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Direction: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly make our attitudes completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word or of an ambiguous word may create an enemy where we have hoped to win a friend. Again, different classes of people use different vocabularies and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as showing pride; unwillingly we may use a word which bears a different meaning to our listeners from what it does to men of our own class. Thus, speech is not a gift to use lightly without thought but one which demands careful handling. Only a fool will express himself alike to all.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
slip of the tongue : unintentional/careless use of words
ambiguous : having different meanings

  1. A slip of the tongue means
    1. biting the tongue while speaking.
    2. telling lies to defend oneself.
    3. using words carelessly.
    4. incurring loss of profit in hasty bargain.
Correct Option: C

using words carelessly



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