Hi, I found these questions a little difficult to answer.
1. circuitous: route
a.problematic: solution
b.devious: argument
c.elliptical:brevity
d.judicious: selection
e. profound: depth
Ans.b
2. helpful: officious
a.dutiful:assiduous
b. effusive:gushing
c.gullible:incredulous
d.enigmatic:dumbfounded
e. deferential
ycophantic
Ans.e
3.I had a problem making the defining statement for this one.
Horns: bull
a.mane:lion
b.wattles:turkey
c.antlers
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d.hoofs:horse
e.wings:eagle
Ans.c. How?
4.When Frazer's editors at Macmillan tried to ---------- his endless augmentations, he insisted on a type size so small and a page so packed as to approach illegibility; and if that proved ------------ thinner paper.
a.protract....unwarranted
b.expurgate......satisfactory
c.reprimand........irrelevant
d.restrict.......insufficient
e.revise....idiosyncratic
ans. d.
5. The authority of voice in Frazer's writing strikes many readers today as ------------ colonialism; his prose seems as invulnerable and expansive as something on which the sun was presumed never to set.
a. consonant with
b. independent of
c.ambivalent toward
d.cognizant of
e.detrimental to
I chose d. cognizant of...but the answer is a. consonant with...How?
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