91.
Underpins, undergirds.
The company’s “unsuccessful products manage”
to look very good, so this “obsession with aesthetics” is found throughout or
permeates the company’s work. Both “underpins” and “undergirds” fit this
meaning. “Irradiates” means either to expose to radiation or to illuminate.
“Underserves” means to fail to provide adequate services and does not make
sense here. “Saturates” and “overwhelms” might be thought of as a pair, but
would not be used in the same context, nor would these extreme words best fit
the sentence.
92.
Thwarted, undermined.
The end of this sentence makes it clear that the
teachers in question are not happy about having to “cleave,” or stick, to a
prescribed curriculum because it prevented them from teaching in a “creative
and dynamic” way. “Crushed,” “confounded,” “walloped,” and “tormented”
are all negative, but all of them miss the meaning of the sentence (and no two
of them make a good pair). On the other hand, “thwarted” and “undermined”
fit the context: the teachers were prevented from teaching in the way they felt
best.
93.
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