Question

Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the italicised part of the sentence.

The President of the party deprecated the move of the Government to introduce electoral reforms in a haste.

• A. extricated
• B. humiliated
• C. condemned
• D. welcomed

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

To “deprecate” means to express disapproval of.

Option C is the correct answer because “condemned” means to censure or express complete disapproval of, hence it is the correct meaning.

Option A is incorrect because “extricated” means freed from a problem, which is not relevant to the given word.

Option B is incorrect because “humiliated” means to make someone feel ashamed which is not necessarily true on condemning something.

Option D Is incorrect because to welcome means to happily accept, which Ian the antonym of the given word.