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How should a candidate handle a comprehension question that asks for the meaning of a word "as used in the passage"?
Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Answer
The answer should give the sense the word carries in that particular sentence, not its commonest dictionary meaning, and should be a word or phrase that could replace it without changing the sense. Reading the sentence again with the substitution in place is the quickest check.
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Explanation
A word such as "arrested" may mean "stopped" in one passage and "detained" in another.
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