Multiple choice

The ______ family had nothing to eat, nothing to spend and ______ nothing to wear.

Directions: The sentence below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five sets of words labelled from (1) to (5). Choose the set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

  1. sumptuous; practically

  2. opulent; almost

  3. affluent; implicitly

  4. indigent; virtually

  5. well-off; essentially

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D Correct answer
Explanation

It is obvious that option (4) has to be correct as ‘indigent’ means 'poor'. All the other options are antonymous to poor.

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