Question
Subsume (i) To subsume malnutrition, we grow
maize, beans, soya beans, sweet potatoes, cassava, pumpkins and many others. (ii) Charitable organisations and welfare societies should take the initiative to subsume begging. (iii) The actions of animal life depend upon and subsume the laws of organic matter. In each of the following questions, a word has been used in sentences in THREE different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentences in which the usage of the word is CORRECT or APPROPRIATE.Solution
The word ‘subsume’ means ‘to include something or someone as part of a larger group’. Only in iii, the word is correctly used.
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