That which cannot be corrected.
Answer: D
It is incorrigible.
Incorrigible means beyond correction, from the Latin corrigere, to correct. Illegible means unreadable, indelible means impossible to erase, and unintelligible means impossible to understand.
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A state in which a few govern the many.
Answer: B
It is oligarchy.
Oligarchy is rule by a few, from the Greek oligos, few. Monarchy is rule by one, autocracy is rule by one with absolute power, and plutocracy is rule by the wealthy.
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A person who regards the whole world as his country.
Answer: C
It is a cosmopolitan.
A cosmopolitan is a citizen of the world, from the Greek kosmos and polites. A patriot and a nationalist are attached to one country; metropolitan means belonging to a large city.
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The simplest and smallest form of plant life, present in air, water and soil, essential to life but capable of causing disease.
Answer: C
They are bacteria.
Bacteria are single-celled organisms found in air, water and soil, most of them harmless or useful. A virus is not a cell and cannot live independently; an amoeba is a protozoan, not a plant.
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To lead someone astray, especially into sexual wrongdoing.
Answer: A
It is seduce.
To seduce is to lead astray, from the Latin for leading aside. To entice is to attract without the implication of wrongdoing, and to incite is to stir to action of any kind.
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An ordnance declaring President's rule in the state has been issued today.
The ordinance depot is situated far away from this city.
Answer: D
Both are incorrect, but interchanging the words would put them right.
An ordinance is a decree, and an ordnance depot stores military supplies. The two sentences have the pair the wrong way round.
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He always makes so much noise when he _______.
Answer: A
It is chews.
Chews is the verb the sentence needs, agreeing with the singular he. Choose is the base form and would need an auxiliary; the two are pronounced alike.
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The team ____________ the playoffs.
Answer: A
It is won.
Won is the past tense of win. One is the number, and the two are pronounced identically.
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A small room in a large house, hotel or ship where glasses, dishes, spoons and food are kept.
Answer: B
It is a pantry.
A pantry stores food and the utensils for serving it, from the French pain, bread. A portico is a covered entrance with columns and a mezzanine a low storey between two others.
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A speech designed to incite action
Answer: D
It is an exhortation.
An exhortation urges its hearers to act, from the Latin hortari, to encourage. A rodomontade is empty boasting and an ingrate is an ungrateful person.
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