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Old 08-11-2008, 11:45 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Also, can sum1 xplain d approach for the 4th question. i.e. The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ____ as ______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.

A. circumlocution...literal
B. cliche ... lucid
C. euphemism... impenetrable
D. particularity... deliberate
E. subjectivity... enthralling

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Old 09-16-2008, 07:37 AM   #12 (permalink)
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3. During periods of social and cultural stability, many art academies are so firmly controlled by----that all real creative work must be done by the----.
(A) dogmatists.. disenfranchised
(B) managers.. reactionaries
(C) reformers.. dissatisfied
(D) imposters.. academicians
(E) specialists.. elite

oa :
SPOILER: a


4. The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ____ as ______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.

A. circumlocution...literal
B. cliche ... lucid
C. euphemism... impenetrable
D. particularity... deliberate
E. subjectivity... enthralling

oa:
SPOILER: c
please explain
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Old 09-16-2008, 08:09 PM   #13 (permalink)
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4. The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ____ as ______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.

first word should be related with "jargon and verbal delicacy(+ve)...so it is obviously euphemism.......second word should have some +ve or -ve quality like language and literature....so it may be lucid but it is against euphemism or jargon....so i think now u can link....

other one is not totally clear to me
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