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That the word “ bloviate”—originally used to describe how Am
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That the word “ bloviate”—originally used to describe how American president Warren Harding spoke pompously and at length—is still most often employed in a political context shows that politicians are still prone to forsake ________ speech.
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| honest |
| humorous |
| improvisational | direct | illogical |
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25 Sep 2020, 07:58
25 Sep 2020, 07:58
forsake means to abandon or give up, politician bloviated their speeches to not address the direct issues of the public. Took me a while to guess it, coz the meaning is not quite clear. Therefore direct is the answer.
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26 Oct 2020, 03:39
26 Oct 2020, 03:39
The sentence says that bloviate refers to pompous and lengthy speech and that it is still being used in the same context to describe politicians. Which means that they haven't changed their lengthy and roundabout way of speaking. So they have forsaken 'direct' speech. So that's what we choose.
