Erudite Question

‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’. The following sentence contains which figure of speech.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION: A. personification B. metaphor C. onomatopoeia D. simile…

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If ERROR is related to practice; SOUND is related to _________.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION:  If ERROR is related to practice; SOUND is…

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Car is to Engine as Rowboat is to _______.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION: A. Oar B. Human C. Ocean D. Wood…

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Even after a century of _________ investigation, the relation of the solar cycle to terrestrial weather remains ________.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION: A. meticulous - apparent B. cursory - clear…

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Johnson was such an outstanding orator, that his _______ contemporaries were too dazzled by his to question his fundamental philosophy.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION: A. persona B. guile C. enthusiasm D. thinking…

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The explorer was unable to ________ an enraged Grizzly bear barred the way.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION: The explorer was unable to ________ an enraged…

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A _________ child, she was soon bored in class; she already knew more mathematics than her junior school teachers.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION: A _________ child, she was soon bored in…

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The alchemists, though they are often supposed to have been ________ or confidence tricksters, were actually skillful technologists.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION: A. empiricists B. polemicists C. pragmatists D. theorists…

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Literary criticism has in recent years become increasingly __________; it is almost impossible for the non-literary person to understand its analyses.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION: A. abstruse B. accessible C. colloquial D. wide-ranging…

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When he was young he _______ ideas of becoming a doctor; however, he was ______ by his father who wanted him to join the family business.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate answer to the question below. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTION: A. harbored - backed B. entertained - dissuaded…

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