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In her recent book Palmeriste: A Biography, Sklar argues [#permalink] New post   15 Sep 2017, 18:12
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In her recent book Palmeriste: A Biography, Sklar argues that Palmeriste was a connoisseur of many things, rather than a dilettante; Brand believes this is a _______ distinction, obscuring the more relevant question of where exactly he got all of his money.
A. critical
B. cardinal
C. nice
D. baleful
E. minute
F. feckless

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Re: In her recent book Palmeriste: A Biography, Sklar argues [#permalink] New post   27 Sep 2017, 13:20
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Re: In her recent book Palmeriste: A Biography, Sklar argues [#permalink] New post   28 Sep 2017, 04:13
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Sir if you can put the meaning and in what context these words are used then it would be beneficial for the other readers as well.

Moreover the answers are already mentioned in the "Spoiler: OA"
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Re: In her recent book Palmeriste: A Biography, Sklar argues [#permalink] New post   03 Oct 2017, 15:00
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Brand believes that the distinction obscures a more relevant question, so the word in the blank must mean something consistent with not relevant. Baleful means dangerous, and feckless means incompetent or irresponsible, neither of which are close to not relevant. Critical and cardinal both mean important, so those words are the opposite of what you’re looking for.

The correct answers here rely on secondary definitions of the words nice and minute. Both of these words can be used to mean so small as to be insignificant.

Hence options C and E fit!
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Re: In her recent book Palmeriste: A Biography, Sklar argues [#permalink] New post   31 May 2021, 22:58
Going by the POE:
We can see that the author mention more relevant question so the distinction is not relevant
A,B are eliminated
D,F do not mean irrelevant and are not pair
So C,E is the answer.
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