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Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
A lorry larger than an elephant was stuck on the bridge.
  • A. as large as an elephant
  • B. carring an elephant
  • C. that looked like an elephant
  • D. with elephantiasis
  • E. of enormous proportions
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Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
There is an end - of - session party tonight but Sola hasn't finished her term paper.She's unlikely to come
  • A. I doubt whether she will come
  • B. She will likely come
  • C. It isn't unliklely her to come
  • D. She doesn't like coming to party
  • E. ther is a small possibility that she might come
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Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentence:
Never in the history of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.

  • A. Many people owed much money at the end of the war
  • B. A handful of people saved the lives of a nation
  • C. A few people did a lot of things gratis
  • D. This conflict caused the largest ransome ever demanded
  • E. Very little was owed by anyone to anybody
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Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
While most of our recently elected legislators are living a life of affluence and ostentation the vast majority of those who elected them into office are unhappy
  • A. influence
  • B. pleasure
  • C. poverty
  • D. happiness
  • E. consequence
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Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
It is generally believed that misers are not loved by many
  • A. spendthrifts
  • B. spenders
  • C. hoaders
  • D. savers
  • E. thieves
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