Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

Marconi’s invention, “wireless telegraphy”, was a means of Morse code through the air and though it was an ________ breakthrough, the next step of transmitting the human voice without wires wouldn’t have been accomplished without the ________ of Steinmetz and his brilliant associates.

  1. unqualified; ingenuity

  2. absolute; artifice

  3. effectual; ineptitude

  4. efficacious; heavy handedness

  5. synoptic; dereliction
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

'Unqualified' breakthrough is out and out a breakthrough. Thus, 'unqualified' replaces the first blank. 'Brilliant associates' is a clue for the second blank. ‘Ingenuity’ gives sense to 'brilliant associates'. Hence, option (1) is the correct answer.

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