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Choose the options where the underlined words are used correctly.

(A) To cease, to strive not, is my new motto.

(B) A popular phrase exhorts us to be active and seize the day!

(C) I was so angry, I wanted to cease him by his collar.

(D) He wanted to seize the opportunity at the earliest.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 1

'Cease' means to stop; 'seize' means to grab or take hold of. (A) uses cease correctly (to stop striving). (B) 'seize the day' is the correct idiom. (D) 'seize the opportunity' is correct. (C) is wrong: grabbing someone by the collar requires 'seize', not 'cease'. Hence (A), (B) and (D) only.

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