Thursday, December 18, 2008

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.


True to her altruistic beliefs, Natalie ------- the ------- attitude of her colleague that a client represented nothing more than a source of income and an opportunity for advancing one’s professional reputation.



  1. applauded . . conscientious

  2. condoned . . aggressive

  3. lamented . . mercenary

  4. adopted . . egotistical

  5. belittled . . magnanimous





(3)
Natalie, an “altruistic” person, would lament the attitude of a greedy and ambitious colleague whom she would describe as “mercenary.”

Difficulty: Hard
Question Type: Sentence Completions
(Critical Reading)

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