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Before the board of directors convenes to review the merger, the chief financial officer must ________ the committee of the revised asset valuation and carefully ________ the financial risks involved. Which of the following word pairs correctly completes the sentence?

  1. apprise / appraiseAnswer
  2. B
    appraise / apprise
  3. C
    apprise / apprise
  4. D
    appraise / appraise

Answer

apprise / appraise
The correct option is 'apprise / appraise' because 'apprise' accurately fits the first blank, meaning 'to inform or notify' (used in the pattern 'apprise someone of something'), while 'appraise' fits the second blank, meaning 'to assess or evaluate' the financial risks.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the syntactic and semantic context of the first blank: 'must ________ the committee of the revised asset valuation'.
The sentence requires a verb meaning 'to inform' or 'to notify', which is 'apprise' (commonly used in the pattern 'apprise [someone] of [something]').
'Appraise' means to assess or set a value on, which does not take the prepositional object construction 'appraise [someone] of'.
2
Analyze the semantic requirement of the second blank: 'carefully ________ the financial risks involved'.
The context requires a verb meaning 'to evaluate' or 'to assess', which corresponds to 'appraise'.
'Apprise' means to notify, which makes no sense when applied directly to abstract risks.
3
Combine the chosen words to form the complete solution.
The correct pair is 'apprise / appraise'.
This sequence satisfies both the grammatical collocation constraints and the distinct semantic requirements of each clause.

Key Concept

Distinction between phonetically and orthographically similar verbs: 'apprise' (to inform) vs 'appraise' (to assess)
Estimated Time:1m 30s
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Words Commonly Confused and Homonyms

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