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.

You have to go out garroting up data from people's memories. You can then slice it and dice it to see what is really working and what isn't.

  1. scraping

  2. scouring

  3. touching

  4. burnishing

  5. licking
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The word on look out should be related to 'collecting', so, (3), (4) and (5) are all eliminated. Scouring means to 'search', but scraping relates to collect something with labour and hard work, hence, (1) is the answer.

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