Verbal Ability - One Word Substitutes - Discussion

Asylum is the professional term in international law, which means shelter or refuge to those foreigners who are under serious threat. For instant, Muhammadullah Gullen is a native inhabitant of Turkey but took Political Asylum from America and now lives there.

What is meaning of sanatorium?

Asylum is for mentally retarted people.

The protection granted by a state to someone who has left their native country as a political refuge.

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.