[Solved] Which of the following is not a synonym of 'profusion
Read the following passage and answer the questions by choosing the most appropriate option:
A traveller who studies the menu on a transatlantic liner or, indeed. in some American hotels has a paralyzing sensation. There is so much to eat — far more than he can possibly digest. One sometimes has the same feeling about education, which also offers an enormous bill of fare. Almost any dish can be found in it, from Greek to stenography, from music to economics. How are we to choose from the bewildering profusion ? What dishes are we to order if we wish not merely to fill ourselves up, but to get the nourishment necessary to a healthy life, to become really educated people ? That question cannot be answered without asking and answering another — what is education for ? If that problem were suddenly put to pupils in school, or to students in college, or even to parents, I doubt if all of them could, on the spur of the moment, give a clear and convincing reply. Most of us are educated because our parents wish it, or because attendance at school is a habit of our society, or because it is compulsory, or because it is apparently necessary to succeed in the world. But these, though at the moment they may be conclusive reasons for desiring education or, at any rate, submitting to it, will not by themselves secure our getting from it what it has to give; and if we go to schools or colleges with no more definite reasons at the back of our minds, we are likely to rise from our meal there replete perhaps but ill- nourished.
Whether we are teachers or students, we ought to get firmly in our minds the idea that whatever else may come by the way, education will be incomplete and unsatisfactory if it fails to give a clear view of what is first-rate in the subject studied. Otherwise we may have got some knowledge, but we shall not have got education.
Which of the following is not a synonym of 'profusion'?
HTET TGT Mathematics and Science 2014 - 2015 Official Paper
The correct answer is 'Limited'.
The meaning of the word 'profusion' is 'large quantity of something'.
Abundance: a large quantity of something
Plenitude: large number
Limited: bounded
Hence, the word 'Limited' is not a synonym of the word 'profusion'.