Question
Seethe I. Police officers are trying to seethe
the timescale of events leading up to the murder. II. They stand quietly, but secretly they seethe with their anger. III. The grey ocean seethed beneath them. Directions : 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
In I, the word ‘seethe’ is inappropriate. In II, it means ‘to feel very angry but to be unable or unwilling to express it clearly’. In III, it means ‘to move around very strongly or suddenly or to boil’.
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