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WAEC SSCE - English Language - 1996 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - E, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.
We should regard donations as....and not compulsory
Answer Details
The word "compulsory" means required or mandatory, so we need to choose the word that means the opposite of "compulsory" to correctly fill the gap in the sentence. The word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to "compulsory" is "voluntary." Therefore, the correct answer is option C: voluntary. The sentence means that we should view donations as something that is optional, not required or mandatory.