Multiple choice

Directions- In this Section you find a number of sentences, parts of which are bold. You may also find only a group of words, which is bold. For each bold part, four words/phrases are listed below. Choose the word/phrases nearest in meaning to the bold part.

The airport authorities have seized a large consignment of drugs.

  1. Destroyed

  2. Confiscate

  3. Grasped

  4. Stopped

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B Correct answer
Explanation

To 'seize' something in this context means to take legal possession of it, usually by an authority. 'Confiscate' is the appropriate synonym, although the option lacks the past participle ending '-d' to match the tense perfectly.

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