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)
Sentence Equivalence Answers 1.
Steward, husband. The “While” indicates that the second part of the
sentence will contrast with pushing forward—due to the approaching winter,
the colonists need to stay put and conserve what they have. Only “steward”
and “husband” mean this. “Sell” and “peddle” don’t work because there’s
nothing in the sentence to indicate that they need to sell or buy anything. (And
why would you sell your resources when a hard winter is coming?) “Procure,”
which means get or acquire, doesn’t work because the sentence references
their “existing resources.” “Upend” also doesn’t work because of its meaning;
the colonists do not need to stand their resources on end!
2.
See, distinguish. This sentence is worded in a tricky way, as the words
“but” and “barely” negate each other. Thus, the blank parallels “saw deeply.”
(“Proof” here means proofread or edit, and galleys are drafts of a book about
to be published.) How ironic that an author who sees into the hearts of his
characters is practically blind in real life! “Interpret” is an attractive trap, but
Joyce had a vision problem, not an intellectual one. “Feel,” “walk,” and
“move” are not correct because they don’t mean to see.
3.
Capricious, fickle. The first part of the sentence describes a woman as
“less _________” at work “than she is around her friends,” “but” her staff at
work occasionally does see her “in a volatile state,” or a temperamental state
that is likely to change quickly. Given the “but,” the blank must be a synonym
for “volatile.” “Capricious” and “fickle” can both mean temperamental and
likely to change quickly and so are the correct answers. Although “direct” and
“explicit” form a pair, they are not synonyms for “volatile” and so are not
correct. “Informal” and “pretentious” also do not fit “volatile.”
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