What does 'detestable' mean in the poem?
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Correct answer: B. Contemptible
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Detestable means deserving hatred or contempt.
Note: Passage I is Edna St. Vincent Millay's 'Apostrophe to Man' (1934), which is copyrighted and not reproduced. It savagely 'congratulates' humankind on breeding, crowding and making war, with bombers, explosives and death sold for profit, and ends by urging the 'detestable race' to expunge itself and die out.
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