:  (b) gradual

Question 30.  They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly.
(a) summoning (b) signaling (c) dismissing (d) requesting
Answer:  (c) dismissing