Verbal Ability - One Word Substitutes - Discussion

Asylum is for mentally retarted people.

The meaning of refuge is shelter or protection etc.

A place that provides refuge is Asylum. I think so.

The correct answer should be shelter. Asylum is for mentally challenged people.

Asylum is the home for mentally challenged person. How can this be the answer. The correct answer should be shelter.

There is not just one meaning to a word people and considering this question and is totally correct --- just have a look.

Asylum (antiquity) , places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome.

Benevolent Asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute.

Church asylum or sanctuary, a right to be safe from arrest in the sanctuary of a church or temple.

Insane asylum, an obsolete type of institution for housing those deemed "insane".

Orphan asylum or orphanage, an institution dedicated to caring for orphans.

Right of asylum or political asylum.

Asylum magazine, a radical mental health magazine.

The correct answer is shelter as asylum is hospital for mentals.

Asylum is not home for mentally challenged people but mental asylum is home for mentally challenged people.

If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons, so asylum is correct.

It should be shelter as asylum is for mentally challenged people.

Asylum is for mentally disturbed peoples