In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
Though a brilliant student, Binta lost her tongue when she was asked to give the vote of thanks at the end of the Governor’s visit to her school.
- A. became dumb
- B. became deaf and dumb
- C. said nothing because she was shy
- D. forgot her native language
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The new religious leader hands out an olives branch.
- A. sues for peace
- B. gives out branches of the olive tree
- C. challenges his opponents to a fight
- D. blesses his congregation
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The speaker took his audience down memory lane before he went to the topic of his lecture
- A. Took his audience on a journey through a street called memory lane
- B. recalled events from the past
- C. told a tale about a place called memory lane
- D. gave an outline of his lecture
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
He likes to call attention to unimportant matters
- A. dubious
- B. incidental
- C. trivial
- D. simple
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The driver, on seeing the traffic warden, was hesitant to start the engine.
- A. slow
- B. unable
- C. anxious
- D. reluctant
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
Everybody respects the team leader.
- A. looks up for
- B. looks up on
- C. looks up to
- D. looks up at
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
Finally, I assured him that i would not go back on my word.
- A. returned to a place
- B. return to certain word when reading
- C. re-use my word
- D. fail to keep my promise
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
She realized that she was up against stiff competition when a new large department store was opened next to her small provision store
- A. next to
- B. standing next
- C. opposed to
- D. faced with
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The pressman said that his interview with the Presidents was off the record.
- A. not written on government record books
- B. not intended for publication
- C. not taped
- D. written elsewhere other than the government records
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
Many candidates now apply to read Law because it is a lucrative profession.
- A. brings plenty of profit
- B. brings high prestige
- C. bring quick money
- D. bring plenty of knowledge
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
This year’s harvest is surplus
- A. enough for need
- B. limitless
- C. more than enough
- D. plenty
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
We will surely buy this idea of introducing an entirely new product
- A. pay for
- B. accept
- C. trade in
- D. barter
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The new educational system took off this school year
- A. went off
- B. continued
- C. began
- D. resumed
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
Many of the workers hired for firing the furnace had themselves fired as a result of the unfortunate accident
- A. got themselves burned accidentally
- B. jumped into the fire themselves
- C. got themselves sacked from their jobs
- D. were sacked from there jobs
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The armed robbers who raided passengers on the Expressway came to grief when they had a shoot out with the police today
- A. came to bad end
- B. became grieved
- C. encountered grief
- D. came to dead end
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
Look at the tell-tale signs of battering on her
- A. confirming looks
- B. suspicious marks
- C. revealing marks
- D. signifying marks
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
‘Watch it! You could be followed said the robber
- A. Look around
- B. Be sober
- C. Be vigilant
- D. Look out
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The preacher has made good his promise to visit some of his converts today
- A. fulfilled
- B. abide to
- C. seen to
- D. accepted
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
His attempts were nipped in the bud
- A. unsuccessful
- B. cut short
- C. frustrated
- D. disqualified
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The beggar’s takings snow-belled every hour.
- A. grew
- B. turned white
- C. grew into a ball
- D. turned into snow
In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word or phrase underlined:
Thompson was a prosecution witness at the court hearing
- A. false
- B. reliable
- C. government
- D. trial