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Here is sentence from the story. Choose the word from the bracket which can
be substituted for the italicised word in the sentence.
Five years later, the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin had American physicists in an
uproar. (in a state of commotion, full of criticism, in a desperate state)
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Solution
in a state of commotion .
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