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Text Completion #Q36-Gomez seemed a pleasing combination of
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04 Sep 2014, 13:04
04 Sep 2014, 13:04
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To his friends and social companions Gomez seemed a pleasing combination of affable and (i) ______. His employees and business associates, however, found him to be as (ii)____________ as he was officious.
Blank (i)
o Pernicious
o Complaisant
o Mercurial
Blank (ii)
o Meddlesome
o Prescient
o Puerile
Blank (i)
o Pernicious
o Complaisant
o Mercurial
Blank (ii)
o Meddlesome
o Prescient
o Puerile
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Explanation: Answer complaisant – meddlesome.
Re: Text Completion #Q36-Gomez seemed a pleasing combination of
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19 Jun 2016, 10:16
19 Jun 2016, 10:16
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I have doubt in the second blank.
however, found him to be as (ii)____________ as he was officious.
Officious and meddlesome are synonyms. And the two blanks should have two different qualities of Gomez. Otherwise "as meddlesome as he was officious" is redundant.
Please explain where I am wrong?
however, found him to be as (ii)____________ as he was officious.
Officious and meddlesome are synonyms. And the two blanks should have two different qualities of Gomez. Otherwise "as meddlesome as he was officious" is redundant.
Please explain where I am wrong?
Re: Text Completion #Q36-Gomez seemed a pleasing combination of
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19 Jun 2016, 12:01
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gracehopper17 wrote:
I have doubt in the second blank.
however, found him to be as (ii)____________ as he was officious.
Officious and meddlesome are synonyms. And the two blanks should have two different qualities of Gomez. Otherwise "as meddlesome as he was officious" is redundant.
Please explain where I am wrong?
however, found him to be as (ii)____________ as he was officious.
Officious and meddlesome are synonyms. And the two blanks should have two different qualities of Gomez. Otherwise "as meddlesome as he was officious" is redundant.
Please explain where I am wrong?
I think it shouldn't be antonym. The first blank is complaisant and affable are similar words, so the second blank should have a similar structure.
