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Choose the word that is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in capital letters.

ADVOCATES

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Read advocates as a verb meaning to support and urge, not as a noun for a profession.
Updated On: Jul 13, 2026
  • Lawyers
  • Experts
  • Recommends
  • Loyalists.
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The Correct Option is C

Solution and Explanation

Step 1: Understanding the Concept:
ADVOCATES is used here as a verb. To advocate something means to speak in support of it and press for it to be adopted or acted on.

Step 2: Key Formula or Approach:
Match the verb sense of advocate, urging or supporting a course of action, against each option, ruling out any option that is a noun for a type of person or a word about loyalty or skill rather than about urging support.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
Lawyers names a profession, people trained in law, and does not carry the sense of urging or supporting an idea.
Experts names people with deep skill or knowledge in a field, again a description of people rather than an act of urging support.
Recommends means to suggest strongly that something be adopted or done, which is exactly what a person does when they advocate a plan or a cause.
Loyalists describes people devoted to a cause or leader, which is about faithfulness, not about the act of urging or supporting a proposal.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Because advocate as used here means to urge or support, the closest match is Recommends, option (3).
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