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WAEC SSCE - English Language - 1995 (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.
Femi is very presumptuous quite unlike his late father who was a rather......man
Answer Details
The underlined word in the sentence is "presumptuous," which means behaving in a way that is excessively bold or forward. To find the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning, we need to look for a word that means humble, modest or not assuming. The correct word to fill the gap in the sentence would be "modest," which is the opposite of "presumptuous." Therefore, the correct answer is option D, "modest."