Why the answer is B, and why the others tempt you.
**The reasoning**
An antonym is a word with the **opposite meaning**. "Cheap" means something costs very little money or has low value. The direct opposite is "expensive" — something that costs a lot of money or has high value.
Think of it like a price scale: cheap sits at one end (₦100 for a shirt), expensive sits at the other end (₦50,000 for a shirt). They're polar opposites on the cost spectrum.
**Why the wrong options tempt you**
- **Free** seems opposite because it costs nothing, but "free" is actually *beyond* cheap — it's zero cost. The true opposite of cheap is something costly, not something that costs nothing.
- **Common** might confuse you because cheap items are often common, but "common" refers to how frequently something appears, not its price.
- **Easy** has nothing to do with cost at all — it describes difficulty level.
**Quick takeaway**
When finding antonyms, think of the **exact opposite on the same scale**: cheap ↔ expensive (both describe cost), hot ↔ cold (both describe temperature), tall ↔ short (both describe height).
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