Question

Find the synonym of the underlined word:
We must not neglect to file our income tax if we don’t want to pay a fine.
a. Hope
b. Forget
c. Promise
d. Refuse
e. Remind

Answer 1

Hint: Synonym is a word that means the same as the given word. The given word is ‘neglect’, which means avoid or ignore. One must look for words synonymous to the given word, for the correct answer. 

Correct solution:
We have discussed the meaning of the underlined word above. Option a, “hope” means desire, wish or expectation and it is irrelevant to the context of the given word, hence option ‘a’ is an incorrect option.
Option b, ‘forget’ means to not remember, fail or neglect, which is similar in meaning to the given word, hence option b is the correct option.
Option c, ‘promise’ means to assure or to swear, which is irrelevant to the given word and its context, hence option c is an incorrect option.
Option d, ‘refuse’ means to deny or reject, which again is completely irrelevant to the given word, hence is incorrect as well.
Option e, ‘remind’, means to jog someone’s memory, which is irrelevant to the context of the given word, hence is an incorrect choice. Option b, is the correct choice.
 
Note:  One can try to replace the given word with the options to see if the meaning of the sentence remains the same.
“We must not forget to file our income tax if we don’t want to pay a fine.”
Here, the meaning of the sentence remains the same even on replacing the word neglect.