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Slicks of oil on a rain-soaked street are ____________ and [#permalink] New post   27 May 2017, 08:36
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Slicks of oil on a rain-soaked street are ____________ and beautiful, but the lovely rainbows they produce on the asphalt can seem rather ugly when one reflects upon the road hazards they create and the environmental damage they entail.

❑ anodyne

❑ iridescent

❑ monocoque

❑ pavonine

❑ parietal

❑ saturnine
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Re: Slicks of oil on a rain-soaked street are ____________ and [#permalink] New post   09 Jan 2021, 09:52
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The idea in the blank is to fill in with words that figure out the rainbow of a peacock's tail

However, iridescent and pavonine are not so similar as synonyms

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Slicks of oil on a rain-soaked street are ____________ and [#permalink] New post   16 Jan 2021, 23:32
Not related to the question, but does GRE questions ever have this hard options (difficult vocab)? :dazed
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Re: Slicks of oil on a rain-soaked street are ____________ and [#permalink] New post   17 Jan 2021, 01:38
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Well, we could have a debate about.

Maybe yes, maybe no

However, in my experience and opinion the real GRE ios about tough sentences in the meaning.

I.E To make it clear read the explanation I provided at this link of an official question 3 blanks

https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/the-narra ... html#p6352

Perhaps you will be surprised :blushing:

That is the REAl way the GRE works and how a student should attack a question

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