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Choose the word that is CLOSEST IN MEANING to the word in capital letters in the sentence: "The once-busy textile industry in the town is now MORIBUND."

  1. burgeoning
  2. dying
  3. mordant
  4. robust

Answer

B. dying

Solution

MORIBUND means "at the point of death; in terminal decline," so the closest in meaning is "dying."

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