Direction: In the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
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Barren
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- oily
- polished
- sorrowful
- fertile
Correct Option: D
Fertile (Adjective) = of soil or land, producing abundant vegetation or crops; fecund; yielding; able to conceive
Barren (Adjective) = of land too poor to produce much or any vegetation; infertile; sterile; showing no result; unable to produce plants or fruit. Look at the sentence : We drove through a barren, rockly landscape. There is an abundance of fertile soil and magnificent grazing land in the Gangetic plain.