Choose the word that's opposite in assuming the given word.

ACCELERATE

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Creep

Drag

Lag

Delay

answer is D.

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Concept: As we've seen before, antonyms also are called opposite words. Anything that's opposite differs in its meaning completely from the given word. If the word is abundant, its opposite would be a word meaning insufficient for demand i.e., scarce. Similarly, if the word is distant, its opposite would be a word meaning to be next to something i.e. adjacent.
In the given question, the word is ‘accelerate’. Accelerate may be a verb that's derived from the Latin word ‘accelerare’. To accelerate means to quicken the speed or the extent. This word is usually used when speaking about vehicles. Now that we all know what the word means, we must find a word whose meaning is the opposite of ‘accelerate’. Logically, this implies that we've got to seek out a word whose meaning is to decrease the speed or extent. Out of all the given options, the word delay, which implies, to cut down something, is the correct match of this opposite meaning.
Hence, option ‘4’ is the correct answer.

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