GRE Question of the Day (January 4th)

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Verbal

The very title of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy suggests a robust and (i) _________tale, and the bare outline seems to fit, as the protagonist Guy Crouchback serves as a commando, trains as a paratrooper, and is dispatched to Yugoslavia to aid the partisans. In fact, however, Crouchback is an extraordinarily (ii) _________ man, ill-at-ease with his younger and more (iii) _________ fellow officers, and almost never motivated by appetite or impulse.

Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
(A) pell-mell (D) effete (G) vigorous
(B) red-blooded (E) venerable (H) puerile
(C) avant-garde (F) literary (I) timorous

 

Correct Answer - B, D, & G  - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)

Question Discussion & Explanation

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