UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN POST-UTME PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (USE OF ENGLISH)

Vocabulary, entity definitions, and grammatical terms extracted from the University of Ibadan Post-UTME Use of English practice questions and reading passages.

AC

A political party reported to have reached out to PDP legislators to cross-carpet in order to gain a majority and assume the Speakership.

Zakawanu Garuba

The then Speaker of the Edo House who attempted to cling to his chair and threatened to declare the seats of defectors vacant.

Cross-carpet

A term meaning to change political party membership.

Capital flight

The movement of money out of a country, which the Petroleum Technology Development Fund revealed is as much as $\$16 \text{ billion}$ per annum in the oil and gas sub-sector.

PHCN

The Power Holding Company of Nigeria, which is part of a troubled power sector undergoing reforms to usher in private sector dominance.

Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu

The former Minister of Power and Steel who in 1998 directed NEPA to source its costable components from Nigerian foundries.

Electricity Meter Company

A Federal Government-owned company in Zaria, Kaduna State, established in 1976 and sold to Dantata Investments Limited in December 2002.

Magnanimous

A term describing someone who is kind and generous.

Overbearing

An attitude characterized as being opinionated and domineering.

Makeshift

A word used to describe temporary structures, such as buildings.

Invaluable

An expression meaning extremely useful.

Dawn-to-earth

A term defined in the text as an ordinary approach.

Indifferent

A state of being not concerned about a particular choice or situation.

Ad hoc

A type of arrangement that is temporary.

Dispassionate

A quality of being unaffected when making a decision.

Frailty

A term referring to human weakness.

Lackadaisical

An attitude described as carefree.

Profligate

Spending habits characterized as being wasteful.

Oblivious

A state of being unconscious of a particular situation.

Trepidation

The feeling of fear when looking into the future.

Lanky

A physical description of a person who is tall and thin.

Brainchild

A term meaning an invention or original idea.

Ameliorate

The opposite in meaning to exacerbate.

Reciprocal pronoun

A grammatical term for expressions such as each other.

Gerund

A verbal form ending in -ing that functions as a noun, such as writing or acting.

Appositive phrase

A grammatical expression that renames a noun, such as a brilliant lecturer in the sentence My friend, a brilliant lecturer, won many prizes.

Finite verb

The element that a clause contains which distinguishes it from a phrase.

Subordinating conjunction

The grammatical function of the word because in the sentence I passed very well because I studied hard.