Critical Reading > Sentence Completions
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Enrique did not take Marisol seriously when she told him she was going to bed to sleep for a week: he knew she was prone to -------.
(A) earnestness
(B) belligerence
(C) simile
(D) hyperbole
(E) understatement