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English Language Proficiency Quiz - Idioms, Grammar & Vocabulary
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In the shock and shame of her father's marriage, she had put away childish things, among them her schoolmates, who seemed in the retrospect immature and ________.
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Puerile
💡 Explanation:
'Puerile' means childish, immature, or silly - perfectly parallel to 'immature' in describing schoolmates from a mature perspective. Defunct means no longer existing. Disjoint means disconnected. Spendthrift means wasteful with money. The sentence contrasts childish things with mature perspective, requiring a synonym for childish.