Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labelled (1) through (5). Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The _________ of the early morning light _______ the room, making it larger and cosier at once.

  1. brilliance, pulverize

  2. harshness, transfigured

  3. warmth, extirpated

  4. glare, annihilated

  5. softness, transformed
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E Correct answer
Explanation

As we are talking about the early morning light, the filler cannot be ‘brilliance’ or ‘harshness’ or 'glare'. And since the light makes the room larger and cosier, ‘transformed’ will be the best word for the second blank. Extirpated means to destroy/abolish. This does not fit with the rest of the sentence. Hence, the answer is (5).

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