275. Place-names can be strikingly ______ : there is, for example, nothing particularly about the town of Peculiar, MIssouri.
A. expedient, eccentric
B. descriptive, controversial
C. inimitable, incongruous
D. comical, ludicrous
E. inapt, odd
276. Such was Norton's generosity that he was at times criticized for being ______ to a fault.
A. nonchalant
B. magnanimous
C. scrupulous
D. discerning
E. substantial