The truce turned out to be anything but _________ and in two days things were again _________.
a. amicable. . .unprecedented
b. congenial. . .conducive
c. cohesive. . .sanguinary
d. acrimonious. . .disarrayed
e. compromising. . .topsy-turvy
Clearly, this truce did not go well. The way this is worded, though, necessitates that the first blank has something to do with going well (the truce turned out anything but well). Choice (D) can be thrown out on this basis. The second blank will have to refer to the poor relationship that has been reestablished as a result of the ineffective truce. Choice (A) would not work; something cannot be “again unprecedented.” (B) would not work. “Conducive” to what?? (E) does not work because you wouldn’t want a truce to put you in a compromising position after having signed it. So the truce was anything but “cohesive”—it didn’t bring the parties together like a good truce should. Rather, things returned to a sanguinary, or bloody, state. The answer is (C).
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