Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

When, in 1864, a factory established by Alfred Nobel to manufacture nitroglycerin blew up, the scientist discovered that the explosive was as ------- as it was powerful, ------- to detonate without warning.

(A) dormant . . ready

(B) fickle . . unlikely

(C) volatile . . liable

(D) unprecedented . . intended

(E) inactive . . designed

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