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Direction: In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case. Investors spend a lot of time worrying about what can go wrong for their portfolios. This is a (93) and, indeed an essential exercise, but the obvious (94) activity, protecting a portfolio from what can go wrong, is less clearly a good idea. This seeming (95) can be entangled by recognizing that is impossible to determine if you are taking an (96) amount of risk without understanding what the downside is for your portfolio, which means you simply have to do the, exercise of understanding what can go wrong. Buying insurance for your portfolio to reduce that downside, however, is a much (97) proposition, leaving you generally either so much for broad insurance that you might as well own less in risky assets in the first place or buying insurance for such a narrow (98) of events that you haven't protected you  portfolio that much at all. This is not unilaterally true, and it can make sense to bridge a piece of the risk that goes along with an asset whose other characteristics you-like. It can also make sense to shift the assets you own in the first place given the particular risks that seem most important for your portfolio. For example, in the company Benchmark-Free Allocation Strategy they are currently hedging a piece of the risk in (99) markets to protect against the possibility of US Dollar strength, and they are choosing to hold (100) strategies and in inflation-linked bonds versus equities and conventional bonds to protect against the risk of rising inflation and rising discount rates.      

A)  infliction                      

B)  episode

C)  Disorderly        

D)         coherence        

E)  Paradox