Completing Statements
- Her ______ display of tears at work did not impress her new boss, who felt she should try to control her emotions.
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means excessively and weakly sentimental or tearfully emotional.
Correct Option: A
means excessively and weakly sentimental or tearfully emotional.
- With her ______ eyesight, Krystyna spotted a trio of deer on the hillside and she reduced the speed of her car.
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means being extremely sensitive or responsive; having strength of perception.
Correct Option: B
means being extremely sensitive or responsive; having strength of perception.
- If you will not do your work of your own ______, I have no choice but to penalize you if it is not done on time.
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means accord; an act or exercise of will.
Correct Option: D
means accord; an act or exercise of will.
- Steven is always ______ about showing up for work because he feels that tardiness is a sign of irresponsibility.
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means arriving exactly on time.
Correct Option: C
means arriving exactly on time.
- When science goes berserk, society looses its moorings, sanity begins to play truant and ______________
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Refer to explanation
Correct Option: B
The given part of sentence has negative act and so the blank takes negative phrase. We eliminate choice D as it is positive. Choice A and C take sanity as subject because of conjunction "and". Sanity has nothing to do with neglect of values and havoc with nature, though these are negative. So, it is not appropriate
Choice B is apt
