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GATE 2016 ME (ME3) – Question 2

General Aptitude · Verbal Aptitude: Grammar and Vocabulary · 1 mark · Multiple choice

The students ___________ the teacher on teachers’ day for twenty years of dedicated teaching.

  1. facilitated
  2. felicitated
  3. fantasized
  4. facillitated

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Correct answer: (B) felicitated

Explanation

To felicitate someone is to congratulate or honour that person on an achievement. The ceremony therefore **felicitated the teacher, B**. The other supplied words do not express this act of public recognition.