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07 Feb 2025, 10:37
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After renouncing the significant advantages of his noble birth, he wandered from village to village as a lowly _________; this reliance on alms, he maintained along with other members of his religious order, was the life best suited to one who wished to see both the miserliness and the generosity of humanity.
A. abettor
B. mendicant
C. rube
D. anachronism
E. malefactor
A. abettor
B. mendicant
C. rube
D. anachronism
E. malefactor
09 Feb 2025, 00:43
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The proof to find is that he “wandered” and was “lowly” and lived by a “reliance on alms,” which is a reliance on charity, as did the “other members of his religious order.” A mendicant is sometimes just a beggar, but it can have a specifically religious connotation. The other choices all introduce meanings that the rest of the sentence doesn’t suggest. Both abettor (a person who supports an action, typically wrongdoing) and malefactor (evildoer) introduce the unsupported idea that he was bad. Rube (unsophisticated or naive person) and anachronism (person or object out of its proper time) do not follow from the clues either.
Answer: B
The proof to find is that he “wandered” and was “lowly” and lived by a “reliance on alms,” which is a reliance on charity, as did the “other members of his religious order.” A mendicant is sometimes just a beggar, but it can have a specifically religious connotation. The other choices all introduce meanings that the rest of the sentence doesn’t suggest. Both abettor (a person who supports an action, typically wrongdoing) and malefactor (evildoer) introduce the unsupported idea that he was bad. Rube (unsophisticated or naive person) and anachronism (person or object out of its proper time) do not follow from the clues either.
Answer: B
