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    Question

    Below, a word is given followed by three sentences which consist of that word. Identify the sentence/s which best expresses the meaning of the word. Choose option 5 (None of these) if the word is not suitable in any of these sentences.

    Entail

    A. Child obesity has become an increasingly serious problem inevitably entailing serious health hazards.

    B. Jackson's versions of happy endings often entail a paradisal communion of human and animal.

    C. A dyke was built to entail the floods.

    A Only A Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only C Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Both B and C Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Both A and B Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The word ‘entail’ means ‘to make something necessary, or to involve something’. Sentences A and B are correct. But sentence C is wrong.

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