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Choose the word that is CLOSEST IN MEANING to the word in capital letters in the sentence: "The farmer has endured the VICISSITUDES of weather and market prices."

  1. constancies
  2. vicinities
  3. ups and downs
  4. solicitudes

Answer

C. ups and downs

Solution

VICISSITUDES means "changes of fortune or circumstance," so the closest in meaning is "ups and downs."

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