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Sectional Test on Vocabulary and Word Usage IV

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Question 1

Directions: Each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.
Disuse: Some words fall into disuse as technology makes objects obsolete.

Question 2

Facetious: When I suggested that war is a method of controlling population, my father remarked that I was being facetious.

Question 3

Specious: A specious argument is not simply a false one but one that has the ring of truth,

Question 4

Parsimonious: The evidence was constructed from very parsimonious scraps of information.

Question 5

Obviate: The new mass transit system may obviate the need for the use of personal cars:
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