Question

Find the synonym of the underlined word.
He yearns to ask his girlfriend to marry him, but he is too bashful to do so.
a. hopes
b. wants
c. plans
d. refuses
e. discourages

Answer 1

Hint: Go through each option one by one, and try to understand the meaning of each option by using it in a sent then, choose the option that has the same meaning to the given word.

Complete answer: A synonym is a word/phrase that has the exact or nearly the same meaning as another word/phrase in the same language, for example, ‘talk’ is a synonym of ‘chat’, as they convey the same exact meaning as each other, which means that they can replace each other in a sentence. The word ‘yearns’ refers to ‘have an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from’.

Now, we know the meaning and usage of the given word. Let’s look at the given