Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the given…

An antonym is a word whose meaning is the direct opposite of another word's meaning; unlike synonyms (which restate a similar sense) or loosely related terms (which share only surface context), a true antonym reverses the core action or state the original word expresses.

In the given sentence, ‘deferred’ describes submitting to, or complying with, the host's guidance — i.e., accepting another person's authority rather than acting against it. The word that most directly reverses this sense — active resistance to that authority — is ‘Opposed’.

• ‘Directed’ places the subject in the role of giving guidance rather than receiving or resisting it, so it does not reverse the meaning of submitting to someone else.

• ‘Yielded’ restates the same idea of submitting or giving way, making it a near-synonym of ‘deferred’ rather than its opposite.

• ‘Ignored’ denotes passive inattention rather than active resistance, so it is a weaker, different concept than the direct reversal an antonym requires.

Standard dictionaries (e.g., Merriam-Webster, Cambridge) define ‘defer (to)’ as submitting to another's wishes, opinion, or judgment; the standard antonym pairing for this sense is ‘oppose’, confirming ‘Opposed’ as the correct choice.