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• Question 1321: Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).The dramatist provided a satisfactory denouement to the play? Options:
  A) audition
  B) climax
  C) lavish
  D) simple
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1322:

  As the stranger approached, shola noticed that he was handsome and her excitement increased. It was of such a man she had dreamt. He had fine, arrogant carriage, like a soldier or someone in authority. When he reached the end of the pier, he addressed them in a rich, deep voice that disturbed her as the voluptuous rising of the tide had gone.

  ‘You’re Tunde Onu, I’m told’, he said to her father.

  ‘That’s right, said her father.

  ‘The bus conductor told me you take people to the islands’, the man continued. I’d like to go there if you can take me.

  Her father examined the man from head to foot, shrewdly measuring his capacity to pay. Then he said:

  ‘When were you thinking of going?’

  ‘Right away’.

  ‘That’s different story, for my boatman is gone to Badagry and he won’t be back before nightfall.

  ‘Oh!’ said the stranger. That’s too bad. You couldn’t get someone else instead of him?

  ‘I would have to think hard’, he said gloomily, for its not everyone would do for the job of going with me beyond the bay to the islands at this time of the year.

  Shola understood her father’s manoeuvre and felt ashamed.

  'Manoeuvre' in the passage means Options:
  A) shrewdness
  B) cleverness
  C) stupidity
  D) strategy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1323:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  When we were coming back from the picnic last Friday, there …. on EKO bridge.

  Options:
  A) Were many traffics
  B) Was much traffic
  C) Were plenty traffic
  D) Were losts of traffic
  E) Was a few traffic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1324:

  Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate of options A-E:

  I have refused to give him my pen because I don’t want him to ….. it again.

  Options:
  A) Loss
  B) Loose
  C) Lose
  D) Lost
  E) Lend
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1325:

  Choose the one opposite in meaning to the word(s) in underlined.

  I abhor a traitor

  Options:
  A) fallacious person
  B) reveler of secrets
  C) progressive element
  D) keeper of secrets
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1326:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:

  You are free to leave the hall

  Options:
  A) at an advantage
  B) opportuned
  C) at liberty
  D) right
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1327:

  In the question below, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence:

  Here is Mr Pam the tailor

  Options:
  A) He is the only person known as Mr Pam, and he is a tailor
  B) He is one of those known as Mr Pam, and he is a tailor
  C) He is the only tailor, and he is Mr Pam
  D) He is one of many tailors, and he is Mr Pam
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1328:

  In the following options lettered A to D, all the words except one have the same stress pattern.

  Choose the one with the different stress pattern

  Options:
  A) commit
  B) compare
  C) complete
  D) column
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1329:

  Complete the following with the appropriate answer to the question:

  John would you mind lifting this box?

  Options:
  A) yes, I mind
  B) no, I don't
  C) no, I do
  D) yes, I don't mind
  E) no I mind
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1330: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s). No wonder Sikemi later became a detective she has been very observant? Options:
  A) curious
  B) perceptive
  C) inductive
  D) inquisitive
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  The correct answer is B .