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Sentence completion

Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole:

(1) Although the more benign advertising slogans are designed merely to sell products and the more insidious are ��� that set goals for behavior and achievement, they both serve to interfere with self-acceptance and to ��� discontent.


(a) deterrents ... inhibit
(b) queries ... suspend
(c) auguries ... challenge
(d) mandates ... banish
(e) imperatives ... engender

Analogy

Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair:


(2) strut : ostentatious

(a) vacillate : modest
(b) cringe : servile
(c) flinch : indolent
(d) waiver : arrogant
(e) sputter : fastidious

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