Question

Choose the option which is similar in meaning to the word given below.
FURLOUGH

• A. Soldiers holiday
• B. Wild growth
• C. Wooden plough
• D. Till

Hint:

Think of the word in a military context, permission to be away from duty.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Another way to crack a synonym question is to break the word into recognizable parts or recall it from a familiar context. "Furlough" comes from an old Dutch and German root meaning "permission," and in English usage it survives almost exclusively in the phrase "granted furlough," typically used for soldiers or government employees taking sanctioned time off duty.

Using this contextual memory, we scan the options for anything related to permission, leave, or time off: only "Soldiers holiday" fits, since a holiday is essentially a sanctioned break, and pairing it with "soldiers" mirrors the military association furlough carries.

The other three options, wild growth, wooden plough, and till, are all tied to farming and land, a field that shares no etymological or contextual link with furlough. This confirms they are distractors meant to test whether a candidate confuses furlough with an unrelated rustic term.

Let's summarize:

• Furlough's root sense is "permission to be away," most often military.
• Only option A carries this sense of sanctioned leave.

Anchoring a word to its most common real world usage, here military leave, is often faster than relying purely on dictionary definitions.