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This question is part of 5 lb. Book of GRE® Practice Problems Verbal Question Directory

When he joked about his shortcomings as a husband, his humor grew too (i) _________ for our comfort, becoming so bitter and ironic that we found ourselves (ii) _________.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)
(A) frantic	(D) disquieted
(B) mordant	(E) antipathetic
(C) choleric	(F) sanguine

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Mordant, disquieted.

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The first word should match “bitter and ironic,” and the second evidently means something like “uncomfortable.”

Mordant, disquieted.
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