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Answer: (c)

Answer: (d)

The meaning of the sentence makes it clear that the reference is to an arrogant and presumptuous vanity. So 'overweening', meaning 'overconfident' or 'conceited' is the answer. The other given options have different meanings. 'Overwrought' is 'to be overexcited'; 'overwhelming' (adj.) is 'to be crushed beneath some mass or overpowered with emotion or excess of something'. 'Overstrung' (adj.) is 'highly strung or intensely strained (of person, nerves, etc.)'.

Answer: (d)

'Inevitable' means 'certain to happen', 'not able to be avoided'. 'Indispensable' means 'cannot be dispensed with' or 'absolutely necessary'. 'Necessary' means 'needed' or 'required'.

Answer: (b)

'Scalded' means 'injuring skin with hot liquid or vapour'. In contrast, 'scorch' is 'to burn surface, as of skin, with flame or heat so as to discolour or injure'. 'Wounded' is 'to get injured by other means—a cut, stab, blow, tear, the injury going beyond the surface'. 'Sizzle' actually means 'to make sputtering sound as of frying'; colloquially, it means 'to be in a state of great excitement or marked effusiveness'.

Answer: (d)

'Presupposes' will be unsuitable as 'previous' is already mentioned in the sentence.