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- It needs a budget in the hundreds of billions of euros to___________investment projects and___________spending in countries with high unemployment.
1) debris, churlish
2) dunghill, costive
3) sweepings, sparing
4) dregs, curmudgeonly
5) underwrite ,augment
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 5)
Explanation: underwrite ,augment
underwrite – sign and accept liability under (an insurance policy), thus guaranteeing payment in case loss or damage occurs.
augment – make (something) greater by adding to it; increase. - The___________is to return control of fiscal policy to national governments,___________the pretense that policy can be regimented by EU rules.
1) trash, restriction
2) alternative, abandoning
3) scrimping, abstemiousness
4) residue, curtailment
5) hogwash, abstinence
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 2)
Explanation: alternative, abandoning
alternative – (of one or more things) available as another possibility or choice.
abandoning – cease to support or look after (someone); desert. - Any adverse___________would no longer spread to other countries, because their banks would no longer hold___________of government bonds.
1) sediment, constraint
2) avaricious, compulsion
3) acquisitive, coercion
4) compulsion, constraint
5) consequences, concentrations
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 5)
Explanation: consequences, concentrations
consequences – a result or effect, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
concentrations – the action or power of focusing all one’s attention. - Trump seems convinced that the problem is a lack of available private capital, and thus has proposed a tax plan that includes___________credits to___________private investment in infrastructure.
1) chary, secretiveness
2) obligation, hindrance
3) generous ,encourage
4) grudging, prevention
5) restraint, forbearance
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
Explanation: generous ,encourage
generous – showing a readiness to give more of something, especially money, than is strictly necessary or expected.
encourage – give support, confidence, or hope to (someone). - The reforms remove a requirement that linked mass layoffs at large companies to such firms’ global profitability; companies will now be___________to fire workers___________on the basis of domestic profitability.
1) permitted ,solely
2) chintzy, inhibition
3) ignoble, suppression
4) extortionate, scurvy
5) covetous, frugal
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 1)
Explanation: permitted ,solely
permitted – officially allow (someone) to do something.
solely – not involving anyone or anything else; only. - Greater flexibility, according to this view, will enable French firms to adjust more efficiently to changing market conditions, which in turn will make them more competitive and___________, giving the French economy a___________.
1) parsimonious, filtering
2) dynamic, boost
3) meager, repression
4) incapable, compulsion
5) inadequate, constraint
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 2)
Explanation: dynamic, boost
dynamic – (of a process or system) characterized by constant change, activity, or progress.
boost – help or encourage (something) to increase or improve. - In good times, when firms want to expand, it is the hiring costs that bind, and making it easier to fire workers will remove a key___________to investment and capacity___________.
1) facilitation, setback
2) assistance, hindrance
3) impediment ,expansion
4) drained, lessening
5) devoid, furtherance
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
Explanation: impediment ,expansion
impediment – a hindrance or obstruction in doing something.
expansion – - In terms of macroeconomic policy, his hands are tied in the eurozone, and there is little___________that Germany will help by boosting its investment and___________.
1) rapacious, fissure
2) prospect , spending
3) destitute, shrinkage
4) obliging, stagnation
5) agreeing, chasm
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 2)
Explanation: prospect ,spending
prospect – the possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring.
spending – give (money) to pay for goods, services, or so as to benefit someone or something. - This reminded me of my very first trip to Switzerland, as a student traveling on an Interrail card, when I saw Japanese tourists___________to board the___________train at Kleine Scheidegg.
1) defective, depth
2) lined up ,mountain
3) harmonious, crevasse
4) correspondent, sordid
5) homogeneous, grasping
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 2)
Explanation: lined up ,mountain
lined up – to form a row, or to put people or things in a row. The books are lined up on a shelf above the desk.
Ex – All children must line up when the whistle goes.
mountain – a large natural elevation of the earth’s surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large steep hill. - On the___________, my trip provided___________anecdotal evidence in support of the data showing a strong global recovery in 2017.
1) bereft, miserly
2) deficient, penurious
3) concordant, skimping
4) contrary, ample
5) accommodating, gorge
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 4)
Explanation: contrary, ample
contrary – opposite in nature, direction, or meaning.
ample – enough or more than enough; plentiful.
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