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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
Fraternity, then, was meant to complement civil rights, (Q.96) to destroy them. The (Q.97) framers did not use this symbolic term for a court to come along 66 years (Q.98) and (Q.99) it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights to some mythic notion of community harmony, entirely submerging the individual (Q.100) the society.

Find the appropriate word for Q.100.

  1. A
    on
  2. B
    onto
  3. C
    upon
  4. D
    within

Solution & Step-by-step Explanation

The verb "submerge" means to cause to be under the surface of something or completely surrounded by it. The idiomatically correct preposition to express something being completely encompassed or absorbed inside an entity like society is "within".

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
Fraternity, then, was meant to complement civil rights, (Q.96) to destroy them. The (Q.97) framers did not use this symbolic term for a court to come along 66 years (Q.98) and (Q.99) it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights to some mythic notion of community harmony, entirely submerging the individual (Q.100) the society.

Find the appropriate word for Q.100.
A
on
B
onto
C
upon
D
within

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