Craft and StructureHardWord for something done out of habit
Craft and Structure practice question
The ringers' ____ pause before the last bell — a beat of silence no one can now explain — is kept as carefully as the bell itself.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A. customaryCorrect
- B. accidental
- C. recent
- D. forbidden
Answer: A. customary
Kept carefully, unexplained: a custom.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. accidental
- Something kept deliberately is not accidental.
- C. recent
- An inexplicable pause suggests age, not recency.
- D. forbidden
- It is kept, not banned.
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