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Dileep Madhu

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· 1 Months ago

Wrong answer (Question:320824.2)

Why not (B)?

Question:

DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to the given question out of the four alternatives.


Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may very well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

Lamps, too, probably developed by accident, Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from a roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps, which were made of hollowed stones or sea shells, have persisted in identical, form up to quite recent times.

By ‘primary’ the author means?

Options:
A)

primitive

B)

fundamental

C)

elemental

D)

essential

Solution:

It has been clearly mentioned in the passage that the “primary” or “main” purpose was cooking and warmth. As per Thesaurus.com, one of the synonyms of primary is “essential”. 


So, option D is correct.

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