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The homicide detectives didn’t truly understand the
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The homicide detectives didn’t truly understand the _______ of the criminal until they found the secret hideout where he stored his instruments of torture and carried out his heinous acts.
A. pulchritude
B. enormity
C. ingenuity
D. iniquity
E. canniness
F. perfidy
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B and D
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13 Sep 2017, 17:50
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The clue is that the criminal carried out heinous acts, so the blank describing the criminal must be something like evil. Both enormity and iniquity can mean evil, so choices (B) and (D) give you appropriate, equivalent sentences. Choices (C) and (E) give equivalent meanings, but the sentence doesn’t support the characterization of the criminal as clever.
Neither pulchritude, which means beauty, nor perfidy, which means disloyalty, makes sense in the blank, so eliminate choices (A) and (F).
Hence options B and D are best fit!
The clue is that the criminal carried out heinous acts, so the blank describing the criminal must be something like evil. Both enormity and iniquity can mean evil, so choices (B) and (D) give you appropriate, equivalent sentences. Choices (C) and (E) give equivalent meanings, but the sentence doesn’t support the characterization of the criminal as clever.
Neither pulchritude, which means beauty, nor perfidy, which means disloyalty, makes sense in the blank, so eliminate choices (A) and (F).
Hence options B and D are best fit!
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