I don't see the passage, but the meaning of inept is
A clumsy, incompetent person — or an ineffective action — is inept. When you're inept, you don't know what you're doing or just can't get it done.
Someone inept is bumbling, clueless, and ineffective.
Inept people are dumb or clueless; they don't understand things.
More
than that, inept people are bad at what they do. An inept lawyer always
loses cases.
An inept figure skater wipes out on the ice. An inept
postal worker loses mail and puts it in the wrong box.
An inept person
is downright bad at something. The opposite of inept is competent.
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The Communists in the State Department speech was given on February 9th 1950
THE ANSWER FOR UR QUESTION IS
B,C AND D CAN BE EASILY FOUND IN PAPER DICTIONARIES
BUT FOR A IT IS NOT REALLY THAT USEFUL COMPARED TO B ....
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Answer:
George Washinton was the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
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