Question

Choose the word closest in meaning to the underlined word.

Raymond discovered several errors on his test.

• A. answers
• B. corrections
• C. mistakes
• D. numbers

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

mistakes

The underlined word means 'A wrong action taken due to bad judgement'. Thus, the answer must have the same meaning.

Option C is correct. 'Mistake' has the same meaning as the required one and thus, it is the correct answer.

Options A, B and D are incorrect. They do not have the required meaning.

Option A means 'a reply that is given to a question'.

Option B means 'the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake'.

Option D means 'symbols used to represent digits'.