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      Question

      Each of the following sentences has two blanks. Choose

      the most appropriate pair of words from the five given options to fill the blanks so that the sentence is grammatically and contextually correct. The committee’s findings, though initially dismissed as speculative and lacking empirical grounding, were later found to be remarkably ______, as subsequent data began to ______ the validity of its original assumptions.
      A prescient, corroborate Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      B erroneous, refute Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      C ambiguous, obscure Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      D trivial, undermine Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      E redundant, invalidate Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

      Solution

      Clue: initially dismissed → later proven correct prescient = having foresight  corroborate = confirm with evidence  Thus: findings were visionary → later confirmed Other options are opposite: erroneous/refute → negative obscure → unclear undermine → weaken

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