Question

Choose the correct meaning of the given phrase:
"Lose heart"
A. Become desperate
B. Feel sad
C. Become angry
D. Become discouraged

Answer 1

Hint:There are times when we feel very excited about something and we feel different moods on other occasions. If someone asks us to describe our emotion, we usually stammer or hesitate and end up saying that I have 'run out of words'. However, this does not mean that our whole vocabulary skills have been exhausted or are used up. Instead, this group of words or this 'phrase' refers to the situation where we have become so surprised by a particular topic that it has left us speechless. Hence, a phrase is defined by a short group of words that are arranged together as a conceptual unit. They typically form a component of a clause and thus express a particular meaning.

Complete answer:
1. In the question, we have been asked to choose the best meaning of the phrase, 'lose heart' from the given options. In order to do so, we first have to study the meaning of the phrase 'lose heart' and then we shall move on to the phrase that expresses its meaning correctly.
2. In order to understand the meaning of the phrase 'lose heart', let us study an example situation. In a hospital, we often see the family members of patients who are tense and worried for their loved ones. The hospital staff and doctors encourage them to not 'lose heart'. Thus, this phrase is a verb that refers to being discouraged. Someone may even stop believing that he/she may never succeed.
3. Among the options given in the question, we can see that the last option, 'become discouraged' is the correct answer to this question as it correctly expresses the meaning of the phrase 'lose heart'.
4. Therefore, option D is the correct answer to this question. That is, ‘become discouraged’ is the closest meaning of ‘lose heart’.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘D'.

Note: In this question, we studied that a group of words when arranged together form a phrase. This phrase expresses emotion of a particular situation effectively. We studied the meaning of it with the help of the phrase given to us in the question itself.