Paryayvachi-Vilom MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

घर and मकान both mean a house — a same-meaning pair. बादल and मेघ both mean a cloud — a same-meaning pair. वृक्ष and पेड़ both mean a tree — a same-meaning pair. But अमीर means rich and गरीब means poor; these are opposite-meaning words and form a विलोम pair, not a पर्यायवाची pair. Mixing the two categories is the most common primary-stage error because both पर्यायवाची and विलोम are taught as paired words; the pedagogic check is to ask 'do these two words mean the same thing?' for synonyms or 'do these mean opposite things?' for antonyms. Option C fails the same-meaning test.

श्रुतिसम भिन्नार्थी words sound very similar but mean different things. पाठ means a lesson or a chapter studied in school; पाट means a wooden board, plank, or the flat seat of a loom. The two words have the same opening sound and identical Devanagari shape except for the final letter, so they are very easy to confuse when heard quickly — exactly the homophone trap a Class III–V learner is taught to avoid. पथ means a path or road, पाँव means a foot, and पात्र means a vessel or character; these differ noticeably from पाठ in either spelling shape or sound, so they are not the closest homophone partner. The standard primary pair is पाठ–पाट.

आकाश means the sky, the wide space seen above the earth. गगन is a standard synonym for आकाश because both words refer to the sky. धरती means earth or ground, समुद्र means sea, and पर्वत means mountain; these are different geographical features and are not synonyms of आकाश.

विलोम pairs name two opposite ends of the same idea. सुख and दुख are opposite emotional states (happiness and sorrow) — a valid pair. ऊँचा and नीचा are opposite vertical positions (high and low) — a valid pair. सच and झूठ are opposite about truthfulness (truth and falsehood) — a valid pair. But गाय and बैल are not opposites; they are two animals of the same cattle family, separated only by sex. A pair must point to opposite meaning to qualify as विलोम; pointing only to a different category member does not. Therefore three of the four pairs are valid विलोम pairs.

At the primary stage, four standard pairs introduced through Rimjhim and state primary Hindi books are: सूर्य and रवि (the sun), चंद्रमा and चाँद (the moon), पुष्प and फूल (a flower), and पानी and जल (water). Matching each List I word with its same-meaning partner in List II gives a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1. These pairs are chosen because the second word is the everyday-spoken form children already know, while the first word is the slightly more formal form they meet in print, so the pair builds a bridge from spoken Hindi to written Hindi. Mismatched options swap the partners and create wrong same-meaning links, which a Class III–V child must learn to spot quickly.