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1

Choose the word that has the consonant sound as the one in bracket, from questions below.

A[n]kle

  • A. Tongue
  • B. New
  • C. Pneumatic
  • D. Photosynthesis
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2

Choose the word that has the consonant sound as the one in bracket, from questions below.

Ad[j]ust

  • A. Diary
  • B. judge
  • C. Dynasty
  • D. Anticipate
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3

Choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one in bracket, from questions below

H[ei]r

  • A. Care
  • B. Near
  • C. mere
  • D. weird
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4

Choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one in bracket, from questions below

Neighb[our]

  • A. blood
  • B. standard
  • C. board
  • D. source
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5

Choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one in bracket, from questions below

B[oo]k

  • A. shoe
  • B. group
  • C. blue
  • D. full
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6

Choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one in bracket, from questions below

G[ua]rantee

  • A. plait
  • B. far
  • C. guard
  • D. aunt
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7

CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT IS NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE WORD(S) IN BRACKET, FOR QUESTIONS below.

We must not [foreclose] reconciliation as the purpose of his trip

  • A. exclude
  • B. consider
  • C. underestimate
  • D. forgo
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8

CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT IS NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE WORD(S) IN BRACKET, FOR QUESTIONS below.

Her findings [exploded] widely held beliefs about learning

  • A. challenged
  • B. debunked
  • C. projected
  • D. confirmed
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9

CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT IS NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE WORD(S) IN BRACKET, FOR QUESTIONS below.

These policies have been [espoused] by the ruling party

  • A. condemned
  • B. rejected
  • C. supported
  • D. outlined
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10

CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT IS NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE WORD(S) IN BRACKET, FOR QUESTIONS below.

The student’s union leader delivered his speech [extempore]

  • A. out-of-hand
  • B. accurately
  • C. off the cuff
  • D. courageously
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11

CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT IS NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE WORD(S) IN BRACKET, FOR QUESTIONS below.

Every human being is [vulnerable] to communicable disease

  • A. liable
  • B. lifted
  • C. immune
  • D. closed
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12

Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

The sick man is now [ambulatory]

  • A. recovering gradually
  • B. walking
  • C. sound in health
  • D. immobile
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13

Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

The [prodigious] building was razed to the carpet level yesterday

  • A. ramshackle
  • B. modern
  • C. colossal
  • D. mini-sized
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14

Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

When it comes to playing the piano, I am a complete [ignoramus]

  • A. Idiot
  • B. virtuoso
  • C. novice
  • D. nonentity
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15

Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

The jollof rice served at the wedding reception was [malodorous]

  • A. small but palatable
  • B. unpalatably big
  • C. pleasant
  • D. stale and smelly
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16

Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

Mr Santos Laliga is a [dipsomaniac]

  • A. teetotaler
  • B. a drunkard
  • C. an hater of women
  • D. a promiscuous man
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17

Choose the correct interpretations of the statement given, for questions below

All the Nigerian footballers have itchy feet

  • A. the footballers have insured feet
  • B. the footballers use their feet to steer
  • C. the footballers like to travel
  • D. the footballers like play skillfully
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18

Choose the correct interpretations of the statement given, for questions below

America is the Mecca of the world

  • A. America is the commercial garden of the world
  • B. America is a beautiful place in the world
  • C. America is a place where people like to visit
  • D. America accepts assorted races throughout the world
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19

Choose the correct interpretations of the statement given, for questions below

I know my onions

  • A. I know my job very well
  • B. I know my rights
  • C. I am clever because of experience
  • D. I am aware of my position
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20

The prisoner finally …….. that he drank to …….. on the night he committed the murder

  • A. acceded/access
  • B. conceded/excess
  • C. exceeded/extreme
  • D. eluded/escape
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21

Either Buntu or you …….. to go

  • A. was
  • B. are
  • C. has
  • D. is
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