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Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
The undesirable elements who perpetuate these vices are never detected?
Aaggravate
Boverlook
Cdiscontinue
Dencourage
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Question 3212
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
Adama's father simply condoned her bad habits instead of punishing her appropriately?
Aopposed
Bblamed
Caccepted
Dforbade
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Question 3213
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
He urged other progressives in the country to join forces with his association.
Aradicals
Bconservatives
Cpessimists
Dactivists
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Question 3214
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
Measures were taken to authenticate the number of the booklets received?
Areaffirm
Bdiscredit
Cdiscountenance
Dcount
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Question 3215
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
My friend was reduced to beggary by various ill-advised business deals?
Aaffluence
Bpenury
Cinfleuence
Dpoverty
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Question 3216
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
If you are really keen on immediate results, you just have to adopt his pragmatic approach?
Apractical
Bunrealistic
Copportunistic
Dsensible
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Question 3217
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
His intention was not actually to punish the villagers, and in any case he is now making moves to pacify them?
Aplacate
Bridicule
Cappease
Dannoy
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Question 3218
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
You can use lethal means if necessary to stop dangerous characters from molesting innocent citizens?
Afatal
Bcruel
Charmless
Dsoft
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Question 3219
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
I was advised to stay away from cities that are ravaged by crime?
Aspoilt by
Bfree from
Csuffering from
Dhaven of
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Question 3220
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
We admire the minister's passionate and dynamic characteristics.
Acruel and passive
Bkind and forceful
Cpassive and charmless
Dcharmless and cruel
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Question 3221
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
Since mortality is the lot of man, argued the preacher, we must all accept death with equanimity.
Aconcern
Buncertainty
Cserenity
Danxiety
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Question 3222
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
Bala was put off by Lanre's coquettish behaviour towards him?
Aunfriendly advances
Binviting and friendly advances
Cquarrelsome attitude
Dinteresting attitude
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Question 3223
jamb1997
Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
He gave a painstaking account of his encounter with the ghost of his father?
Asordid
Bfearful
Chalf-hearted
Dtender-hearted
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Question 3224
jamb1997
Bassey is as hard as nails?
ABassey is very strong
BBassey is very brave
CBassey is determined
DBassey is unsympathetic
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Question 3225
jamb1997
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
Only two ministers survived the recent cabinet reshuffle?
AIn the recent changes in government, only two ministers were sacked
BIn the recent changes in government, all but two ministers remained alive
CIn recent changes in government, all but two ministers retained their posts
DIn recent changes in government, all but two ministers were sacked
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Question 3226
jamb1997
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
The conference is biennial?
AThe conference is held twice every year
BThe conference is held twice in two years
CThe conference is held once every other year
DThe conference lasts for two years
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Question 3227
jamb1997
Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.
The stadium had a capacity crowd in spite of the weather?
AThe weather favoured the crowd at the stadium
BThe crowd defied the weather to fill the stadium
CThe stadium was not filled because of the weather
DThe crowd loved the weather at the stadium
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Question 3228
waec1996
In question numbered 100 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.
Read the passage below
In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the below each passage, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
If the advantages of international trade and division of labour are as strong and -76- as economists assert, the student of international trade may well be puzzled by the -77- to which governments impose -78- on their -79- trade. The actions of governments, however, are not swayed entirely by economic -80- When a country aims at economic self-sufficiency; the reasons are generally -81-. For example, a country may wish to -82- its farming industry in order to be able to feed itself in time of war, or it may try to build an iron and -83- industry as part of an -84- programme.
If a conference is called to consider a reduction of -85-, a country that had imposed no restrictions on imports would find itself at a -86-, since it would have no -87- to offer.
I made a visit to the University Teaching Hospital the other day. At the -88- Department where accidents -89- are treated, the doctors were battling to save the life of a man who had just been knocked down in a road accident. They -90- the injured man thoroughly with the aid of several -91- instruments such as the -92- used in measuring body temperature and the -93- used in listening to the sound of the heart and the lungs. By using -94-, several internal parts of the patient's body were photographed -95- and pain-killing injections were given. His bleeding was stopped. The nurses. -96- his wounds and he was carried on a -97- to the special care -98- where those under -99- care are kept. The doctor asked the nurses to keep the patient under close -100-
Arestriction
Bdiagnosis
Cobservation
Dinspection
Econfinement
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Question 3229
waec1996
In question numbered 99 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.
Read the passage below
In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the below each passage, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
If the advantages of international trade and division of labour are as strong and -76- as economists assert, the student of international trade may well be puzzled by the -77- to which governments impose -78- on their -79- trade. The actions of governments, however, are not swayed entirely by economic -80- When a country aims at economic self-sufficiency; the reasons are generally -81-. For example, a country may wish to -82- its farming industry in order to be able to feed itself in time of war, or it may try to build an iron and -83- industry as part of an -84- programme.
If a conference is called to consider a reduction of -85-, a country that had imposed no restrictions on imports would find itself at a -86-, since it would have no -87- to offer.
I made a visit to the University Teaching Hospital the other day. At the -88- Department where accidents -89- are treated, the doctors were battling to save the life of a man who had just been knocked down in a road accident. They -90- the injured man thoroughly with the aid of several -91- instruments such as the -92- used in measuring body temperature and the -93- used in listening to the sound of the heart and the lungs. By using -94-, several internal parts of the patient's body were photographed -95- and pain-killing injections were given. His bleeding was stopped. The nurses. -96- his wounds and he was carried on a -97- to the special care -98- where those under -99- care are kept. The doctor asked the nurses to keep the patient under close -100-
Acritical
Bfatal
Cpotent
Dserious
Eintensive
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Question 3230
waec1996
In question numbered 98 above, choose the best option from letters A - E that best completes the gap.
Read the passage below
In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the below each passage, five choices are offered in columns lettered A to E. For each question choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passage.
If the advantages of international trade and division of labour are as strong and -76- as economists assert, the student of international trade may well be puzzled by the -77- to which governments impose -78- on their -79- trade. The actions of governments, however, are not swayed entirely by economic -80- When a country aims at economic self-sufficiency; the reasons are generally -81-. For example, a country may wish to -82- its farming industry in order to be able to feed itself in time of war, or it may try to build an iron and -83- industry as part of an -84- programme.
If a conference is called to consider a reduction of -85-, a country that had imposed no restrictions on imports would find itself at a -86-, since it would have no -87- to offer.
I made a visit to the University Teaching Hospital the other day. At the -88- Department where accidents -89- are treated, the doctors were battling to save the life of a man who had just been knocked down in a road accident. They -90- the injured man thoroughly with the aid of several -91- instruments such as the -92- used in measuring body temperature and the -93- used in listening to the sound of the heart and the lungs. By using -94-, several internal parts of the patient's body were photographed -95- and pain-killing injections were given. His bleeding was stopped. The nurses. -96- his wounds and he was carried on a -97- to the special care -98- where those under -99- care are kept. The doctor asked the nurses to keep the patient under close -100-
