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The Shakespeare scholar argued that in all of the playwright
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15 Sep 2017, 17:35
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The Shakespeare scholar argued that in all of the playwright’s 37 works, he had never written the part of a _______ character, only relying on vibrant and colorful individuals to propel his stories forward.
A. pedestrian
B. original
C. imperial
D. domineering
E. extraordinary
F. mundane
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A and F
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01 Oct 2017, 02:57
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The clue is that Shakespeare was only relying on vibrant and colorful individuals, so the blank must be the opposite of vibrant and colorful. You need a word that means ordinary.
Eliminate original and extraordinary, synonyms that have the opposite meaning of ordinary. Eliminate imperial, which means regal, and domineering, which means authoritarian; neither one relates to the context of the blank. Choices (A) and (F), pedestrian and mundane, both mean common or ordinary and produce equivalent, appropriate sentences.
Hence options A and F are corrrect!
The clue is that Shakespeare was only relying on vibrant and colorful individuals, so the blank must be the opposite of vibrant and colorful. You need a word that means ordinary.
Eliminate original and extraordinary, synonyms that have the opposite meaning of ordinary. Eliminate imperial, which means regal, and domineering, which means authoritarian; neither one relates to the context of the blank. Choices (A) and (F), pedestrian and mundane, both mean common or ordinary and produce equivalent, appropriate sentences.
Hence options A and F are corrrect!
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23 Nov 2018, 03:47
23 Nov 2018, 03:47
The blank needs to be filled by a word that is the opposite of vibrant and colourful.Hence, A and F best fit the sentence.
