Direction: Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
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ORDAINED
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- requested
- wished
- told
- questioned
- requested
Correct Option: B
If some authority or power ordains something, they decide that it should happen or be in existence.
Ordain (Verb) means order or command; decide in advance. For example,
Fate had ordained that he should die in poverty. It is very clear that, we can substitute word, ordained with wished, in the passage.
