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By disclosing and explaining the details of her personal fin
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22 Aug 2017, 15:03
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By disclosing and explaining the details of her personal finances before they could be used against her, the council member ____(i)____ her opponent’s attacks during the campaign. Rather than waiting to react to the inevitable criticism should her opponent find something questionable, her campaign manager thought this strategy would be more ____(ii)____.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
| (A) prefigured | (D) enigmatic |
| (B) decried | (E) pragmatic |
| (C) precluded | (F) dogmatic |
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C and E
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The council member’s strategy made her opponent’s attacks impossible or useless, so you need a word for the first blank that means something like made impossible. Of the choices, only precluded makes sense. The second blank is a description of the strategy in opposition to a less effective one, so a word like effective or useful would make sense. Of the choices, only pragmatic, which means practical, fits.
Hence option C and E are correct!
The council member’s strategy made her opponent’s attacks impossible or useless, so you need a word for the first blank that means something like made impossible. Of the choices, only precluded makes sense. The second blank is a description of the strategy in opposition to a less effective one, so a word like effective or useful would make sense. Of the choices, only pragmatic, which means practical, fits.
Hence option C and E are correct!
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