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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:
My friend will hate his uncle forever because he left him in the lurch in his hour of need
  • A. Abandoned him
  • B. punished him
  • C. disrespect him
  • D. disinherited him
  • E. despised him
View Answer & Discuss (5) JAMB 1982
357
Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
When you go to a foreign country to study, you will discover that life is not always a bed of roses.
  • A. as pleasant as one thought
  • B. a bed without roses
  • C. an unmitegated disappointment
  • D. as expected
  • E. uncomfortable
View Answer & Discuss (5) JAMB 1982
358
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
View Answer & Discuss (3) JAMB 1982
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359
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
View Answer & Discuss (7) JAMB 1982
360

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
View Answer & Discuss (6) JAMB 1982
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