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• Question 3741: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).The prosecutor was fully able to substantiate the charge Options:
  A) expatiate on
  B) prove
  C) dismiss
  D) weaken
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3742:

  Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase in italics:

  Aisha impelled to the party.

  Options:
  A) compelled
  B) accompained
  C) authority
  D) finance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3743: Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.Benjamin exclaimed, 'If it is Napoleon who said it, it must be right'? Options:
  A) Benjamin never believes what Napoleon says
  B) Benjamin does not know what is right unless Napoleon says it
  C) Napoleon always says what Benjamin believes to be right
  D) Benjamin thinks that Napoleon always says the right thing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3744:

  Answer the following question below and choose the option that best completes the gap(s):

  His many years of success in legal practice, _______didn't come without challenges.

  Options:
  A) indeed
  B) but
  C) inspite of it all
  D) however
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3745:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s):

  'Be that as _____ we are determined to get to the root of the matter!' shouted the officer

  Options:
  A) you like
  B) it may
  C) it would
  D) it might
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3746: Choose the option that best complete the gap. You may have the pencil, but you can't have the ballpoint ________. Options:
  A) As well.
  B) Either.
  C) Futhermore.
  D) Also.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3747:

  Choose the word which is opposite in meaning to the underlined word in each sentence:

  The doctor was very gentle with his patients in the examining room.

  Options:
  A) Harsh
  B) Rude
  C) Rough
  D) Unkind
  E) Callous
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3748: Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).We made a pie in the business deal? Options:
  A) lost a lot of money
  B) earned alot of money
  C) broke even
  D) cut corners
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3749:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap:

  I heard that Kayode's car was stolen last night. It _____ be true because I saw him _____ it, this morning.

  Options:
  A) should not/driving
  B) should not/drive
  C) cannot/drive
  D) cannot/driving
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3750:

  The appearance of comparative peace which Max’s house presented to me that morning proved quite deceptive. Oh perhaps some of Chief Nanga’s ‘queen bee’ characteristics had rubbed off on me and transformed me into an independent little nucleus of activity which I brought with me into this new place. That first night I not only heard of the new political party about to be born but got myself enrolled as a foundation member. Max and some of his friends having watched with deepening disillusion the use to which our hard-won freedom was being put by corrupt, mediocre politicians had decided to come together and launch the Common People’s Convention.

  There were eight young people in his room that evening. All but one were citizens of our country, mostly professional types. The only lady was a very beautiful lawyer who, I learnt afterwards, was engaged to Max whom she had first met at the London School of Economics. There was a trade-unionist, a doctor, another lawyer, a teacher and a newspaper columnist

  Max introduced me without any previous consultation as a ‘trustworthy comrade who had only the other day had his girlfriend snatched from him by minister who shall remain nameless’. Naturally I did not care for that kind of image reputation. So I promptly intervened to point out that the woman in question was not strictly speaking my girlfriend but a casual acquaintance who both Chief Nanga and I knew.

  ‘So it was Chief Nanga, yes?’ said the European and everyone burst out laughing.

  ‘Who else could it be?’ said one of the others.

  The Whiteman was apparently from one of the Eastern Bioc countries. He did not neglect to stress to me in an aside that he was there only as a friend of Max’s. He told me a lot of things quietly while the others were discussing some obscure details about the launching. I was as much interested in what he said as the way in which he said it. His English had an exotic quality occasionally – as when he said that it was good to see intellectuals like Max, myself and the rest coming out of their ‘tower or elephant tusk’ into active politics. And he often punctuated whatever he was saying with ‘yes’ spoken with the accent of a question.

  The speaker was attentive to the European because Options:
  A) he spoke funny English
  B) he was from an Eathern Bioc country
  C) what he said and how he said it interested him
  D) he is normally attentive to Europeans
  E) courtesy demands that he should be attentive
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  The correct answer is C .