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There is no fundamental difference between a person who quietly ______
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02 May 2023, 01:05
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There is no fundamental difference between a person who quietly ___________ a bigoted viewpoint to a friend and one who spews chauvinist vitriol on television.
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| A. eschews |
| B. espouses |
| C. professes | D. denies | E. reneges |
| F. substantiates |
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06 May 2023, 04:00
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This sentence originally posits that there is “no fundamental difference” between two things, but the overall point is that the two things do look different on the surface. That means you want something that does the opposite of “spews chauvinist vitriol on television,” such as something that quietly expresses it. A good fill-in would be communicates. Denies and reneges (renounces or denies) are an incorrect pair. Eschews is also pretty close to that pair. Substantiates, meaning “to support or verify,” goes beyond communicates and is too positive to go with “a bigoted viewpoint.”
This sentence originally posits that there is “no fundamental difference” between two things, but the overall point is that the two things do look different on the surface. That means you want something that does the opposite of “spews chauvinist vitriol on television,” such as something that quietly expresses it. A good fill-in would be communicates. Denies and reneges (renounces or denies) are an incorrect pair. Eschews is also pretty close to that pair. Substantiates, meaning “to support or verify,” goes beyond communicates and is too positive to go with “a bigoted viewpoint.”
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24 Sep 2023, 09:01
24 Sep 2023, 09:01
I think the "to a friend" plays an important role here. It would be stylistically wrong to espouse a believe to a friend. While profess could also mean assert, i think it would be more fit to pair it with substantiate merely because we have an object here (a friend).
