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Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000 [#permalink] New post   01 Oct 2017, 15:51
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Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000 British soldiers died for naught on the first day of the battle of the Somme, literally consumed into a stew of blood and _________.
A. grief
B. gore
C. steel
D. bullets
E. carnage
F. anguish

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Re: Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000 [#permalink] New post   08 Oct 2017, 05:02
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While many of the words make sense, the words slaughter and blood demand the correct pair.

Grief and anguish are an incorrect pair (grief is especially weird — generally, other people experience grief after someone dies, rather than a person feeling grief over his own violent death).

Hence options gore, carnage are correct!
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Re: Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000 [#permalink] New post   13 Feb 2021, 02:56
for this ,
stew of blood =boiling blood or to be rage,right?
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Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000 [#permalink] New post   27 Aug 2021, 05:39
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The conjunction "and" in

literally consumed into a stew of blood and _________.

demands a word similar to blood in the blank.

gore = blood that has been shed, especially as a result of violence.
carnage = the killing of a large number of people. But, it also reminds us of flesh and indeed it has the same root as the word "carnal".

The correct choices are B and E, gore and carnage.
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Re: Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000 [#permalink] New post   27 Aug 2021, 05:44
void wrote:
for this ,
stew of blood =boiling blood or to be rage,right?



No.

stew = a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.

In this context, it refers to something resembling a stew. It was like all the flesh and blood appeared to be cooked slowly in the battlefield - the pieces of flesh soaked in blood must have resembled a stew.
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