have you not yet see your Jamb result? see this

From our Stat, we Learn that all The Jamb Candidates that do exam on the 12th of this month which is thursday have not been able to check their result and did not receive any message from Jamb so far!

We try Talking to Jamb on this but that have keep mute to our mails

If you also fall victim of this Kindly drop a comment now as we will all write to them together.

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What You Need To Do After JAMB RESULT Is Out-JAMB 2015

Hello Jambites, you definitely have to know that there is a life after Jamb and your released result whether you passed in flying colours or not. As you all know that your pre-requisite into the University in Nigeria is the Joint Admission Matriculation Examination, hence the need for the examination.

THE Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) 2015/2016 Examination has been scheduled to commence on March 9, 2015 and ends on March 21, 2015. While some people have written the examination and seen the result, others are still preparing for theirs.

Our focus in this publication is to help students on what to do and what not after they have seen their 2015 result.

Education here in Nigeria is extremely crucial and as a result students at all cost try everything within their capacity and capability to get into school either due to peer pressure or pressure from parents, it’s very important to understand that you have to do things right in other to secure your place in the merit list of universities. You don’t want to wait until next year.

After your UTME, the next step is the examination known as the Post-UTME. Now, this is where you have to get it all right if your score in JAMB is not as high as expected. Annually, the Joint Admission And Matriculation Board releases the cut-off mark for getting into the Universities and it is mostly placed around the 180 mark. Although most universities obey this, it has become a custom for top most universities in Nigeria to peg theirs around 200.

Hence, the need to get way up above the 200 mark so as to make you one step into the university. For your POST-UTME, you have to find out what the cut-off mark for your chosen school is. Most of you whose school is outside their state have to either make calls or visit these schools to know what is going on as regards the POST-UTME.

Although universities have online platforms where they update prospective students with information as regards the date of the upcoming examination, it is just very expedient that you as a student should visit the school in question to get first-hand information as regards whatever you need to know.

Moreover, especially the students that have to travel miles, to other states to write the POST-UTME exams, you should visit your school few weeks before the exam to get acquainted with the school and it’s environs. Sometimes, as it were in the case of my days, you have to stay over in the school after your examination (on the day you write it) as you might be slated for morning or noon or a lil bit into evening depending on the amount of students writing the particular course or examination whatsoever.

Hence, the idea of visiting the school is to try and make friends with a trustworthy individual that might help you with accommodation to cover your stay for the few days you’ll be staying or till the next day after you are done with your examination and can’t travel back to your home or destination ( where you came from). You are saving yourself so much money that you’d have spent on accommodation for the few days.

Also, it’s a very rich experience to get a view of the school you want to get into. Not only will you feel fulfilled from the sights and scenarios of a university, you’d definitely be updated as to how and what the university life is all about, you’ll be inspired to want to do more in terms of studying smarter and harder for the exams in question, the one you are preparing for.

In addition, sought for POST-UTME past questions. Questions don’t fall from heaven, it is recreated out of the already had questions. Even some of the POST-UTME questions are gotten from the JAMB examination questions. Try every best possible to work on questions you find, even if it requires you to register in a tutorial center. To those who had few scores above 200, you need to buckle up for your POST-UTME especially as it is a decider.

These tutorial centres are updated and vast as regards POST-UTME hence the need to get yourself into a well grounded one. Not only will you be taught what to do and what not, they’ll provide you with ideas as to how to write the exam. This exam is a little bit different from the JAMB and requires a little bit more of intelligence and smartness. JAMB is the mile, POST-UTME is the extra-mile.

Also, make sure you have every print-outs you are supposed to have if possible a week before your examination. This tactic keep your mind at rest and help your concentrate on other related issues. And make sure you have them kept in a safe enclosure after multiple photocopies have been made.

God forbid, in case of an unexpected circumstance where you lose the printout, your already made photocopy perhaps will save the day.

Before the D-day of your POST-UTME exams, you have to check and uncheck. Put things that are needed to be in place, and check for things that you are missing. Make sure the materials you need for your movement and examination is in place.

On the day of your exam, say a word of prayer and believe (although it is advised to cultivate this habit all the time), dress properly, be of good behaviour, have your writing materials and POST-UTME printouts with you only. DO NOT carry a bag as you wouldn’t be allowed into the examination premises with it. It’s either you drop it somewhere of which the security is unsafe or something else. You do not want to lose your belongings due to ignorance.

Take the aforementioned advice and publication into consideration and be sure to have a fabulous result, as well as a place in your chosen university! Have a great and fulfilling career.

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Are You An Educated Person? Must Read for All

Over the years, Education has been prioritized as a requirement for everyone to live up to expectation in Life, especially in Africa. The National policy on Education which was modified right from 1977, 1981 up till 2004 respectively was based on the advocacy of education for everyone irresepective of one's tribe or financial status.


More so, Education is the best tool to fight poverty, slavery, corruption and others and it is considered a ''Best Legacy,''(We all know that).


However, I have closely monitored the implications of Education to people, especially Nigerian parents who are so passionate about sending their children to school inorder to acquire knowledge and to standout in any field they find themselves.


Sadly, some people leave home for school to acquire education, but as soon as they get to school they ignore the real education and rather opt for literacy skills, these set of people I am refering to don't read to make a difference but to pass their examinations.


Before I continue, I would like to give you the definition of 'Education' as defined by Dictionary before, which has got many people confused and the new definition of 'Education' which is more comprehensive.

Recently, According to Dictionary.com.

Education is the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.


Latest definition of Education according to Dictionary.com:
Education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgement.


Hope you can dish out the difference, the formal one deals with the acquisition of basic instruction while the new one deals with the sense of reasoning and ability to make non-sentimental judgements.


Interestingly, some people who are of myopic sense of reasoning refer to some literate persons as educated not knowing that all that they know is to just read and write.


If your focus of going to school is to acquire your good grades by hook or crook so as to get good job, definitely, you are a literate not an educated person. Literacy is ability to read and write and if your sense of reasoning is even lower than that of people who sells pepper on the street, you are still a literate.


Education of today deals with superior thinking, superior behaviors with intellectual power.


And let me tell you this, education is like smoke, you can't hide it, you do not need to tell people that you are educated before they know; it is your superior thinking, your intellectual quotient and your behaviour that will dictate your educational status, maybeyou are educated or not. Education deals with broad knowledge, which means we don't have to limit ourselves, in one profession. If you are superb at arts, you have to do so at science and as well in other professions.


You may have degrees like thermometer or attend the best school in the world and if you still act like a social misfit, the real education is not in you.


Intriguingly, I will let you know how you can differentiate between an educated person and literate person.


Dear friend, an educated person will never utter vulgar words or share explicit contents on social media person because educated persons has been taught in school not to intrude on another persons privacy.


An educated person will never throw trash from his/her car to the street because everyone has been taught not to invade the environment with detrimental and hazardous particles.


An educated person will not empty his/her garbage in drainage/river because they are been taught that it could cause various diseases in Biology and Agricultural science.


An educated person will not see failure in a course/subject as the end of his/her life but he/she will see it as an invitation for him/her to calm down and look for what went wrong because he/she has been taught that ''For every stagnation or retrogression, there is something behind it, which has to be discovered''


An educated person will not write to people on internet with cyber language(abbreviation form), like ''u'' for ''you'', ''hapi'' for ''happy'', ''gud'' for ''good'' because he knows he/she can never write an examination or an application letter like that.

It goes on, but let me stop there.

It's high time we stood up to learn! This dramatic failure has to be stopped. Education is not just all about going to lecture rooms, attending lectures here and there and getting home without going through what we have learnt. A good student will not read to pass, because you will quickly forget what you read to pass immediately the time-table has been scheduled. But what you read over and over make you a special one.


Read to make a difference, if you keep reading idiosyncrasily, without considerring when examination will take place you will surely make a difference.


It is expected of every educated person to have a superior sense of reasoning to that of people who are on the street. The way you see things, they way you dress, the way way to talk and the way you make judgement has to be positively different and academically sound.


Dear friend, as you pass out from school and I am sure you have acquired a knowledge in school, you don't have to regurgitate it when you get to your place of work. A well educated person will put what he/she has learnt into practise.


Go for real education today, don't go to school because you will be able to read and write so that you can communicate with people or just to get a job as quick as possible. Go to school because of broad knowledge. That's why many people are psychologically and emotionally disturbed today, they go to school, neglecting the real education(knowledge) and thereby going for litracy skills and their visions is to get a job after graduating from school. And if they find it difficult to get a job they will say Nigeria is a bad country. See, if you go for real education you will have the autonomy to start a business on your own which could eradicate unemployment in Nigeria.

No wonder we have a President with PhD who cannot fight curruption and insurgency.

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Reasons Why You Did Not See Your 2015 JAMB Result And Solution To It

Please we sincerely apologize to students who are yet to see there result right from the day one they sat down for their exams.

We therefore wish to compile the possible cause why most students did not recieve their score 2hours after exam as jamb promised its students.

Below are some of the possible scores!!!

1. Failure To Provide Your Correct Phone Number Either In Your Slip Or In Your Rough Booklet: Providing JAMB With your correct number in your exam slip, or rough booklet which would be submitted later would aid the officials into sending your scores quicky to you after the system finished marking, but if the phone number you provided got lost before or after your exam the only remedy to that is to directly check your result online by clicking here 

2. Late Comers: According to the officials that we asked they probably told us that late comers exam would be submitted to jamb based under the latecomers file, which might lead to jamb punishing such offenders by delaying their results but which will be later released to them in an unknown date

3. Exam Malpractice Culprits: Please this is one of the major thing that might have hinder you from seeing your result, According to our jamb agent he told us that once a strict invigilator caught a student with any object which is contrary to their warning, such student Reg no, would be secretly marked under malpractice without the students notice and forwarded to JAMB. You as a student if caught might plead with the authority there some might accept you to continue writing but without knowing that he/she have already noted your Reg no, and such might be a disaster to your result.

We advise students even if you were given answers before exam, summarise it or cram it and enter your hall without it, or if you are caught say goodbye to your result after writting.

4. Failure To Submit: We all can recall back then when the exam have not started, jamb officially told us that when a student failed to submit his or her exam that the computer automatically do so, but reverse is the case, as most system or computer developes fault even before the students are able to finish their exam.

Please if you know that your computer developed a fault before you finished your exam which made you not to submit your exam, am sorry to tell you that such computer automatically failed to submit your result, your invigilator might have told you to forget it that your result have been submitted, that is a lie, the system failed to do so.

5. Network Issue: Your network provider might also be one of the hinderance why you havent seen your score, a close look at the network providers pinpoints that most Networks do not deliver bulk sms to their client, an e.g of the mobile network include GLONIGERIA, If  you know you use a glo line  and havent seen your result note that your network might also have seized your result from delivering to your lines.

Now apart from all these listed problems, there are also possible remedies to your result if your case was not mentioned above

According to an official statement recently made by JAMB Registrar Prof. Dibu Ojerinde as reported by Nigerian Bulletin, candidates who have not seen their result via text message and or on the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s official website should hold on for about four (4) days from the date of their computer based test.

The Registrar explained that although JAMB had promised to bring out all results within two hours of the examination, only a summary of the result/performance is expected to be made available a such, while the real result/details come out later in four days.

In his statement, “The idea of the CBT is that after 30 minutes of the examination and the candidate leaves the examination hall, a graphical result of the test will be sent to the candidate’s mobile phone number, while the specific scores will be released within the period of four days.”

This means therefore that candidates whose results have not been sent to him/her through SMS will have to hold on. We will attempt to give an idea of when to re-check your result online below.

March 11th Batch – Recheck on 14th March

March 12th Batch – Recheck on 15th March

March 13th Batch – Recheck on 16th March

March 14th Batch – Recheck on 17th March

March 15th Batch – Recheck on 18th March

March 16th Batch – Recheck on 19th March

March 17th Batch – Recheck on 20th March

March 18th Batch – Recheck on 21st March

March 19th Batch – Recheck on 22nd March

March 20th Batch – Recheck on 23rd March

March 21st  Batch – Recheck on 24th March

You may check now following this link to know if your own is out.

It is therefore a bit obvious that all JAMB 2015 CBT results are expected to be out on or before March 24th. Candidates who have written but no result yet should hold on and recheck their result within the timeline we have given (as suggestion) above. We hold this helps!

NOTE: FOR NOW THE 2015 JAMB RESULT CHECKING PORTAL HAVE NOT BEEN UPDATED YET BOOKMARK THIS PAGE TO BE ALERTED WHEN THE PORAL IS BEEN UPDATED!!!

 

FOR ANY INFO DO NOT HESISTATE TO CONTACT US USING THE CONTACT US PAGE ABOVE THE WEBSITE.

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Important Tips That Can Help You Before You Enter Your UTME Hall

1. Arrive On Time: Make yourself available in the examination hall such that you are found wanting in NOTHING. Stand to be checked-in and assure that you correctly thumbprint (those who did it wrongly yesterday are yet to see their results, so better be careful than hurry!). After biometric adhere to instructions by the invigilator and don’t forget that arriving on time gives you access to a GOOD COMPUTER. Make yourself comfortable and expect the BEST.

2. Don’t Be Implicated: Distractions are sure way to perform poorly in every examination. Ideas from the most difficult public exam in the world revealed that those who are focused and concentrated often pass better than others. So look away from anyone or person or persons that bring distraction. After the exam you can meet outside!

3. Pace Yourself: The JAMB CBT gives you 3 hrs to finish 250 questions – that’s no child’s play!. When asked to write a timed like UTME, most writers find it useful to do some planning before they start writing and to do a final check of the work when it is finished. It is unlikely that you will have time to do all the planning but you can take a general look on the questions first to spot where to start from. Mind your time and then make sure you finish before time is up. If it’s about time and you have some answers left, quickly select any options – who knows, you might be lucky.

 4. Be Careful With MATHS! Most of those who wrote Mathematics yesterday complained that it delayed them. While we are not saying you should avoid maths, we suggest you do subjects you know better first, then come back to maths with some smartness. Apply your maths wits and deal with it once and for all. Remember, you should never repeat JAMB again!

5. A Day Practice Can Make A Difference: Don’t assume there is no more time to study. Even though at first your were reluctant to help yourself, this is no time for regrets!

Source: https://www.students.com.ng/utme-2015-5-tips-to-deal-with-jamb-cbt-today/

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Steps On How To Check Your 2015 JAMB CBT Result Online

We can now confirm that the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially released the results of the 2015 Computer Based Test (CBT) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which commenced Tuesday, March 10th, 2015.

The result is sent to candidates via SMS at the end of the day’s exam. JAMB candidates who provided correct phone numbers during registration will get their results.
If you are yet to receive your result and you entered a correct phone number during registration, relax! the result will be sent to you in no distant time as JAMB is releasing the results in batches.
The results has also been uploaded online on the Jamb portal.

Steps On How To Check Your 2015 JAMB CBT Result Online
Follow the the link below to check the 2015 Jamb Utme result;
http://www.jamb.org.ng/Unifiedtme/
When it opens click on check result, input your JAMB REG No And Click Enter.

You result will come up

Goodluck To All STUDENTS!!!

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What's your Experience on Today Jamb Exam

The much expected 2015 UTME has finally begun. For many candidates this would be their first experience of UTME.

And being the first time JAMB will be using only CBT Mode, many candidates are likely to leave the exam hall with tales of how it all went down.

Pls drop your Comment on today Jamb in ur own view..

Good or Bad??

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Summary Of The Book "Women Of Owu By Femi Osofisan" (JAMB RECOMMENDED LITRATURE DRAMA)

About the Text Women of Owu
Writer Femi Osofisan
Publisher University Press Plc
Year of Publication 2006, 2008, 2009
Genre Tragedy
This play was inspired by the reading of Euripides The Trojan Women during the period of Iraqi war

About this author

Femi Osofisan studied in Ibadan, Dakar and Paris and taught theatre and comparative literature at the University of Ibadan for 34 years, a post from which he recently retired.
Osofisan’s professional experience is manifold—he is an award-winning poet, writer, actor, company director, journalist and scholar. But it is as playwright that he established his reputation, having written and produced over fifty plays, roughly half of which have been published.
Among these are a series of plays which speak of Osofisan’s long-standing interest in reinterpreting European works in the context of African—specifically, Yoruba—traditions and customs. He approaches his continuous search for a viable modern written theatre that would still be authentically African not only in terms of shared thematic concerns but, more importantly, with a view to form and technique.
He has worked on several canonical texts—including Shakespeare, Chekov, Gogol, Brecht, Feydeau, Frisch, and Sophocles—and discussed in his essays the consequences of this interweaving of cultures aimed at producing a new synthesis. What comes out of the commingling of Soyinka and Brecht or Grotowski, Clark and Ogunde with Barrault, Rotimi with Mnouchekine and so on, particularly against the backdrop of our traditional performance aesthetics? How can all these elements be pressed into the service of a ‘committed theatre’ in the age of globalized neo-colonialism and increasingly globalized terrorism on the one hand and of ‘Nollywood’ and proliferating Pentecostal movements on the other?
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WOMEN OF OWU at a Glance

WOMEN OF OWU re-enacts the bitter and gory historical experiences of the people of the then Owu Kingdom which happened sometimes around 1821. What is shown in this play is the aftermath experiences of war, the defeat and the accompanied sorrow and pangs of the survivors whole are women of nobility and beauty.


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Characters
ANLUGBUA Former Owu war leader, son of Oba Asunkungbade, ancestral founder of Owu Ipole, now deified as Orisa.
LAWUMI Mother of Oba Asunkungbade, now also deified.
ERELU AFIN Wife of Oba Akinjobi, the reigning Olowu of Owu Iponle.
GESINDE Ijebu soldier, herald and staff officer of the Allied Army.
ORISAYE Half-mad daughter of Erelu, votary of the god Obatala.
ADUMAADAN Widow of Lisabi, son of Erelu.
OKUNADE The MAYE, Ife war leader, General of the Allied Forces.
IYUNLOYE Erring wife of the Maye.
CHORUS LEADER
CHORUS OF OWU WOMEN
SOLDIERS
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Scene by Scene Summary
Scene 1
The play opens with the sad event of the war that left the Owu City in complete ruin.
Two women sent to fetch water met with an old man who asked to know what city it is that lies in utter ruins, shouldering. The women in response gave the whole account of the devastating war and the brutality the allied forces from Ife, Ijebu and the mercenary soldiers from Ibadan unleashed on the city; how they destroyed every male, both young and old, sparing only the beautiful women and those of the royal line, to keep as booty, especially for the generals.
They feared for the old man and advised him to run for dear life before the soldiers would sight him and waste him as they did to other men of the city. They were shocked when they discovered that the old man is Anlugbua, their ancestral god who also is one of the founders of the city. The women at this revelation raised alarmed and later expressed their disappointment at Anlugbua’s late coming; for they believed if he had come, as they expected any god would to defend his worshippers, the city would had been spared.
Anlugbua told them that the oath he took many years ago when he was departing prevented him from coming to their aid unless either the priests, chiefs or the diviners invoke his spirit as instructed.
The women, in describing the gory attack, gave detailed account of what was responsible for the people’s plight.
Okunade, The Maye led the allied forces under the pretext of rescuing the oppressed Owu people from the despot king, Oba Akinjobi; and for seven years his army camped around the city after failed attempt to penetrate and invade it.
Okunade the notable craftsman had abandoned his trade to train as a soldier and in the process rose in ranks to become the Maye, to avenge his favorite wife, Iyunloye, who was taken captive alongside others, by the Owu soldier when they invaded the Apomu Market.
Owu City was built round with very formidable walls and gate which kept the invaders off.
Unfortunately for the people of the city, there arose a drought in the third year of the siege, which brought about untold hardship, hunger, disease and death among the people. In the face of these suffering, the people did not relent in sacrificing to the gods. The famine had been severe that in the fourth year of the siege, the city gate having being shut away from the invaders, they endured till the seventh years when one day the city woke up to see that their allied forces had left after seven years of futile attempts. They did not know that it was a tactics used to deceive them.
While the city was celebrating the end of the siege, they were shocked seeing their city set ablaze. This forced them to axe down the city gate to escape death. They soldiers who hid in the forest came out at once and unleashed terror on the people.
Those who attempted to counter has lesser weapons to fight back as they had only their cutlasses and incantations as against the formidable guns the forces acquired in the course of trading with the Europeans on coast of Lagos.
A night prior this attack, Oba Akinjobi with some of his chiefs had escaped from the city through some of the secret exit routes.
In the process, the sacred places were desecrated as the armies killed both men and women who ran there to seek refuge.
Anlugbua and the women parted, both to nurse their pains: Anlugbua to mourn the loss of a dear city and worshippers; the women the loss of their beloved ones and the bitter experience of slavery.

Scene 2
The air is pervaded with the lamentation of the women as they mourn their losses. The marauding allied forces had finally turned the once-flourishing city of Owu Iponle, which they besieged for seven year, into a ‘relic of history.’
Erelu Afin, the queen of Oba Akinjobi, sprawled on the ground, mourning. Her eyes already have grown weary of shedding tears but now full o0f talk as she counted her losses and the fate that is yet to befall her.
Other women who are as well victims of the war, who seemed to have accepted the whole as their fate, made every attempt to placate her to also take courage since the loss is irreversible. They took turn to tell her that they were all witnesses of all the ills that befell her, that the memory of the horrible death of the princes as well as the rape of the princesses stuck still to them. They also reminded her that they too lost things of greater values to the war.
During the invasion, all the five princes who are sons of Erelu Afin were slaughtered in the full glare of other helpless survivors. The same soldiers also raped the princesses who ‘were engaged already to be married to kings’.
The women in their sorrow cursed the soldiers who wrought the terrible acts in their city while they attempted to go back to their homes. They made a pronouncement that they would be afflicted and would not get back to their motherlands.
While in their lamentation, the women made reference to The Apomu Market which was the supposed root cause of their doom. Apomu Market was notable for its uncommon merchandise and thus had attracted people from different lands to do their trading. There they trade in prized goods such as gold, silk, ivory and slaves. This market had since been in contention between the people of Owu Iponle, the Ife and the Ijebu.
Some years before the war, the Owu forcefully took control of the market forcefully from the Ife, killing their traders and also attacked the Ijebu traders whom they felt are threat to them. The Owu soldiers looted the stalls of the Ijebu traders, killed many of them and sold others as slaves.
Erelu Afin then observed that the soldiers as they put out the fire and started packing their loot with the readiness to embark of their journey home. So she called the attention of the women to this. They all realized at this point that it was pointless to contest their fate as each of them would be shared out among the soldier also as booty. Then the two women who met Anlugbua arrived with the news.
The news of the coming of Anlugbua, their ancestral father was welcome with much delight and they immediately braced up, calling on other women who already had reclined behind in their hiding places to join them to confront the soldier. The coming of Anlugbua suggested the intervention of the gods.
The women were soon disappointed when they got the whole news that Anlugbau himself conceded to defeat and had returned back to heaven as a helpless victim.
Hearing this disheartening tale, they were encouraged themselves to be prepared for a life in slavery. So they danced on to the dirge the chorus raised.

Scene 3
Lawumi appeared to Anlugbua you still remained at the spot where he appeared to the two women of Owu brooding over the destruction of beloved his city. He made to move away from Lawunmi who he knew was responsible for the act. Lawumi did not deny but persuaded Anlugbua to wait to hear her reason for allowing it. The meeting finally turned into a historical discourse over what was responsible for the fall of the Owu Kingdom.
Lawumi explained that she incited and edged the allied forces on to perpetuate the destructive war because of Owu Iponle’s arrogance against her and Ife which was the origin of the city of Owu. She went into the account of the sins of the Owu in the past how they started the fire: Owu’s early attack on Ife and Ijebu traders at the Apomu Market.
Owu Iponle held the belief that they were the superior kingdom amongst all the seven Yoruba kingdoms. That was one of the allegations Lawumi leveled against them.
Owu, though founded by Oba Asunkungbade, was founded on the help and blessings of Ife. Asunkungbade was then a priest who married Lawunmi, an Ife princess; and for this Lawunmi’s father agreed to crown him king. Thus Owu Iponle became one of the seven kingdoms of Yoruba.
Owu prospered in the couse of time and became a very formidable city and was very prosperous. One of the reasons for Owu’s prosperity was the slave trade. It was an act that violated the law Sango amongst all the Yoruba kingdoms. Sango had decreed that no Yoruma should sell other Yoruba into slavery. Thus, Ife attacked Owu at the Apomu Market which served the Owu Kingdom as her slave market. It was the source of Owu Iponle’s prosperity.
Owu sent his army against Ife and raised it down, reducing it to dust to retaliate the earlier Ife attack.
These are the details Lawumi gave for the dreadful attack the allied forces made on the city of Owu Iponle. She also was determined to punish the allied forces because of their disregards for not sparing those who ran into her groove for refuge and for desecrating the sacred places as well as defiling Orisaye who was Obatala’s vestal votary.
For thes she persuaded Anlugbua to team up with her in meting out the punishment. She informed him that Esu, Orisa Oko and Ogun had already promised to lend helping hands too.

Scene 4
Gesinde, an Ijebu officer and the herald to the allied forces came just as the women had anticipated to relay the decision of te generals to Erelu Afin. Gesinde had since been known to the Owu Kingdom being the one who had served as the go-between who took the generals’ messages to the Owu from the day the kingdom was besieged.
Seeing him, Erelu knew he had not come with good news. As far as her memory could recall, she cannot point to a particular time he had borne a single good tiding. So she asked him to relay his order. Gesinde’s order was simple: the women should prepare because they would soon be shared out to their ‘future masters’. He was furious when a woman asked if the sharing would be ‘separately or together’. By this response he confirmed their fear that there would be no preference for none of them no matter the status. He added that he would be taking Orisaye to Balogun Kusa who had requested that she should be added to his harem.
Balogun Kusa did ask for Orisaye because he realised she was a virgin, having been betrothed to Obatala, the god of purity and creativity, since birth.
When she could no longer protest what the generals had decided about her daughter Orisaye, Erelu asked him what their decision is about Adeoti, another daughter of hers. Gesinde hesitated at first, finding it her to tell but when he found his tongue said Adeoti had been sent to a place ‘where pain can no longer reach her’. Although Erelu could not decipher the whole truth of her daughter’s whereabouts, she knew this officer was hiding something important from her.
She further probed what was decided for Kesobo, whose husband, Sakula, died while defending the city, and Iyunloye who was the actual cause of the war.
As for Keosbo, she would be given to Otunba Lekki, the general who killed her husband. Iyunloye’s fate would be announced at a later time at the arrival of Maye Okunade, Iyunade’s wronged husband. He added that Okunade would soon be with them.
Erelu persisted at least she needed to know that had been determined for her. To her utter dismay, it was Balogun Derin who asked that she be allocated to him. She lamented what her fate would be in the house of the man she knew as a dog and a double-dealing liar.
Having heard all and no mention of their case was hinted, a woman in the chorus enquired what the generals decided. She was hushed and told that commoners like them would be visited after the fate of the royal line is sorted out.
Gesinde then ordered one of the soldiers who were waiting on him to fetch Orisaye whom her new master had asked to be brought to his camp immediately. He was stopped at the sight of fire and warned the women against any attempt to commit suicide.
Erelu seeing how Gesinde jittered scolded him for being frightened at the sight of Orisaye running around with a torch. She explained that such display was the impact of shock she experienced through the war that ravaged the city.
Orisaye, who was deranged, emerged with the torch in her hand and pleaded that no one should take it away but should get his instead. She already knew what the generals decided and so began to tell them what the torch was meant for. She knelt before her mother to ask to stop crying for her and beg for the mother’s blessing.
In her ranting she declared what fate awaited her prospective husband and her own end. Her ranting which she claimed are revelations shown to her by Obatala was dismissed as incoherent babbling and futile prophecies on unsound lips.
Gesinde at last began to deride the prophecy, imagining how Balogun Kusa who was revered and feared from Nupe Kingdom down to the Dahomey Kingdom could be smitten by a mad woman; and wonder how the general could stoop to ask for a lady who is known to all as unsound mind when there was a bee-hive of beautiful ladies would be glad to marry him.
As he made to take Orisaye away, he notify Erelu that it would soon be her turn soon as Balogun Derin is ready to set out. Orisaye was furious at the news of her mother becoming a slave to Balogun Derin’s wife as declared by Gesinde. She cursed Gesinde for uttering such bad statement. She announced to him that her mother would die on Owu’s soil rather than being taken away as a slave. Gesinde asked her how Erelu would die since he was ready to prevent anyone attempting suicide. Orisaye in her right chose to keep her response as a secret not meant for the ears of an enemy.
Instead she declared that Balogun Derin whose homeland was just three weeks away from Owu would wander for seventeen years in suffering, anguish and fighting without respite before reaching it.
Orisaye danced as she was being led away. Erelu, unable to bear this, fainted. The women rushed to help her. When she came to, she was mad with them for rescuing her from the claws of death; and rebuked the woman who suggested they call on the gods for help. She shifted the blame of it all on the gods for being silent in times like this.
They remembered what state they were in the previous day, that is, a day before the annihilation; how the whole streets of Owu were thrown into jubilation when they thought the invaders had left the city gates, seeing they all had deserted their camps, no smoke, or movement was perceived and no horse in sight. This departure of the allied forces marked the beginning of a new life for the city besieged for seven years.
What the people of Owu thought was the end of famine and travailed soon became a bloodbath. First, arrows bearing torches were fired into the city. The thatches of the roofs caught fire. In a twinkling of an eye, the whole city was on fire and everyone began to scurry for safety. There was chaos in the streets because there were no more places to hide. Smoke from the balls of fire engulfed every corner of the city of Owu. People headed straight for the gates in blind daze. In panic, the gates were hacked down. It was too late for them to realize they had been deceived. The enemies who had gone to hide in the surrounding forest began to troop out and open fire on the helpless victims whose best weapons were only cutlasses and incantations.
This gruesome massacre was blamed on the gods who had reclined at the time the city needed them the most for defense and deliverance but let them face extermination helplessly.
The women hinted at what the Owu priests told them when the siege was on: that Owu’s fate was the handiwork of Lawumi. Rather than just accepting their plight in good faith, the women decided to rain curses on the soldiers.

Scene 5
The actions to be taken lingered till the dawn of another day as the women are awaited the order of their new master who would take them away. They still are in mourning as they raised their dirge. The delay was owing to the misunderstanding that ensued among the generals over the sharing of the loots. Just then they observed an approaching figure. It was Adumaadan, the widow of Prince Lisabi, with her son, Aderogun, strapped to her back.
Adumaadan had asked her new master to allow her fetch whatever belongings she could in the rubble.
Erelu Afin’s agony surged up again by the memory of the loss of her child which is responsible for Adumaadan’s fate. Rather than looking her mother-in-law with pity, Adumaadan fired back at her for the role she played in aiding the hand of destruction on the city.
Many years ago, when Dejumo was born, the gods decreed he be killed because he was destined to bring destruction on the city of Owu. Because Erelu would not allow it, child was spared. Erelu became very protective knowing what she had done to preserve her child’s life. It was because of this that Adumaadan had held on to the belief that if it was only Dejumo she loved amongst her son. Having lost her husband to the war, she held Erelu responsible for her loss.
When he grew up, Dejumo was the one who took Iyunloye to wife when she was brought in among those captives taken from Apomu Market. Iyunloye was then the wife of Okunade, the notable craft man who had turned the Maye. It was because of her Okunade came to take revenge against Dejumo who took his wife after he finally learnt where Iyunade was taken to.
Erelu reminded Adumaadan that she only lost a husband, but she lost her husband, her five sons and a daughter safe, believing she still had Orisaye and Adeoti only to be told Adeoti was slaughtered during the onslaught. Adumaadan to her she found her dead at the entrance of the shrine of the goddess Lawunmi. Then Erelu realized what Gesinde meant when her said Adeoti had been sent to a place where pain can no longer reach her. While she mourn for her daughter, she thanked Adumaadan for the kindness she should her daughter in closing her eyes and pouring sand on her which was the last respect given to the dead.
Adumaadan considered Adeoti lucky because death had freed her from such terrible fate the survivors would have to experience. She pitied herself the most for being completely hopeless. She blamed her devotion to her late husband which she considered was what opened her up for the reason for being picked by her new man. For this Erelu cautioned her and encouraged her to learn to cope with the new life since she still had the boy. For as long as the boy lived, the kingdom was not wiped out.
While saying this, Gesinde, whom Erelu addressed as ‘man of misfortune’, came in to announce to them what new order the generals had given that the boy should be killed. Balogun Derin warned the allied forces that as long as the boy lived, their own future is not safe is they spare a single heir to the Owu throne.
Having warned the women not to resist, Adumaadan gave up the child and requested she hold him to her bosom for some moment before she finally surrendered him to be killed. Since it was a taboo to shoot a baby, the instruction was that its head must be bashed against the tree to crush its skull.
As the boy was being taken away, the women raised a dirge to mourn the ‘last hope of the land and last lamp that is about to be extinguished’. Not long after the dirge was raised, Maye Okunade emerged with a detail of armed soldiers. He ordered that there be silent and announced to them that he had come to decide the fate of Iyunloye having had his rival Prince Adejumo killed through the hand of one of the lower ranked soldiers. He had concluded she would be killed but how and where are what he had not finalized. He ordered two of his detail to bring Iyunloye out dragging her with hair from amongst the women. I wanted to hear her screaming for mercy.
Erelu on hearing this was please beyond measure and felt vindicated by the gods for the first time. She told Okunade he would have her blessings if he killed her. Her request startled him, and he asked if she ever knew him. Erelu introduced herself, telling how she was connected in the whole episode. She warned Okunade ahead of time not to look Iyunade in the eye because that could call up the affecting he thought had died in him years back.
Just as she said, Iyunade cunningly got him to listen to her side of the story. All she could do to keep Okunade’s memory was to continue with the making of adire cloth and named it after him as Faari Okunade. She countered that all her effort to escape from the kingdom were aborted discarding the evidences Erelu gave against her.
Okunade asked his men to take Iyunloye away to his tent to ride in his caravan as she would be stoned by the women of Ife who joined in the search with their husband and lost them in the process.
Though Erelu could not contest Maye Okunade’s finally decision but advised him to let Iyunade ride in a different caravan to avoid being won over and the hand of justice averted. Okunade left for his caravan and Iyunade was also led off. At this victory, Erelu raised a song of victory.
While the women rejoiced, Gesinde comes in to deliver the baby’s corpse alongside with Adumaadan’s last wish for her baby’s burial. He relayed to them the current state of things at the generals’ camps. Orisaye’s prophecies had started to find fulfillment. Otunba Lekki left in a hurry because he received a message that war had broken out back at home and his father’s throne had been seized.
After according the baby the honour, some women took it away to be buried. They observed a fresh fire burning in the palace. Gesinde came in the same moment and explained that they were instructed to be razed down whatever might still be standing. He told them that very soon, the horn would be blown which would suggest they all have to march along to the caravans with their captors to their new destinations.
Then Erelu announced to the women that it was to say goodbye but the chorus leader reminded her she owed the departed souls one last duty being ‘the mother of the city and the only mouth left to speak to the ancestors’. After much persuasion, she agreed to take up the responsibility. The women asked Gesinde and other soldiers to excuse them and would join the caravan a moment after since the ritual must not be done in the presence of a stranger. Gesinde agreed, instructed them to be brief and left.
The women raised the song of invocation, broke into two columns of choruses dancing around Erelu. Erelu and the chorus leaders soon were conducted into a trance. As the incantatory chant got to the climax Erelu was possessed by the spirit of Anlugbua. The same moment Anlugbua himself appeared at the scene, watching. Erelu voice changed as she responded to the chant declaring the mind and the position of the gods and what had been determined aginst the land and the survivors before he finally departed.
Erelu screamed as the spirit of Anlugbua left her and she collapsed. It took the women a while before they realized she was dead.
Anlugbua who stood on the other side then responded, making his comment on the effect of war on both the living and the gods. He promised to see to it that Owu rises again, though not on the same site where it was and not as a single city again just as Lawumi would not allow it to be so, but as little communities elsewhere within the cities of Yorubaland; which was ‘the only atonement that can be made against ceaseless volition of self-destruction’.
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Requirements /Items Needed By JAMB In Your Exam Center (JAMB Rules And Regulations)

Hi friends sitting for utme 2015, as you all know that the exam body JAMB Is well known for its strict rules which must be obeyed, we took out time to compile this and alert students who have no idea of their rules and requirement needed of them.

Today, we will be discussing about Jamb exam Rules and Regulation
As we all know about exam rule  the management of Joint Admission Matric Board also apply the
same but not all rules of Nigeria examination on jamb exam,

Below are what Jamb expect you to come with on the Day of Exam
1: BE PUNCTUAL/: Each students are required to come on time, do not buy the idea of coming late to your exam time, e.g if you have an exam by 6am you must atleast make sure you are there not less than 6:30am, inorder to settle things down for yourself.

2: E-SLIP/PHOTOCARD (IMPORTANT): Each students are expected to come to the exam center with their slip reprinted, you are also advised to come with the colored copy of it and not the black and white given to you in  a cafe, this serve as a point of identification before you enter your exam hall.

3: COME ALONG WITH A TIMER: This device can be inform of a watch or time, it can help you time yourself during your exam.
Since this years exam is cbt and have been programmed to time you, this might not be neccessary again.


ITEMS FORBIDDEN BY JAMB

1: USE OF HANDSET: This gadget is not allowed by jamb in your hall, even if you smuggled this to your hall its at your own risk.

2: IPAD/TABLETS:

Abide to this rules and am sure you will have no problem in your exams

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UTME: 90+ Synonyms To Expect In JAMB Use of English

Synonyms and antonyms constitute about 10% of JAMB Use of English Examination Questions. While you prepare for your Computer Based Test (CBT), here are a 90+ list of synonyms to revise and help equip yourself with the word power. We have sourced these from JustEnglish.me because we know how helpful they will be. And in case you have not had a look at JAMB Syllabus for Use of English, please check it here.

What are Synonyms by the way?

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The Collins Dictionary defined a synonym as a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close. In another contest, it can be a person or thing so closely associated with a particular quality or idea that the mention of their name calls it to mind. For JAMB use of English however, the first definition is more pertinent.

90+ Synonyms To Expect In JAMB Use of English

Amazing — incredible, unbelievable, improbable, fabulous, wonderful, fantastic, astonishing, astounding, extraordinary

Anger — enrage, infuriate, arouse, nettle, exasperate, inflame, madden

Angry — mad, furious, enraged, excited, wrathful, indignant, exasperated, aroused, inflamed

Answer — reply, respond, retort, acknowledge

Ask- — question, inquire of, seek information from, put a question to, demand, request, expect, inquire, query, interrogate, examine, quiz

Awful — dreadful, terrible, abominable, bad, poor, unpleasant

Bad — evil, immoral, wicked, corrupt, sinful, depraved, rotten, contaminated, spoiled, tainted, harmful, injurious, unfavorable, defective, inferior, imperfect, substandard, faulty, improper, inappropriate, unsuitable, disagreeable, unpleasant, cross, nasty, unfriendly, irascible, horrible, atrocious, outrageous, scandalous, infamous, wrong, noxious, sinister, putrid, snide, deplorable, dismal, gross, heinous, nefarious, base, obnoxious, detestable, despicable, contemptible, foul, rank, ghastly, execrable

Beautiful — pretty, lovely, handsome, attractive, gorgeous, dazzling, splendid, magnificent, comely, fair, ravishing, graceful, elegant, fine, exquisite, aesthetic, pleasing, shapely, delicate, stunning, glorious, heavenly, resplendent, radiant, glowing, blooming, sparkling

Begin — start, open, launch, initiate, commence, inaugurate, originate

Big — enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical, ample, broad, expansive, spacious, stout, tremendous, titanic, mountainous

Brave — courageous, fearless, dauntless, intrepid, plucky, daring, heroic, valorous, audacious, bold, gallant, valiant, doughty, mettlesome

Break — fracture, rupture, shatter, smash, wreck, crash, demolish, atomize

Bright — shining, shiny, gleaming, brilliant, sparkling, shimmering, radiant, vivid, colorful, lustrous, luminous, incandescent, intelligent, knowing, quick-witted, smart, intellectual

Calm — quiet, peaceful, still, tranquil, mild, serene, smooth, composed, collected, unruffled, level-headed, unexcited, detached, aloof

Come — approach, advance, near, arrive, reach

Cool — chilly, cold, frosty, wintry, icy, frigid

Crooked — bent, twisted, curved, hooked, zigzag

Cry — shout, yell, yowl, scream, roar, bellow, weep, wail, sob, bawl

Cut — gash, slash, prick, nick, sever, slice, carve, cleave, slit, chop, crop, lop, reduce

Dangerous — perilous, hazardous, risky, uncertain, unsafe

Dark — shadowy, unlit, murky, gloomy, dim, dusky, shaded, sunless, black, dismal, sad

Decide — determine, settle, choose, resolve

Definite — certain, sure, positive, determined, clear, distinct, obvious

Delicious — savory, delectable, appetizing, luscious, scrumptious, palatable, delightful, enjoyable, toothsome, exquisite

Describe — portray, characterize, picture, narrate, relate, recount, represent, report, record

Destroy — ruin, demolish, raze, waste, kill, slay, end, extinguish

Difference — disagreement, inequity, contrast, dissimilarity, incompatibility

Do — execute, enact, carry out, finish, conclude, effect, accomplish, achieve, attain

Dull — boring, tiring„ tiresome, uninteresting, slow, dumb, stupid, unimaginative, lifeless, dead, insensible, tedious, wearisome, listless, expressionless, plain, monotonous, humdrum, dreary

Eager — keen, fervent, enthusiastic, involved, interested, alive to

End — stop, finish, terminate, conclude, close, halt, cessation, discontinuance

Enjoy — appreciate, delight in, be pleased, indulge in, luxuriate in, bask in, relish, devour, savor, like

Explain — elaborate, clarify, define, interpret, justify, account for

Fair — just, impartial, unbiased, objective, unprejudiced, honest

Fall — drop, descend, plunge, topple, tumble

False — fake, fraudulent, counterfeit, spurious, untrue, unfounded, erroneous, deceptive, groundless, fallacious

Famous — well-known, renowned, celebrated, famed, eminent, illustrious, distinguished, noted, notorious

Fast — quick, rapid, speedy, fleet, hasty, snappy, mercurial, swiftly, rapidly, quickly, snappily, speedily, lickety-split, posthaste, hastily, expeditiously, like a flash

Fat — stout, corpulent, fleshy, beefy, paunchy, plump, full, rotund, tubby, pudgy, chubby, chunky, burly, bulky, elephantine

Fear — fright, dread, terror, alarm, dismay, anxiety, scare, awe, horror, panic, apprehension

Fly — soar, hover, flit, wing, flee, waft, glide, coast, skim, sail, cruise

Funny — humorous, amusing, droll, comic, comical, laughable, silly

Get — acquire, obtain, secure, procure, gain, fetch, find, score, accumulate, win, earn, rep, catch, net, bag, derive, collect, gather, glean, pick up, accept, come by, regain, salvage

Go — recede, depart, fade, disappear, move, travel, proceed

Good — excellent, fine, superior, wonderful, marvelous, qualified, suited, suitable, apt, proper, capable, generous, kindly, friendly, gracious, obliging, pleasant, agreeable, pleasurable, satisfactory, well-behaved, obedient, honorable, reliable, trustworthy, safe, favorable, profitable, advantageous, righteous, expedient, helpful, valid, genuine, ample, salubrious, estimable, beneficial, splendid, great, noble, worthy, first-rate, top-notch, grand, sterling, superb, respectable, edifying

Great — noteworthy, worthy, distinguished, remarkable, grand, considerable, powerful, much, mighty

Gross — improper, rude, coarse, indecent, crude, vulgar, outrageous, extreme, grievous, shameful, uncouth, obscene, low

Happy — pleased, contented, satisfied, delighted, elated, joyful, cheerful, ecstatic, jubilant, gay, tickled, gratified, glad, blissful, overjoyed

Hate — despise, loathe, detest, abhor, disfavor, dislike, disapprove, abominate

Have — hold, possess, own, contain, acquire, gain, maintain, believe, bear, beget, occupy, absorb, fill, enjoy

Help — aid, assist, support, encourage, back, wait on, attend, serve, relieve, succor, benefit, befriend, abet

Hide — conceal, cover, mask, cloak, camouflage, screen, shroud, veil

Hurry — rush, run, speed, race, hasten, urge, accelerate, bustle

Hurt — damage, harm, injure, wound, distress, afflict, pain

Idea — thought, concept, conception, notion, understanding, opinion, plan, view, belief

Important — necessary, vital, critical, indispensable, valuable, essential, significant, primary, principal, considerable, famous, distinguished, notable, well-known

Interesting — fascinating, engaging, sharp, keen, bright, intelligent, animated, spirited, attractive, inviting, intriguing, provocative, though-provoking, challenging, inspiring, involving, moving, titillating, tantalizing, exciting, entertaining, piquant, lively, racy, spicy, engrossing, absorbing, consuming, gripping, arresting, enthralling, spellbinding, curious, captivating, enchanting, bewitching, appealing

Keep — hold, retain, withhold, preserve, maintain, sustain, support

Kill — slay, execute, assassinate, murder, destroy, cancel, abolish

Lazy — indolent, slothful, idle, inactive, sluggish

Little — tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute

Look — gaze, see, glance, watch, survey, study, seek, search for, peek, peep, glimpse, stare, contemplate, examine, gape, ogle, scrutinize, inspect, leer, behold, observe, view, witness, perceive, spy, sight, discover, notice, recognize, peer, eye, gawk, peruse, explore

Love — like, admire, esteem, fancy, care for, cherish, adore, treasure, worship, appreciate, savor

Make — create, originate, invent, beget, form, construct, design, fabricate, manufacture, produce, build, develop, do, effect, execute, compose, perform, accomplish, earn, gain, obtain, acquire, get

Mark — label, tag, price, ticket, impress, effect, trace, imprint, stamp, brand, sign, note, heed, notice, designate

Mischievous — prankish, playful, naughty, roguish, waggish, impish, sportive

Move — plod, go, creep, crawl, inch, poke, drag, toddle, shuffle, trot, dawdle, walk, traipse, mosey, jog, plug, trudge, slump, lumber, trail, lag, run, sprint, trip, bound, hotfoot, high-tail, streak, stride, tear, breeze, whisk, rush, dash, dart, bolt, fling, scamper, scurry, skedaddle, scoot, scuttle, scramble, race, chase, hasten, hurry, hump, gallop, lope, accelerate, stir, budge, travel, wander, roam, journey, trek, ride, spin, slip, glide, slide, slither, coast, flow, sail, saunter, hobble, amble, stagger, paddle, slouch, prance, straggle, meander, perambulate, waddle, wobble, pace, swagger, promenade, lunge

Moody — temperamental, changeable, short-tempered, glum, morose, sullen, mopish, irritable, testy, peevish, fretful, spiteful, sulky, touchy

Neat — clean, orderly, tidy, trim, dapper, natty, smart, elegant, well-organized, super, desirable, spruce, shipshape, well-kept, shapely

New — fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent

Old — feeble, frail, ancient, weak, aged, used, worn, dilapidated, ragged, faded, broken-down, former, old-fashioned, outmoded, passe, veteran, mature, venerable, primitive, traditional, archaic, conventional, customary, stale, musty, obsolete, extinct

Part — portion, share, piece, allotment, section, fraction, fragment

Place — space, area, spot, plot, region, location, situation, position, residence, dwelling, set, site, station, status, state

Plan — plot, scheme, design, draw, map, diagram, procedure, arrangement, intention, device, contrivance, method, way, blueprint

Popular — well-liked, approved, accepted, favorite, celebrated, common, current

Predicament — quandary, dilemma, pickle, problem, plight, spot, scrape, jam

Put — place, set, attach, establish, assign, keep, save, set aside, effect, achieve, do, build

Quiet — silent, still, soundless, mute, tranquil, peaceful, calm, restful

Right — correct, accurate, factual, true, good, just, honest, upright, lawful, moral, proper, suitable, apt, legal, fair

Run — race, speed, hurry, hasten, sprint, dash, rush, escape, elope, flee

Say/Tell — inform, notify, advise, relate, recount, narrate, explain, reveal, disclose, divulge, declare, command, order, bid, enlighten, instruct, insist, teach, train, direct, issue, remark, converse, speak, affirm, suppose, utter, negate, express, verbalize, voice, articulate, pronounce, deliver, convey, impart, assert, state, allege, mutter, mumble, whisper, sigh, exclaim, yell, sing, yelp, snarl, hiss, grunt, snort, roar, bellow, thunder, boom, scream, shriek, screech, squawk, whine, philosophize, stammer, stutter, lisp, drawl, jabber, protest, announce, swear, vow, content, assure, deny, dispute

Scared — afraid, frightened, alarmed, terrified, panicked, fearful, unnerved, insecure, timid, shy, skittish, jumpy, disquieted, worried, vexed, troubled, disturbed, horrified, terrorized, shocked, petrified, haunted, timorous, shrinking, tremulous, stupefied, paralyzed, stunned, apprehensive

Show — display, exhibit, present, note, point to, indicate, explain, reveal, prove, demonstrate, expose

Slow — unhurried, gradual, leisurely, late, behind, tedious, slack

Stop — cease, halt, stay, pause, discontinue, conclude, end, finish, quit

Story — tale, myth, legend, fable, yarn, account, narrative, chronicle, epic, sage, anecdote, record, memoir

Strange — odd, peculiar, unusual, unfamiliar, uncommon, queer, weird, outlandish, curious, unique, exclusive, irregular

Take — hold, catch, seize, grasp, win, capture, acquire, pick, choose, select, prefer, remove, steal, lift, rob, engage, bewitch, purchase, buy, retract, recall, assume, occupy, consume

Tell — disclose, reveal, show, expose, uncover, relate, narrate, inform, advise, explain, divulge, declare, command, order, bid, recount, repeat

Think — judge, deem, assume, believe, consider, contemplate, reflect, mediate

Trouble — distress, anguish, anxiety, worry, wretchedness, pain, danger, peril, disaster, grief, misfortune, difficulty, concern, pains, inconvenience, exertion, effort

True — accurate, right, proper, precise, exact, valid, genuine, real, actual, trusty, steady, loyal, dependable, sincere, staunch

Ugly — hideous, frightful, frightening, shocking, horrible, unpleasant, monstrous, terrifying, gross, grisly, ghastly, horrid, unsightly, plain, homely, evil, repulsive, repugnant, gruesome

Unhappy — miserable, uncomfortable, wretched, heart-broken, unfortunate, poor, downhearted, sorrowful, depressed, dejected, melancholy, glum, gloomy, dismal, discouraged, sad

Use — employ, utilize, exhaust, spend, expend, consume, exercise

Wrong — incorrect, inaccurate, mistaken, erroneous, improper, unsuitable.


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