Multiple choice

Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.

To live by the work of intellect, to stand on nothing but the merit of one's ideas and to rely on nothing but objective pother, is a task that only a man on the conceptual level of psycho-epistemology can fulfill.

  1. hypothesis

  2. deceit

  3. appraisal

  4. axioms

  5. truth
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Let’s relate each option with the given blank. Which task is impossible to be fulfilled? Hypothesis, deceit, appraisal? No, they are very easy, so eliminated. Axioms are not related as axioms refer to pithy sayings. Speaking the objective truth eminently fits in with the positive ‘intellect’ and ‘merit’

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