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Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, [#permalink] New post   07 Feb 2019, 11:21
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Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, and in his autobiography he reveals himself to possess an uncommonly ________ prose style as well.



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Re: Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, [#permalink] New post   02 Aug 2019, 02:31
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IMO question doesn't offer much, except the positive tone for the Alec, so diving straight into answers, option C and D have that; rest of choices are either neutral or negative.
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Re: Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, [#permalink] New post   09 Feb 2019, 14:21
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can you give some explanation? Which part of the question has the clue about his prose style?
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Re: Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2019, 02:59
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Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, and in his autobiography he reveals himself to possess an uncommonly ________ prose style as well.

the blue parts tell us that he is very good at something.

You can go by POE, considering that among the answer choices A-B-E-F are negative words. Which is not what we are looking for.

So, C and D are the right choices

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Re: Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, [#permalink] New post   01 Oct 2019, 23:25
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I agree. The only way to respond to this question is to understand the tone in the sentence and then eliminate options that don't match the tone.
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Re: Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, [#permalink] New post   19 Jun 2021, 20:41
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Seems like a wrong question. Felicitious and happy are words with extremely different meanings and also give the sentence different meanings
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Re: Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, [#permalink] New post   21 Jun 2021, 05:03
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Seems like a wrong question. Felicitious and happy are words with extremely different meanings and also give the sentence different meanings



Yes,you correct. But sometimes we have to choose the words that go together even though they are not similar in meaning 😉

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