GRE Verbal Sentence Completion Challenge Question #16:
On an aptitude test in 1986, an argument posited that the possibility of conducting banking transactions from home was as likely as flying cars, an argument that today sounds ___________.
A. Prescient
B. Paradoxical
C. Presumptuous
D. Preposterous
E. Pithy
Explanation:
Correct Choice: ( D )Preposterous. The blank must agree with the clue that the possibility is remote.
Note that prescient is the opposite of what you want — because the prediction about the future was entirely wrong, it did not sound prescient.
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