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JAMB 2022 - Question 47

English 2022 JAMB Past Questions - Question 47: The minister was accused of making utterances that could increase rather than anxiety among the citizen­ry.

The words in capital letters have the emphatic stress, choose the op­tion to which the given sentence relates
The minister was accused of making utterances that could increase rather than anxiety among the citizen­ry.
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B:
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Correct Answer

B

Explanation

The appropriate anatomy to the word, ‘increase’ as used in the given sentence is ‘diminish’. Other anton­ymous words are: reduce, mitigate, lessen, suppress,

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