A thesaurus is a book that's useful for finding synonyms and antonyms of
a word. This is particularly useful when one needs to find a better
equipped word for a piece of writing they are working on but are
struggling to find such a word within their own vocabulary alone.
Explanation:
new and ancient is not supposed to be there
1952 was a year of the Egyptian Revolution, which ended in the overthrow of the Egyptian King (who abdicated in favour of his newborn son in the hopes of keeping the dynasty, but the son was also removed from the position later)
and established the Republic of Egypt.
I don't know what your answer choices were but "stingy" sounds like a good word to fit in the sentence.
