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Even though legislators claimed the Contagious Diseases Acts
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03 Sep 2017, 14:35
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Even though legislators claimed the Contagious Diseases Acts strengthened the nation, social purists argued the Acts _______ the nation’s moral growth by encouraging licentious behavior.
| Blank (i) |
| (A) advanced |
| (B) ameliorated |
| (C) hampered |
| (D) supplanted |
| (E) enhanced |
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03 Sep 2017, 16:18
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While the legislators claimed the Contagious Diseases Acts strengthened the nation, the change- direction trigger even though shows that the social purists disagreed. You want a word similar to harm or weaken for the blank. Hampered is similar to harm and provides you with an equivalent sentence; advanced and enhanced go in the opposite direction, so eliminate choices (A) and (E). Ameliorated and supplanted don’t make sense in the context of
the sentence, so eliminate choices (B) and (D) and select choice (C).
Hence option C is correct!
While the legislators claimed the Contagious Diseases Acts strengthened the nation, the change- direction trigger even though shows that the social purists disagreed. You want a word similar to harm or weaken for the blank. Hampered is similar to harm and provides you with an equivalent sentence; advanced and enhanced go in the opposite direction, so eliminate choices (A) and (E). Ameliorated and supplanted don’t make sense in the context of
the sentence, so eliminate choices (B) and (D) and select choice (C).
Hence option C is correct!
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12 Apr 2024, 06:50
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The sentence fragment "social purists argued the Acts _______ the nation’s moral growth by encouraging licentious behavior." suggests that
The acts did something to the nation's moral growth. What could it be? Well since the Acts encouraged licentious behavior, social purists would naturally argue that it hampered the nation's moral growth.
The choice supplanted means completely replaced and it doesn't make sense here.
All other choices suggest that moral growth improved and this produces a contradiction as nation's moral growth does not improve by encouraging licentious behaviour.
The acts did something to the nation's moral growth. What could it be? Well since the Acts encouraged licentious behavior, social purists would naturally argue that it hampered the nation's moral growth.
The choice supplanted means completely replaced and it doesn't make sense here.
All other choices suggest that moral growth improved and this produces a contradiction as nation's moral growth does not improve by encouraging licentious behaviour.
