Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Enrique did not take Marisol seriously when she told him she was going to bed to sleep for a week: he knew she was prone to -------.

(A) earnestness

(B) belligerence

(C) simile

(D) hyperbole

(E) understatement 

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