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CATAPULTS (i) The publicity catapulted  her CD to the top of the charts. (ii) Several States have laws against the use of such plastics but they aren’t enforced, largely due to the costs of catapult and ensuring that these waste plastics are recycled at proper facilities. (iii) Buyers of an iPhone, iPad or Mac will get a free year of streaming TV, potentially drawing hundreds of millions of viewers to the service. That catapult s the new service into a rarified group of companies
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
Only option ‘3’ is correct here. Catapult means hurl or launch (something) with or as if with a catapult (a forked stick with an elastic band fastened to the two prongs, used by children for shooting small stones)
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