Question
Each sentence has one blank. Choose the most
appropriate word to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. The regulator’s intervention was intended to ______ excessive risk-taking in the financial sector.Solution
“Restrain” correctly conveys limiting or controlling risky behaviour. • Restrain – to control or limit something. • Legitimise – to make something lawful or acceptable. • Amplify – to increase the intensity or magnitude of something. • Encourage – to promote or support an activity. • Justify – to show something to be reasonable or acceptable.
Keep body and soul together
Hear it on the grapevine
Get your act together
A Slap on the Wrist
Blood Is Thicker Than Water
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...Miss the boat
In these questions, each of the following is followed by four meanings. Choose the correct option which best conveys the meaning of the idiom
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Rina’s house is at a stone’s throw from the school.
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