Test: PSAT Critical Reading

Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.

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Throughout the early middle ages, what we call “canon law” was far from being the organized, __________ system of law that the Catholic Church now follows. It took the work of many jurists to collect and systematize what had been an extremely __________ system of jurisprudence.

pious . . . corrupt

religious . . . secular

codified . . . ad hoc

ecclesiastical . . . civic

juridical . . . lackadaisical 

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