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The stock market having plunged drastically, the investor’s
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The stock market having plunged drastically, the investor’s _______ mood on the trading floor seemed incongruous.
A. enervated
B. sanguine
C. inconsolable
D. sardonic
E. funereal
F. buoyant
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The clue here is that the investor’s mood seemed incongruous in light of the bad news about the stock market; since incongruous means out of place, you need a word like happy for the blank. Both inconsolable and funereal are nearly the opposite of what you’re looking for, so eliminate choices (C) and (E).
Neither enervated, which means weakened, nor sardonic, which means mocking and derisive, is supported by the sentence, so eliminate choices (A) and (D).
Both sanguine and buoyant can mean happy, so choices (B) and (F) give you appropriate, equivalent sentences.
The clue here is that the investor’s mood seemed incongruous in light of the bad news about the stock market; since incongruous means out of place, you need a word like happy for the blank. Both inconsolable and funereal are nearly the opposite of what you’re looking for, so eliminate choices (C) and (E).
Neither enervated, which means weakened, nor sardonic, which means mocking and derisive, is supported by the sentence, so eliminate choices (A) and (D).
Both sanguine and buoyant can mean happy, so choices (B) and (F) give you appropriate, equivalent sentences.
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21 Sep 2019, 00:14
21 Sep 2019, 00:14
but how do we know whether it plunged drastically upwards or downwards, so as to know the mood of the news ?
