Question

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Read the sentence from Gandhi's autobiography and answer the question that follows.

Betrothal is a preliminary promise on the part of the parents of the boy and the girl to join them in marriage, and it is not inviolable.

What does preliminary mean in this sentence?

a)enduring
b)primary
c)tentative
d)unimportant

Answer 1

the correct answer is C because if you read the passage you can clearly see it

Answer 2

In the definition to tentative the synonym list had preliminary in it. So the answer is C.<span />