GRE Prep Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Even the most accomplished performers at times have difficulty with s
[#permalink]
29 Dec 2022, 11:40
29 Dec 2022, 11:40
Expert Reply
00:00
Question Stats:
25% (00:40) correct
74% (00:56) wrong based on 35 sessions
Hide Show timer Statistics
Even the most accomplished performers at times have difficulty with some of Rachmaninoff’s more perilous passages—the composer seems often to have written his music with the deliberate intent to _________ .
| Two Answers |
|---|
| A. confound |
| B. unnerve |
| C. transmute | D. transmogrify | E. distribute |
| F. malign |
Re: Even the most accomplished performers at times have difficulty with s
[#permalink]
31 Dec 2022, 05:00
31 Dec 2022, 05:00
Expert Reply
OE
Very experienced performers have so much difficulty with some of Rachmaninoff’s “more perilous [difficult] passages” that it sometimes seems as though the music was intentionally designed to [blank]. The blank must mean something like confuse or cause people to struggle. “Confound” means confuse and so is a good match. “Unnerve,” which means to cause someone to lose confidence, also works. “Transmute” and “transmogrify” both mean to transform, which doesn’t mean difficult. Neither “distribute” nor “malign” (say bad things about or slander) has a match and so cannot be correct.
Very experienced performers have so much difficulty with some of Rachmaninoff’s “more perilous [difficult] passages” that it sometimes seems as though the music was intentionally designed to [blank]. The blank must mean something like confuse or cause people to struggle. “Confound” means confuse and so is a good match. “Unnerve,” which means to cause someone to lose confidence, also works. “Transmute” and “transmogrify” both mean to transform, which doesn’t mean difficult. Neither “distribute” nor “malign” (say bad things about or slander) has a match and so cannot be correct.
gmatclubot
Re: Even the most accomplished performers at times have difficulty with s [#permalink]
31 Dec 2022, 05:00
Moderators:
