The office memorandum directed personnel to <u>minimise</u> their consumption of office stationery by up to twenty per cent.
Directions: Each of the sentences in the following items has an underlined word, followed by four choices. Select the most appropriate option that is an improvement of the underlined word in the context of the sentence, and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
- A. supervise
- B. surmise
- C. lower
- D. reduce ✓
Correct Answer: D. reduce
Explanation
Reduce means to diminish in amount, which correctly applies to decreasing consumption by a specific quantifiable amount (twenty percent).
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