Manhattan Prep - 5 Lb. Book of Gre Practice Problems 1,800 Practice Problems in Book and Online (Manhattan Prep 5 lb Series (2019 Edition))-Manhattan Prep (2019)
Erroneously, unbeknownst. Since the peanut is not really a nut (it is a
legume), it is being erroneously, or mistakenly, referred to as such. “Deftly” is
the opposite of what the sentence suggests, and “archaically” would mean that
the peanut used to be referred to as a nut. “Unbeknownst to” means unknown
by, which would explain why people are making this mistake. “Abhorrent” is
too strong of a term for this sentence, nor does the sentence indicate that
anyone is disgusted by peanuts. “Consanguineous” comes from the latin roots
con- (with) and sanguis (blood) to mean of the same blood or related: it’s hard
to be blood-related to something that has no blood!
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Tremulous, chary of. All of the clues in the sentence are about being
scared, so “tremulous” matches best in blank (i). Neither “coltish” (playful)
nor “cumbersome” (complicated, hard to handle) fix the meaning of the
sentence. The sentence states that the child finds diving even more frightening
than water in general, so “chary of ” (suspicious or slightly scared of), a less
extreme version of frightening, fits. “Repulsed by” is too strong of a word for
blank (ii) and “beguiled by” would mean the child was deceived by the water.
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Sentries, fecund, progeny. The sentence states that solider ants guard the
colony and supply it with food, “thus acting as both _________ and laborers.”
In this sentence pattern, the first blank matches up with “guard the colony”
and “laborers” matches up with “supply it with food.” “Sentries,” or guards,
matches perfectly and is the correct word for blank (i). A “sage” is a wise
scholar and a “sycophant” is a lackey or flatterer, neither of which fits the
meaning of the sentence. The sentence then states that the queen can
continually “populate the colony,” so “fecund” (fertile) goes in blank (ii) and
progeny (offspring) goes in blank (iii). “Efficacious” means effective and
“imperius” means domineering, but the sentence does not indicate that this
would describe the queen ant. “Forebears” means ancestors, which is the
opposite of what blank (iii) requires. Finally, “harbingers” means a herald or a
forerunner of something else, but producing signs of something else would
not help to populate a colony.
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