Direction: Choose from among the alternatives given, the word which will substitute the underlined expression in each of the following questions and mark the same in your answer sheet.
(a) Though badly wounded he clung to his life with firm determination.
(1) tendency
(2) tenacity
(3) sustenance
(4) absteation
(b) He started the ***** without being incited by anger.
(1) abjected
(2) improvised
(3) provoked
(4) poverished
