Select the word that is the most appropriate antonym of the word:- Retract
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Confirm
To retract means to take back or withdraw a statement, promise or claim, admitting that it should not have been made. Its antonym is confirm.
Example: The newspaper had to retract the story and apologise.
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Accept | to agree to take or receive something (its opposite is refuse or reject, not retract) | She accepted the job offer at once. |
| (2) Confirm (answer) | to state or show that something is true and to stand by it (taking a statement back and standing by it as true are opposite actions) | The minister confirmed the news at a press conference. |
| (3) Salvage | to save something from being lost or destroyed (it has no link with taking back words) | They managed to salvage a few books from the flooded library. |
| (4) Divulge | to reveal a secret (it is the opposite of conceal, not of retract) | He refused to divulge the name of his source. |
| Synonyms of retract: withdraw, take back, recant, revoke Antonyms of retract: confirm, affirm, maintain, reaffirm Also asked in CUET (UG): retract – 28-05-2025 Slot 1, 21-05-2025 Slot 2 divulge – 14-06-2023 Slot 3, 07-06-2023 Slot 1 |