Question

Find the synonym of the underlined word:
We were asked to list the chronology of events in the War of Independence on our history test.

a) Catastrophe
b) Time sequence
c) Disaster
d) Discrepancy
e) Revolution

Answer 1

Hint: A word that is similar in meaning to another word is a synonym. Synonyms are found in a book called Thesaurus.

Complete answer:

Chronology means the arrangement of a list of events according to the time when they occurred. It is arranged in such a way that the earliest event is listed first and the latest event is listed last. An example of a sentence is, ‘The events of the years of the British rule in India are given chronologically on the last page of our book’.
The given sentence means that the students were asked to list the events of the First War of Independence according to the dates on which they occurred. Therefore, the correct answer is option b, that is, time sequence.
Option a is wrong because catastrophe means a disastrous consequence.
Option c, that is ‘disaster’, means an incident which is very terrible. For example, 9/11 was a disaster.
A discrepancy in option d means when two or more facts are inconsistent with each other. For example, there were a lot of discrepancies when the political leader was narrating the tragic event of the bomb blast.
Option e is wrong because a revolution means when people rebel against a system of working, for example, the government.

Note: The word chronology can be easily mistaken to mean ‘catastrophe’ or ‘disaster’ from the context of the sentence. So, it is important to have a good vocabulary.