Direction: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an bold word followed by four words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response
Question: Public service is not merely something that occupies the hours you are doing it, but invades all your life and experience and affects them in one way or the other.
- Apreserves
- Bdemolishes
- Ccovers
- Dspoils
Explanation
To invade is to enter and take over, as an army invades a country; used figuratively, “invades all your life” means it spreads into and takes over every part of your experience. Covers — to extend over the whole of something — is the nearest in meaning. Preserves means to keep safe, demolishes means to destroy completely, and spoils means to ruin; none fits the idea of spreading through one’s whole life.