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Official People Good Organizing Arrogant Officious Connected Group

Idx 1967
Keyword official
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence She is good at organizing people without seeming arrogant or official.
Correct Sentence She is good at organizing people without seeming arrogant or officious.
Cloze Error Sentence She is good at organizing people without seeming arrogant or [[official]].
Cloze Sentence She is good at organizing people without seeming arrogant or [[officious]].
Cloze Answer officious
Choices official | officious
Explanation

official = done by or connected with a person or group in authority; formal: 'an official letter', 'an official inquiry', 'official approval'

officious (expressing dislike or disapproval) = too eager to give orders or make people keep to rules which are unimportant: 'An officious little man at the check-in insisted that my luggage was half a kilo overweight.'

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