Question

Choose the most suitable ‘one word’ for the following phrase.
Shining, brilliant and magnificent
A) Luminous
B) Gleaming
C) Resplendent
D) Polished

Answer 1

Hint:Synonyms are the words that have the same or similar meaning and to avoid repetition synonyms are used. For example: the synonym of beautiful is pretty and adorable.

Complete answer:
Option A) Luminous – is an incorrect answer because the meaning of luminous is ‘giving off light; bright or shining or radiant or glowing’ but luminous does not define brilliant. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Option B) Gleaming – is an incorrect answer because the meaning of gleaming is ‘reflecting light, typically because it is very clean or polished’ but gleaming does not define brilliant and magnificent. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Option C) Resplendent – is the correct answer because the meaning of resplendent is ‘attractive and impressive through being richly colourful or sumptuous or magnificent or glittering and glowing’. Therefore, resplendent define the ‘shining, brilliant and magnificent’ in one word. Thus, this is the correct answer.

Option D) Polished – is an incorrect answer because the meaning of polished is ‘shining, bright, glossy, gleaming, smooth and bright’ and polished does not define the brilliant. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Hence, the correct answer is Option ‘C’.

Note:In such questions, synonyms play a major role as they give the same meaning. So, Option C is the most appropriate answer as compared to the other options as they fail to give the synonyms of all the three words i.e. shining, brilliant and magnificent.
Polished (Option D) and gleaming (Option B) are synonyms of each other because they have the same meaning.