Question

Choose the synonym of the underlined word.
It's incredible to see him in such good health after the accident.
A. Creditable
B. Increasing
C. Unthinkable
D. Unbelievable

Answer 1

Hint: In linguistics, there are many words which closely resemble each other in their meanings. But they are not exactly the same. These words are synonyms which are thousands in number. One can be baffled by the degree of similarity in these, but they are meant to be used in different contexts. We just have to keep in mind their usage. This will clear all the confusions we have about these synonyms. Similarly, in this question, we can see that some of the words that have been given to us are similar in meanings whereas some are not. We have to understand the meaning and the usage of each word so that we can pick the correct answer from them.

Complete answer:
1. The meaning of the underlined word, incredible is something impossible to believe.
In order to find the correct answer, we need to go through all the options one by one and find their meaning in order to get the right word that resembles this underlined word.
2. The first option 'creditable' means deserving public acknowledgement but not necessary that it will be outstanding or superb. For example, “The rendition performed by the artist was credible”.
3. The second option 'increasing' means ascending. It can be used in a sentence such as, “The temperature of the region has increased considerably in recent years”.
4. The third option 'unthinkable' refers to something difficult to think about. For instance, “The audiences' reaction after the play was unthinkable”.
5. The fourth option, 'unbelievable' is something difficult to believe. For instance, “The wall art at the exhibition was unbelievably beautiful”.
6. Hence, we can clearly say that the word 'unbelievable' is the perfect synonym of the given word.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘D'.

Note:In this question, we saw that some of the words that have been given to us are similar in meanings whereas some are not. We understood the meaning and the usage of each word. This enabled us to pick the correct answer from them.