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The U.S. appreciates Turkey and Russia's efforts to reach a cease-fire in Idlib's de-escalation zone and underlined that the attacks targeting civilians must stop. Find the pair of words where the first word is a synonym of the highlighted word, and the second word is an antonym of the given word.

  1. asinine: recuperate
  2. rectify: avenge
  3. acknowledge: disparage
  4. tarnish: eschew

Correct answer: acknowledge: disparage

Solution

'Appreciates' here means 'recognizes' or 'values,' so a synonym is 'acknowledge.' Its antonym is 'disparage,' which means to belittle or criticize. Hence, the correct pair is 'acknowledge: disparage.'

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