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Some argue that profiting from terrible suffering by publishing photographic books about natural disasters is shameless _____(i)_____, but perhaps the practice has the _____(ii)_____ effect of helping us to appreciate the humanity of people living far way.

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(A) presumptuous(D) salutary
(B) idolatrous(E) specious
(C) profiteering(F) sedulous


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Re: Some argue that profiting from terrible suffering by publish [#permalink] New post   29 Aug 2017, 19:33
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The sentence talks about books that make money from publishing other people’s disasters. This is often what profiteering means. For the second blank, the clue helping us to appreciate the humanity of people requires a word meaning something like helpful. Specious and sedulous do not mean helpful, but salutary does. Thus, select profiteering and salutary.

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