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rochika_agrawal
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Need help with Synonyms question

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Please choose one word from each bracket which are closest in meaning:

(recent latter former)
(yesterday today tomorrow)


The answer is: Recent and Yesterday

Can anybody explain why it is not former and yesterday?
Okanagan
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"Recent" has more implication of proximity to the current moment in time than "former" does. Recent means "not long ago" whereas "former" means "some time in the past".
Sally-Anne
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Re: Need help with Synonyms question

Post by Sally-Anne »

Hi rochika

All the questions you are asking about come from GL Assessment Pack 2. They were prepared a little hurriedly for commercial reasons, and they are not as good as Pack 1. Don't put too much store by them. Paper 7 is pretty well OK, and Paper 8 isn't bad, although it has 4 Type Z questions on it, which is not typical. (Paper 5 had 4 of those as well.)

Sally-Anne
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