From the given options, select the word which will adequately and correctly replace the expression.
"Any group or series of eight"
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Octave
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Octroi | a tax on goods brought into a town (despite its first letters, it has nothing to do with eight) | Trucks once paid octroi at the city limits. |
| (2) Oculist | an eye doctor (a person, not a group of eight) | The oculist prescribed new glasses. |
| (3) Ocher (ochre) | a yellowish-brown earth used as a colour, or that colour itself (it is not a number word) | The walls were painted in ocher. |
| (4) Octave (answer) | a group or series of eight (in music, the series of eight notes from one note to the next note of the same name, and in poetry, a group of eight lines) | The singer's voice rose by an octave. |