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Choose the word that is MOST OPPOSITE IN MEANING to the word in capital letters in the sentence: "Silence is sometimes taken as TACIT approval."

  1. implied
  2. official
  3. late
  4. explicit

Answer

D. explicit

Solution

TACIT means "understood without being stated," so its opposite is "explicit."

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