Instruction: Choose the word opposite in meaning to the underlined words.

Emeka complained that while his colleagues were elevated he was ….

• A. interdicted
• B. prompted
• C. suspended
• D. downgraded

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.

The president...........his wife and children is leaving for Paris

• A. or
• B. and
• C. with
• D. despite

Antonym: DISMISS

• A. Disorganise
• B. Carriage
• C. Absorb
• D. Calore

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.

.................here, the case would have been settled long ago.

• A. had my mother been
• B. where my mother to be
• C. if my mother were to be
• D. my mother having been

After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.

The first time Paul met Ngozi, her beauty caught his eye. This means that

• A. Ngozi admired Paul
• B. Paul recognized Ngozi
• C. Ngozi attracted Paul
• D. Paul surprised Ngozi

From the words lettered A to E below each of the following sentences, choose the word that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

Charles' concern for Diana isaffected

• A. genuine
• B. serious
• C. pretended
• D. worrisome

In her analysis of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905), scholar Candace Waid observes that the novel depicts the upper classes of New York society as “consumed by the appetite of a soulless ______ an apt assessment given that The House of Mirth is set during the Gilded Age, a period marked by rapid industrialization, economic greed, and widening wealth disparities. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) materialism
• B) materialism
• C) materialism,
• D) materialism

In the question below choose the most appropriate optionopposite in meaning to the word(s) underlined: Science may be a complicated area of learning, but its teaching needs to bedemystified

• A. simplfied
• B. twisted
• C. made difficult
• D. distorted

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • NASA uses rovers, large remote vehicles with wheels, to explore the surface of Mars. • NASA’s rovers can’t explore regions inaccessible to wheeled vehicles. • Rovers are also heavy, making them difficult to land on the planet’s surface. • Microprobes, robotic probes that weigh as little as 50 milligrams, could be deployed virtually anywhere on the surface of Mars. • Microprobes have been proposed as an alternative to rovers. The student wants to explain an advantage of microprobes. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

• A) Despite being heavy, NASA
• B) Microprobes, which weigh as little as 50 milligrams, could explore areas of Mars that are inaccessible to NASA
• C) NASA currently uses its rovers on Mars, but microprobes have been proposed as an alternative.
• D) Though they are different sizes, both microprobes and rovers can be used to explore the surface of Mars.

In the question below choose the optionopposite in meaning to the word Underlined: The man who had been seriously ill wasconvalescing at a sea-side resort

• A. regaining health
• B. deteriorating in health
• C. recuperating
• D. relaxing