Question

Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given word/phrase:
MASSACRE
A) Murder
B) Stab
C) Assassinate
D) Slaughter

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:
The meaning of massacre is ‘the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings. And we must find the correct answer from the options given whose meaning is the same as that of massacre.

Option A) Murder - is an incorrect answer because the meaning of murder is ‘the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another or homicide or killing’ and this is not the synonym of massacre because their meanings are not same. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Option B) Stab - is an incorrect answer because the meaning of stab is ‘thrust a knife or other pointed weapon into (someone) so as to wound or kill or skewer’ and this is not the synonym of massacre because their meanings are not same. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Option C) Assassinate - is an incorrect answer because the meaning of assassinate is ‘murder (an important person) for political or religious reasons or murder or kill or execute’ and this is not the synonym of massacre because their meanings are not same. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Option D) Slaughter - is the correct answer because the meaning of slaughter is ‘kill or butcher or killing large number of animals for food or unnecessary killing of human beings or brutally murder’ and this is the synonym of the word massacre and they can be used in place of each other because they have similar meaning. Thus, this is the correct answer.

Hence, the correct answer is Option ‘D’.

Note:Synonyms are the words that have the same or similar meaning i.e. synonym of massacre is slaughter, and antonym are the words that are opposite in meaning and the antonym of massacre is saving or rescuing. Thus, Option D is the correct answer as the question is all about telling the same or similar meaning of the word massacre and other options are wrong.