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Re: Once voted the greatest living Irishwoman by her contemporar [#permalink]
please explain the sentence.
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Once voted the greatest living Irishwoman but then she was buried in a very poor state.

Once considered represents a contrast and here we need an opposite word of greatest.

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please explain the sentence.
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I think non of the options is work
it should buried in silence or in unbeknown
but poverty is out of scope
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for me I take stipulate
because I thought the sentence in these marks "" is her wish
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Re: Once voted the greatest living Irishwoman by her contemporar [#permalink]
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I think non of the options is work
it should buried in silence or in unbeknown
but poverty is out of scope
this is Official GRE 🤣🤣🤣🤣
for me I take stipulate
because I thought the sentence in these marks "" is her wish


Oh dear, I hope no one takes this comment seriously. To start, "buried in silence" and "buried in unbeknown" are not conventional English phrases, and the latter is grammatically incorrect!

Like others have said, the sentence structure implies that the missing word is a noun... Wilde is going to be buried in [some state/condition/location], therefore, a noun. "Stipulate" is a verb meaning "specify" so it's automatically out, the verb laud (praise) is out too, and scant (lacking) is an adjective, so it's out. Only two choices are left and only one of them is negative, making sense with "without fanfare (celebration)".
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Re: Once voted the greatest living Irishwoman by her contemporar [#permalink]
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Poverty makes the best sense, albeit figuratively.

Poverty goes well with "without fanfare—without name or record in soil to which she did not belong", apart from being the opposite of "greatest".
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