Question

Find the synonym of the underlined word:
The old man was too feeble to sit down at his table and write his letter, so his nephew wrote down what he wanted to say.

a) Tired
b) Weak
c) Timid
d) Blind
e) Crazy

Answer 1

Hint: If word A is the synonym of word B, it means that the meaning of word A is similar to that of word B.

Complete answer:

The word feeble means to be very weak. A feeble man is a man who does not have enough strength to do something. Old men are usually feeble. In the given sentence, the old man was too feeble to sit down at a table and write a letter. It means he did not have enough strength to write a letter. So, the correct answer is option b, that is, weak.
Option a is wrong because feeble does not mean tired. Tired is temporary exhaustion but being feeble is a condition of a body.
Option c means shy. The old man was not shy to write a letter. He was just very weak. An example of a sentence with ‘timid’ is: The deer is a timid animal.
Option d means not being able to see. One cannot be ‘too’ blind. Being blind does not have a degree- being more blind or less blind. Blindness is absolute. For example, I helped the blind woman cross the road.
Option e, ‘crazy’, means to not think in a way that a normal human being would. A crazy person does things that would not fit in with societal norms. For example, he was crazy to have stood upon the table in the college canteen.

Note: One word can have a lot of synonyms. It is advised to read the complete question properly. The selected answer needs to be put in the place of the asked question and checked if it is grammatically correct.