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The results of a survey of movie-goers gainsaid the scholar
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The results of a survey of movie-goers gainsaid the scholar’s claim that the filmmakers’ intent would remain opaque to most viewers; it seems the metaphors employed were rather _______.
A. perspicuous
B. abstruse
C. manifest
D. aesthetic
E. cryptic
F. recalcitrant
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A and C
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07 Sep 2017, 18:48
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Gainsaid means contradicted, so the words that will fill in the blank will roughly mean transparent. Abstruse and cryptic both mean difficult to understand, so eliminate choices (B) and (E). Neither aesthetic, which means concerned with beauty, nor recalcitrant, which means resistant to authority, fits the meaning you need; eliminate choices (D) and (F). Both perspicuous and manifest can mean easily understood, so choices (A) and (C) produce logical sentences with the same meaning.
Hence options A and C are correct!
Gainsaid means contradicted, so the words that will fill in the blank will roughly mean transparent. Abstruse and cryptic both mean difficult to understand, so eliminate choices (B) and (E). Neither aesthetic, which means concerned with beauty, nor recalcitrant, which means resistant to authority, fits the meaning you need; eliminate choices (D) and (F). Both perspicuous and manifest can mean easily understood, so choices (A) and (C) produce logical sentences with the same meaning.
Hence options A and C are correct!
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18 Jul 2025, 09:55
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