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• Question 1781: In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) Underlined: The news of his performance in the sessional examination has made Okechukwu crestfallen Options:
  A) highly irritable
  B) dejected
  C) elated
  D) pompous
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1782: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  When did Talle stop being quiet?

  Options:
  A) When he started taking to market women
  B) When he started making friends
  C) when his usual demand for food items doubled
  D) When he made friends with Zaki
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1783:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the italicized words or expressions.

  The police later discovered that Audu feigned death.

  Options:
  A) Cheated
  B) Assumed
  C) Suggested
  D) Faked
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1784:

  Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap.

  Knowledge of figures of speech as well as of idiom and lexical items ____________ in this section.

  Options:
  A) is tested
  B) have been tested
  C) are tested
  D) were tested
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1785:

  Choose the word or phrase from A to E which has the nearest meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentence :

  Mary is jealous of her sister’s success.

  Options:
  A) Suspicious
  B) Bitter
  C) Careful
  D) Mindful
  E) Envious
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1786:

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

  In may 1978 the rain fell incessantly and made life drab

  Options:
  A) at intervals
  B) recurrently
  C) repeatedly
  D) concurrently
  E) continously
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1787:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word or phrase in.

  Election processes often become volatile

  Options:
  A) calm
  B) strange
  C) sudden
  D) latent
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1788:

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

  He gave himself up by his plebeian tastes?

  Options:
  A) robust
  B) voracious
  C) patrician
  D) laughable
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1789: In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word(s) Underlined:The explosive growth of world population has not been caused by a sudden increase in human fertility Options:
  A) fantastic
  B) gradual
  C) combustible
  D) dangerous
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1790:

  At the time of trouble in Ireland, a priest said, ‘Man is half beast’, A diplomat replied, ‘Yes. And the beast is the half I like the best’. The priest meant that beasts behave as badly as man when man makes up his mind to behave badly. If you look at the folly and cruelty of today’s world, it is hard to disagree with the diplomat or the priest. But human nature can be changed. Anybody, if that is what they most want to do, can change the most difficult person they know. The art of changing people has been lost in the modern world. That is why the modern world has lost its way.

  There are two ways of looking at human nature. One is to make the best of it and it is assume that it is the raw material of life which cannot be altered. That is what most people in the free world to today. In these circumstances, if you expect the worst, you are seldom disappointed. Faith today has become irrelevant to the everyday needs, of so many people in positions of responsibility because they do not expect faith to change men.

  Another way of dealing with human nature is to exploit it. All materialistic s, whether of the right or the left, do this. All over the world vanity, fear, ambition, lust and greed are used to control the life of men; and if the control breaks down, man does not hesitate to use force, or to destroy life. The end, he says, justifies the means and men are only of value in so far as they are a means towards the achievement of his ambition. If they cannot be bribed or forced to play their part, then they must be liquidated.

  Materials can be found Options:
  A) in capitalist countries
  B) in communist countries
  C) in less developed countries
  D) among people who do not have neighbours
  E) all over the world
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  The correct answer is E .