Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?

Although the officer wanted a ..... reported on the matter, he got ....... account?

  • A truthful / an uninteresting
  • B factual / an unpleasant
  • C genuine / a ridiculous
  • D painstaking / a half-hearted
jamb 1999english-language

The correct answer is C. genuine / a ridiculous

genuine means when something is said to be; authentic.

To be ridiculous is to be something which is highly absurd or inferior, sometimes deliberately so to make people laugh or get their attention, and sometimes unintendedly so as to be considered laughable.

in this regard, the officer wanted a genuine (authentic) report of events, but what he got was rather luaghable (unreasonable, odd, meaningless)

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