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GRE 1: Q165 V161
Despite protestations to the contrary, Peyermessen had clearly
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Despite protestations to the contrary, Peyermessen had clearly ____________ complete sections of text from works that, while ____________, were not unknown to specialists in the field, who accused him of plagiarism.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
| omitted | dated |
| lifted | prominent |
| interpreted | uninformative |
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deepGRE wrote:
Can somebody please explain how come 'dated' fits the 2nd blank?
Hi deepGRE!
Let me try helping you on this one
Despite protestations to the contrary, Peyermessen had clearly ____________ complete sections of text from works that, while ____________, were not unknown to specialists in the field, who accused him of plagiarism.
The above highlighted are the clue for the sentence. We can try negating options, and then reach the correct one for the second blank.
For the first blank:
We know P plagarized / copied his work from somewhere else. So we need a word similar to copied
A) omitted- Does not match
(B) lifted
(C) interpreted- Does not match
Only lifted fits.
Moving to the second blank. For me I could not necessarily relate a clue for this part to refer to, but looking at the broad picture and eliminating the other options will help.
P has copied his work from somewhere (a source maybe not so well known to laymen or it could be popular) but they are not unknown to the specialist. So this means just because they are specialists they know it and the source is thus not a popular one. Therefore, we can use something like unpopular.
(D) dated
(E) prominent- Opposite
(F) uninformative- We do not have a reference to uninformative neither it is related to unpopular
We are only left with option D- dated, which means old fashioned or obsolete.
let me know if I can help you further!
Hope this helps!
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Answers: (B), (D)
’Accused him of plagiarism’ supports (B) lifted, for the first blank. (C) interpreted is not the same as plagiarism, which is actually the taking (or lifting) or text and trying to pass it off as one’s own. ‘Were not unknown to…’ matches up best with (D) dated.
We can simplify the part of the sentence around the second blank to this:
Even though the texts were __________, they were not unknown to specialists in the field.
So, the specialists still know about the texts. The best way to find this answer is to plug in the answer choices and see which one works best:
Even though the texts were prominent, they were not unknown to specialists in the field.
This doesn't work because if the texts were prominent, certainly the specialists would know about them. But the sentence states "even though," so this choice does not fit.
Even though the texts were uninformative, they were not unknown to specialists in the field.
At first, this looks like a slightly tempting answer choice. However, if we look elsewhere in the sentence, we see that Peyermessen was plagiarizing these texts--why would he plagiarize texts that are uninformative? Well, he most likely would not, and thus this is not the best answer choice.
This leaves us with "dated." Even though the texts were dated, they were not unknown to specialists in the field--So, even though the texts were old, specialists still knew about them. This answer choice is the best one.
’Accused him of plagiarism’ supports (B) lifted, for the first blank. (C) interpreted is not the same as plagiarism, which is actually the taking (or lifting) or text and trying to pass it off as one’s own. ‘Were not unknown to…’ matches up best with (D) dated.
We can simplify the part of the sentence around the second blank to this:
Even though the texts were __________, they were not unknown to specialists in the field.
So, the specialists still know about the texts. The best way to find this answer is to plug in the answer choices and see which one works best:
Even though the texts were prominent, they were not unknown to specialists in the field.
This doesn't work because if the texts were prominent, certainly the specialists would know about them. But the sentence states "even though," so this choice does not fit.
Even though the texts were uninformative, they were not unknown to specialists in the field.
At first, this looks like a slightly tempting answer choice. However, if we look elsewhere in the sentence, we see that Peyermessen was plagiarizing these texts--why would he plagiarize texts that are uninformative? Well, he most likely would not, and thus this is not the best answer choice.
This leaves us with "dated." Even though the texts were dated, they were not unknown to specialists in the field--So, even though the texts were old, specialists still knew about them. This answer choice is the best one.
