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Vocabulary in Context - 2 (Reading)

Question 1 of 15

Laborious

Directions: Some words in the passage below have been highlighted. Select the best meaning for the corresponding word.

Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery that the firebrand from which the torch may well have developed, could be used for illumination, was probably incidental purpose of preserving a flame.

Lamps too, probably developed by accident. Early man may have had his first  conception of a lamp while watching a twig of fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps, which were made of hollowed stones or sea-shells, have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times
  1. Difficult
  2. Working
  3. Painful
  4. Lengthy

Prize Money

15₹7 Crores
14₹1 Crore
13₹50,00,000
12₹25,00,000
11₹12,50,000
10₹6,40,000
9₹3,20,000
8₹1,60,000
7₹80,000
6₹40,000
5₹20,000
4₹10,000
3₹5,000
2₹2,000
1₹1,000