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I Suspicious Started Sceptical Computers Thinking Guilty Wrong

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Keyword suspicious
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence Before I actually started to use one, I was suspicious about the value of computers.
Correct Sentence Before I actually started to use one, I was sceptical about the value of computers.
Cloze Error Sentence Before I actually started to use one, I was [[suspicious]] about the value of computers.
Cloze Sentence Before I actually started to use one, I was [[sceptical]] about the value of computers.
Cloze Answer sceptical
Choices suspicious | sceptical
Explanation

suspicious = thinking that someone may be guilty of doing something wrong: 'I started to get suspicious when he refused to tell me where he had been.'

sceptical = tending not to believe what people say about something: 'Many doctors remain highly sceptical about the value of alternative medicine.'

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