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Given below is a passage with five blanks (1-5). You are required to fill the correct word in the blanks. If none of the options fit as the replacement, according to you, then select ‘None of these’ as your answer.
There was a __(1)___ in the city of Athens which gave to its citizens the power of compelling their daughters to wed whomsoever they pleased; for upon a daughter's refusing to ___(2)___ the man her father had chosen to be her husband, the father was ___(3)____ by this law to cause her to be put to __(4)____; but as fathers do not often desire the death of their own daughters, even though they do happen to prove a little refractory, this law was ___(5)___ or never put in execution, though perhaps the young ladies of that city were not unfrequently threatened by their parents with the terrors of it.
Given below is a passage with five blanks (1-5). You are required to fill the correct word in the blanks. If none of the options fit as the replacement, according to you, then select ‘None of these’ as your answer.
There was a __(1)___ in the city of Athens which gave to its citizens the power of compelling their daughters to wed whomsoever they pleased; for upon a daughter's refusing to ___(2)___ the man her father had chosen to be her husband, the father was ___(3)____ by this law to cause her to be put to __(4)____; but as fathers do not often desire the death of their own daughters, even though they do happen to prove a little refractory, this law was ___(5)___ or never put in execution, though perhaps the young ladies of that city were not unfrequently threatened by their parents with the terrors of it.
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