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Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000 British soldiers died for naught on the first day of the battle of the Somme, literally consumed into a stew of blood and _________. A. grief B. gore C. steel D. bullets E. carnage F. anguish
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08 Oct 2017, 05:02
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Explanation
While many of the words make sense, the words slaughter and blood demand the correct pair.
Grief and anguish are an incorrect pair (grief is especially weird — generally, other people experience grief after someone dies, rather than a person feeling grief over his own violent death).
Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000
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27 Aug 2021, 05:39
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The conjunction "and" in
literally consumed into a stew of blood and _________.
demands a word similar to blood in the blank.
gore = blood that has been shed, especially as a result of violence. carnage = the killing of a large number of people. But, it also reminds us of flesh and indeed it has the same root as the word "carnal".
The correct choices are B and E, gore and carnage.
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27 Aug 2021, 05:44
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for this , stew of blood =boiling blood or to be rage,right?
No.
stew = a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.
In this context, it refers to something resembling a stew. It was like all the flesh and blood appeared to be cooked slowly in the battlefield - the pieces of flesh soaked in blood must have resembled a stew.
gmatclubot
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