Multiple choice

Directions: For the following question, select the option which is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the key word:

FUSILLADE

  1. barrage

  2. volley

  3. holocaust

  4. incursion

  5. armistice
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Fusillade means a simultaneous or rapid and continuous discharge of many firearms. Its antonym is armistice, that means a temporary stopping of warfare by mutual agreement, as a truce preliminary to the signing of a peace treaty; cease-fire. Hence, (E) is the answer.

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