| The voters first thought the candidate was ________, so they were horrified to discover the level of his ________. | |||
| a) honorable…veracity | |||
| b) tiresome…nonchalance | |||
| c) principled…perfidy | |||
| d) reprobate…wantonness | |||
| e) corrupt…turpitude | |||
“First” is a very important word here. The implication is that voters had a certain view of this person which then changed. Futhermore, the fact that the change had a horrifying effect on the voters suggests that they originally had a good impression of the candidate. So we’re looking for a pair of contrasting words in which the first word has positive connotations and the second word has negative connotations. Choice (A) has two positive words; (B), (D), and (E) all have negative pairs of words. (C) is the only choice that satisfies the criteria. Once again, we see a Sentence Completion question that is relatively easy if you have a strong vocabulary! The answer is (C).
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