Multiple choice

Directions: Find the statement where the given word hasn’t been used correctly.

REVERBERATE

  1. Footsteps reverberate through the empty hall.

  2. Our ears rang with the reverberation of the explosion.

  3. The shock of the bank collapse reverberated in financial circles.

  4. Newspapers are full of the reverberations of the police probe.

  5. The booming guns reverberated through the precincts.
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E Correct answer
Explanation

‘Reverberate’ as used in options (1) and (2) is correct meaning to echo or sound again and again. In options (3) and (4) is also correct meaning repercussions. There is no such meaning of ‘reverberation’ as in option (5), therefore marking it incorrect as the answer. Instead the sentence should read: ‘Sound of the booming guns reverberated through the precincts’.

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