saeed12abd wrote:
james21 wrote:
Why can't the 'energetic work' of the activist support the assertion that the movements were predominant?
After all, a predominant movement ought to receive more attention and work.
Moreover, how does inimical relate to 'energetic work'? This question is ambivalent.
I agree with
james21. Also, there is no clues to realize that there should be some similarity between the two movements (as
amorphous mentioned there are no reasons to support the fact that the two movements are predominant)
I am really confused with some of the GRE questions

I completely disagree with this line of thought. ALWAYS the sentence has a clue even though our clue is feeble and super tiny
The activists’
energetic work in the service of both woman suffrage and the temperance movement in the late nineteenth century (i)__________ the assertion that the two movements were (ii)__________.
The words energetic work which works as a specific indication how the work was AND provides a context of the quality of the support to the woman at the time, makes our sentence or TOTALLY positive or TOTALLY negative.
I.E. the first and second blanks must go in the same direction. OR the two movements were akin OR were, in contrast, each other.
Now, in the FIRST blank clearly, C is out of scope. So everything boils down to A or B. However, we said that the two blanks must go in the same direction BUT B does not have a counterpart in the second blanks.
So the answer must be undermins and inimical.
ETS is very cunning and astute to craft similar question. If the students do not see it that does not mean the question is flawed.
Ask if somethinng is still unclear to you.
Regards
Thank you for the explanation, however, I never implied the question was flawed. All that examinees need to learn is to break into the test maker's mind and think in the same way that they do.
Frankly speaking, I severely disagree with your resolution (POE) since eliminating "predominant", because it is not a proper counterpart for "support", is not acceptable( in my opinion
). Although, by struggling a few more hours with the text (and myself), I realized that the only clue that we can grasp to justify the answer is "both" in the highlighted text you mentioned which states that