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3. Read the sentence from the passage.

"The way he looked at you from under his eyebrows, not eagerly, nor furtively, but with a
self possessed, competent air, quite like a captain scanning a horizon from the bridge, watching the
shifting crowds from one of the little stone circles anchored out in the rush of the boulevards,-a look
of authority backed by a sense of unlimited power."
Which feeling is suggested by the use of the word competent?
A. disdain
B. hostility
C. assurance
D. kindness

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Answer:

Assurance

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