UPSC EPFO EO/AO 2021 · Question 9
Question 9 of the UPSC EPFO EO/AO Recruitment Test 2021 (General Ability Test, Advt. 51/2020) (5 September 2021). Try it first, then open the answer and explanation.
Choose the word opposite in meaning to the underlined word "immigrants". Some sick "immigrants" were detained at the airport.
- settlers
- natives
- vagabonds
- foreigners
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Answer: (2) natives
"Immigrants" are people who come to live permanently in a country that is not their own. The opposite is "natives", people born in the place where they live. "Settlers" (people who go to live in a new place) and "foreigners" (people from another country) are close to the meaning of immigrants, not opposite. "Vagabonds" are people who wander from place to place without a home or job, which is unrelated. Note that the opposite of "immigrant" in the sense of direction is "emigrant", a person who leaves their own country to live in another, but it is not offered.