Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks:

The politicians by their mean acts are trying to _______ the _______ minds of today's youth.

  1. debase, fecund

  2. evade, suave

  3. bestow, doughty

  4. extirpate, crumble

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Explanation

Debase means to degrade, lower, or reduce in quality or value. Fecund means fertile, productive, or capable of producing offspring or ideas. The sentence means politicians are trying to degrade the productive minds of youth through their mean acts. Evade means to escape, extirpate means to destroy completely.

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