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Updated on: 16 Oct 2025, 01:55
Originally posted by Sajjad1994 on 11 Oct 2025, 09:00.
Last edited by Sajjad1994 on 16 Oct 2025, 01:55, edited 1 time in total.
Last edited by Sajjad1994 on 16 Oct 2025, 01:55, edited 1 time in total.
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83% (00:35) correct
16% (00:12) wrong based on 6 sessions
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The reclassification of the solar system that demoted Pluto to a “dwarf planet” did not go (i) _________, for several hundred indignant astronomers petitioned the International Astronomical Union to (ii) ________ its decision.
Blank (i)
A. astray
B. uncontested
C. unrewarded
Blank (ii)
D. reconsider
E. initiate
F. promulgate
Blank (i)
A. astray
B. uncontested
C. unrewarded
Blank (ii)
D. reconsider
E. initiate
F. promulgate
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Question # 10 | Date: 11 October 2025
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Question # 10 | Date: 11 October 2025
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Official Explanation
To contest an action is to dispute it or call it in question. The reclassification of Pluto did not go uncontested, for a large number of astronomers asked the International Astronomical Union to reconsider or rethink its decision, calling the union’s action in question.
Note the use of for, indicating a relationship of cause and effect.
Answer: B,D
To contest an action is to dispute it or call it in question. The reclassification of Pluto did not go uncontested, for a large number of astronomers asked the International Astronomical Union to reconsider or rethink its decision, calling the union’s action in question.
Note the use of for, indicating a relationship of cause and effect.
Answer: B,D
