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Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest satirizes the [#permalink] New post  29 May 2017, 06:27
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Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest satirizes the ____________ nature of upper crust British society; its characters take trivial concerns seriously while thoughtlessly dismissing important ones.

Blank (i)
(A) maladaptive
(B) insincere
(C) unusual
(D) insignificant
(E) shallow
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Re: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest satirizes the [#permalink] New post  09 Oct 2017, 18:07
Can you please explain why the blank is 'shallow' instead of 'unusual'?
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Re: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest satirizes the [#permalink] New post  17 Oct 2017, 09:13
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Can you please explain why the blank is 'shallow' instead of 'unusual'?


Because shallow means superficial and it is the best fit given the fact that it is said that the characters give importance to trivial concerns and dismiss important ones.

Unusual is not completely wrong but it is not supported by the sentence
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Re: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest satirizes the [#permalink] New post  11 Aug 2020, 12:23
Wouldn't maladaptive actually be the most fitting choice here? Since they are responding to circumstances poorly?
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Re: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest satirizes the [#permalink] New post  12 Aug 2020, 06:25
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JoonHwang wrote:
Wouldn't maladaptive actually be the most fitting choice here? Since they are responding to circumstances poorly?

maladaptive is extreme.
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