sandy wrote:
The government’s implementation of a new code of ethics appeared intended to shore up the ruling party’s standing with an increasingly _________ electorate at a time when the party is besieged by charges that it trades favors for campaign money.
A) aloof
B) placid
C) restive
D) skittish
E) tranquil
F) vociferous
Practice Questions
Question: 7
Page: 70
Difficulty: hard
Read the sentence and look for contextual information.
The ruling party needs to build support from the _________ voters.
Unfortunately, there there isn't much contextual information provided to be certain of the "flavor" of the missing words.
For example, perhaps the voters are ANGRY (which would require the ruling party to shore up its standing)
Or perhaps the voters are UNDECIDED/UNCERTAIN (which would require the ruling party to shore up its standing)
So, among the answer choices,
A, C, D and F are all legitimate answers.
At this point, we must remember the directions for all Sentence Equivalence questions:
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence,
fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.So, for example, if it were the case that answer choice
A (aloof) is correct, then we'd need a second word
(among the answer choices) that is SYNONYMOUS with aloof.
Since there is no such similar word, we can ELIMINATE
AWhat about choice
C (restive)? Is there a second answer choice that is SYNONYMOUS with restive?
YES! Answer choice
D (skittish) is synonymous with restive.
So, C and D are great candidates.
What about choice
F (vociferous)? Is there a second answer choice that is SYNONYMOUS with vociferous?
Since there is no such similar word, we can ELIMINATE
FAnswer: C and D
Cheers,
Brent
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Brent Hanneson – Creator of greenlighttestprep.com
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