For the following word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.

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

Put this medicine on your arm and rub it into your skin until it’s invisible. It will inhibit the infection’s attempt to spread. What does “inhibit” mean?

For the following word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context.

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

Those scientists want to hear what our professor thinks about their theory because he is the foremost expert in their field.

For the following word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context. Specious: A specious argument is not simply a false one but one that has the ring of truth.

It’s a wonder to me how anyone can still be undecided about this election. These two candidates are certainly distinct. Each would lead our nation in opposite directions.
What does “distinct” mean?

The best recipes for clam chowder all include onions and a bay leaf.
The onions add a sharpness and zest to the blandness of the clams,
and also help remove their slimy texture. The bay leaf complements
the onion’s strong flavor.

This paragraph best supports the statement that?

Donna’s memo caused much contention around the office last week.
She may have meant well, but her usually caustic tone offended
almost everybody. She has become a consistent nuisance at work,
and probably should be fired.

The underlined word caustic, as used in this passage, most nearly
means

Most of the women in the orchestra wore conventional black skirts
and white shirts during concerts and had their hair neatly pulled
back. Robin, with her brightly colored clothing and unusual hairstyles, was considered quite eccentric.

What is the meaning of the underlined word eccentric as it is used
in the sentence?

At its completion in the early 1950s, Levittown included 19,600 homes. The new development was now a major suburban community that included 82,000 husbands and wives and their children. In a second wave of development and construction in 1951, the Levitt family created an additional Levittown community of 19,000 homes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.

The suburban sprawl had begun. Families would fill them quickly. The growing popularity
and availability of automobiles also encouraged the flight to get out of big cities. The
National Highway Program of 1956 built highways and interstate roads connecting
rural areas to metropolitan areas, contributing to a flurry of even more suburban development.

which of the following is the best definition of “flurry”?

True, it is the function of the army to maintain law and order in abnormal times. But in normal times there is another force that compels citizens to obey the laws and to act with due regard to the rights of others. The force also protects the lives and the properties of law abiding men. Laws are made to secure the personal safety of its subjects and to prevent murder and crimes of violence. They are made to secure the property of the citizens against theft and damage to protect the rights of communities and castes to carry out their customs and ceremonies, so long as they do not conflict with the rights of others. Now the good citizen, of his own free will
obey these laws and he takes care that everything he does is done with due regard to the rights and well-being of others. But the bad citizen is only restrained from breaking these laws by fear of the consequence of his actions. And the necessary steps to compel the bad citizen to act as a good citizen are taken by this force. The supreme control of law and order in a State is in the hands of a Minister who is responsible to the State Assembly and acts through the Inspector General of Police.

The expression ‘customs and ceremonies’ means:

A library is an organized collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both. A library’s collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, e-books and other formats. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books to several million items. A library is organized for use and is maintained by a public body, an institution, a corporation, or a private individual. Public and institutional collections and services may be intended for use by people who choose not to or cannot afford to purchase an extensive collection themselves, who need material no individual can reasonably be expected to have, or who require professional assistance with their research. In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of librarians who are experts at finding and organizing information and at interpreting information needs. Libraries often provide quiet areas for studying, and they also offer common areas to facilitate group study and collaboration. Libraries are extending services beyond the physical walls of a building by providing material accessible by electronic means. 

Libraries range in size from?