Directions: Each of the sentences in the following items has an underlined word, followed by four choices. Select the most appropriate option that improves/corrects the underlined word in the context of the sentence, and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
He had cultivated such great temperance in his personality that he was **impassioned** in his dealing with the vicissitudes of life.
- Adispassionate
- Bperfunctory
- Cdevolved
- Ddisambiguated
Explanation
The sentence praises "temperance" — self-restraint and moderation — so the contrasting word must reflect calm detachment, not passion. "Impassioned" (full of strong feeling) directly contradicts temperance and must be corrected. "Dispassionate" means not influenced by strong emotion, which is exactly how a temperate person meets life's vicissitudes. "Perfunctory" (done with minimal effort), "devolved" (transferred) and "disambiguated" (clarified) are irrelevant to the required sense.