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Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence. Fortuitously, a guest visited our house. - English

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Question

Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.

Fortuitously, a guest visited our house.

Options

  • luckily

  • peacefully

  • unfortunately

  • happily

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Solution

unfortunately

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Chapter 5.1: The Status of Tamil as a Classical Language - Vocabulary [Page 149]

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Chapter 5.1 The Status of Tamil as a Classical Language
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