In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
He missed the point because he took the statement ….
- A. literally
- B. literarily
- C. literary
- D. uniliterally
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
The officer was compelled to …. the suspects’s car.
- A. seize
- B. cease
- C. sieze
- D. sease
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
He did not attend the final burial ….
- A. rite
- B. rights
- C. rites
- D. right
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
Gone are the days when he … enjoy patronage.
- A. would
- B. will
- C. used to
- D. could
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
The committee was frustrated because the Chief withheld his ….
- A. accent
- B. access
- C. assent
- D. ascent
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
I can quickly recite the National Anthem …. now.
- A. off head
- B. off by heart
- C. at hand
- D. off hand
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
I am …. to another week’s holiday this year after such a tedious job.
- A. due
- B. qualified
- C. looking
- D. entitled
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
….. yet about the principal?
- A. Are there any news
- B. Are there some news
- C. Is there any news
- D. Is their any news
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
My wife and i met …. on a ship going to Liberia.
- A. ourselves
- B. one another
- C. each other
- D. ourself
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
‘Darling, do send the children to bed. I can’t …. their noise any longer’ he said to is wife
- A. make do with
- B. make up
- C. deal with
- D. put up with
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
No wonder those plants are dying. They …. any water for ages!
- A. didn't have
- B. hadn't
- C. haven't had
- D. haven't
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
Í’m sorry I can’t give you any of the oranges; I have …. left’.
- A. few
- B. little
- C. only a little
- D. a few
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
You had to stand in the corridor all the way? Poor you! I don’t suppose you enjoyed the journey …. ?
- A. don't you
- B. did you
- C. didn't you
- D. don't i
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
Four persons accused of currency ….. are being held by the security agents
- A. traficking
- B. traviking
- C. trafficking
- D. traffiking
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
After the accused was found guilty by the court, his counsel …. before sentence was passed.
- A. begged for mercy
- B. made a plea for mitigation
- C. made anovation
- D. made a plea for litigation
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap:
Jibril found that thieves had entered his house in his absence. He went to the police to report the ….
- A. break out
- B. break up
- C. break in
- D. break into
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
He broke his mallet ostensibly trying to maintain order although he was actually enjoying the commotion.
- A. apparently
- B. carelessly
- C. angerily
- D. accidentally
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
It is advisable to administer the test in the morning when students are fresh
- A. perform
- B. set
- C. undertake
- D. give
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The story is rather hard to believe
- A. incredulous
- B. incredible
- C. superstitious
- D. untenable
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The task was herculean
- A. irregular
- B. related to Hercules
- C. stimulating
- D. demanding
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The accounts clerk was jailed because he cooked the books
- A. set fire to the account books
- B. sold the books in his office to get money for food
- C. falsified the accounts to his advantage
- D. destroyed the accounts books by cooking them