Nitrogen has lower electron affinity that its preceding element carbon because

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Electron affinity decreases along a period

Electron affinity generally increases along a period

Nitrogen atom has half-filled p-orbital

Nitrogen is a p-block element

answer is C.

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Because of stable half filled configuration of ‘N’ , it has less affinity towards electron.

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