dragn
Joined: 17 Feb 2009
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 Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:48 am Post subject: |
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1. This medicine has very little _______ on him.
(A) affect (B) effect (C) affection (D) affectation
The answer is (B), but how about (A)? Is there any difference? |
You need the noun effect here. Affect is a verb. (A) is wrong.
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2. Can you _______ that a statement is true?
(A) affirm (B) confirm (C) infirm (D) conform
3. The spokesman could neither deny nor _______ the rumors.
(A) affirm (B) confirm (C) infirm (D) expect
The answers to questions 2 and 3 are (B). Is (A) acceptable? |
Well, basically if you affirm something, you state firmly and publicly that it is true. It is also a bit more formal.
If you confirm something, you state that it is true because you know about it.
Confirm makes better sense in both sentences, and would be by far the more common choice. It's another one of these situations where you could argue strenuously that no grammar rules are actually being violated, but trust me. Nobody would say affirm here.
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4. Her beauty _______ me to folly.
(A) alluded (B) allured (C) deluded (D) concluded
The answer is (C). Can I choose (B)? |
Technically, yes. As a verb, the word allure (which is normally a noun) means to attract with something desirable; to tempt or entice. So, I would have to say it makes sense.
However, I think that deluded is better, since it fits the context of folly better. If you've been deluded, you've believed some things that are not true and in many cases have been led to do something foolish.
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