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Jeff_999 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Antonym/employ
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A. leave idle
B. deny access
C. gather together
D. disregard
E. dissolve
(Choose a lettered word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in the capital letters.)
A or B?
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A. leave idle
B. deny access
C. gather together
D. disregard
E. dissolve
(Choose a lettered word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in the capital letters.)
A or B?
bbsTop answer
A Clive
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Thank you Clive. I chose A too, but the answer provided in my transcript is B. Guess it's a typo.
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Well, let's eliminate C-E first.
C. gather together - This is like "interview", you gather potential employees together before hiring one.
D. disregard - This is like "bias", disregarding a potential employee based on race, ***, or possibly beliefs.
E. dissolve - This is like "fire", dissolving them from the company.
Now we are left with A and B
A. lea
C. gather together - This is like "interview", you gather potential employees together before hiring one.
D. disregard - This is like "bias", disregarding a potential employee based on race, ***, or possibly beliefs.
E. dissolve - This is like "fire", dissolving them from the company.
Now we are left with A and B
A. lea
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I would say A. "Employ" means not only "to hire " but also "to put to use" (as in, "We must employ all the resources available to us." The opposite of this would be "to leave idle" or "not to use purposefully."
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Leave idle is the obvious choice for me, as in Khoff's example.
Employ = to use
Leave idle = not to use
Employ = to use
Leave idle = not to use
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Just because you may not be employing something (putting something to use) doesn't mean someone else isn't either.
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Idle and used are opposite concepts. There is no way around it. While something is idle it cannot at the same time be employed/used (unless it has two lives). If something is employed, it doesn't matter who is employing it or who is not; if its employed, it is not idle.
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"While something is idle it cannot at the same time be employed/used"
A car can be idle and in use at the same time.
"if its employed, it is not idle."
1. If A, then not B - can be true
2. If not A, then B - not necessarily
1. If the smoke detector goes off, then the house is not safe (either because there is a fire or the battery needs replacing).
A car can be idle and in use at the same time.
"if its employed, it is not idle."
1. If A, then not B - can be true
2. If not A, then B - not necessarily
1. If the smoke detector goes off, then the house is not safe (either because there is a fire or the battery needs replacing).
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