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Most viewers of today’s reality television underestimate the degree of _________ with which the seemingly artless narrative of each episode is assembled: oftentimes, actors interviewed on camera are asked to repeat their story half a dozen times before producers are satisfied.
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| A. dramaturgy |
| B. opportunism |
| C. fallacy | D. contrivance | E. histrionics |
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This blank takes its clue from the phrase “seemingly artless.” As is often the case in GRE questions, the word “seemingly” should set you up to be thinking of an opposite to “artless,” which means genuine, not artificial. In this case, then, you want a word that denotes something deliberately constructed or fabricated: something contrived. The other options denote opinions that might be assigned to reality television, but “dramaturgy” (the practice of dramatic composition), “opportunism” (exploitation), “fallacy” (misconception), and “histrionics” (theatrics) are not antonyms of artless and are therefore incorrect.
This blank takes its clue from the phrase “seemingly artless.” As is often the case in GRE questions, the word “seemingly” should set you up to be thinking of an opposite to “artless,” which means genuine, not artificial. In this case, then, you want a word that denotes something deliberately constructed or fabricated: something contrived. The other options denote opinions that might be assigned to reality television, but “dramaturgy” (the practice of dramatic composition), “opportunism” (exploitation), “fallacy” (misconception), and “histrionics” (theatrics) are not antonyms of artless and are therefore incorrect.
Most viewers of todays reality television underestimate the degree of
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Most viewers of today’s reality television underestimate the degree of _________ with which the seemingly artless narrative of each episode is assembled: oftentimes, actors interviewed on camera are asked to repeat their story half a dozen times before producers are satisfied.
The word artless means guileless, without deception, natural. The word seemingly suggests the opposite of artless. And further, the sentence fragment after the colon, which describes what comes before the colon, suggests something artificially constructed. Thus the correct word is contrivance.
The word artless means guileless, without deception, natural. The word seemingly suggests the opposite of artless. And further, the sentence fragment after the colon, which describes what comes before the colon, suggests something artificially constructed. Thus the correct word is contrivance.
