Question
34. What does the root'vac'mean in the word family below? vacancy vacate evacuate vacuous Tick one. to move square empty square to stay square hotels and hostels square
Answer
4.3
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Ffion
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Answer
B
Explanation
The question is asking the semantic root of the lexeme 'vac', which can be seen in each of the words the question presents ('vacancy', 'vacate', 'evacuate', and 'vacuous'). This Language & Literature focused linguistic query prompts learners to match prefabricated words with possible semantics. The correctness of their options is tested here. In this case, because 'vac' symbolises 'empty' in the constituent Latin and has this meaning in laws such as 'vacate' (make empty), 'vacancy' (state of being empty), and 'vacuous' (having a lack of ideas or intelligence, comparable to empty), to appropriately respond to the query, they must select the option 'empty'. The other offerings, while fitting certain uses of the words, don't represent the inherent semantic context of 'vac'.