Instructions

Answer the following questions based on the information given below.

Question 15

Choose the sentence where the underlined word is used correctly.

Solution

The correct meaning of the word pedestrian is a person who is walking on the roads. It can also be used to mean something commonplace, uninteresting and ordinary. 

Let's look at the options one by one - 

Option A: A story of spies cannot be an ordinary story - as in, it does not occur in ordinary life. Hence, this is incorrect usage.

Option B: Here pedestrian is used as an antonym of difficult which is wrong usage.

Option C: A highway cannot be a pedestrian one. If a road is meant for only walkers then the right word to use is pathway or walkway.

Option D: This correct usage. It is used as an adjective to indicate a very ordinary lecture.


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