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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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