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.

The actor’s ------- decline in popularity was as striking and unexpected as his ------- rise to prominence had been.

(A) sudden . . meteoric

(B) gradual . . equivocal

(C) precipitous . . obscure

(D) dazzling . . secret

(E) inevitable . . unpredictable 

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