The sentence effectively says "explicitly sexist words have been dealt with, but _____ sexist words have not." You are therefore looking for a word that would mean the opposite of explicit (directly stated).

A. indistinctness. This word deals with a lack of something being clearly seperated (think constrast) from something else. This would be similar to a general neutral term and is therefore not what we are looking for.

B. Similitude. This word means "similar-ness." This is wrong for the same reasons as A.

C. Locquacity. This word means talkative and doesn't really relate to the question. It is effectively a "look at this GRE word" to trick people who are guessing and hoping the "big gre word" is the answer.

D. Implications. A form of the word "implicit" which means "not directly stated" or "not explicitly stated" and as my second definition implies, is the opposite of explicit. This is the word we are looking for.

E. Obscurity. Obscurity means unclear or uncertain and falls into the same problems with answers A and B in that used in the sentence it would give the idea that sexism still occures in how words are not able to be differentiated from one another.


The answer is D, implications. This is actually a somewhat difficult questions if you aren't looking at it from a "GRE persepctive" because a lot of these answers make sense if you were filling in the blank for a sentence that read "Sexism still thrives in the _____ of many words." As a GRE question though, you have to look at the entire question, where you will note that the sentence uses the structure "though ____, still _____" which means we are looking for a word that would contradict or be the opposite of the first blank. With the first "blank" in that structure already being filled by "explicit" we know what to look for. To make it a little more clear, you could throw in the word "still" after the word sexism (I would even argue if this was an actual ETS sentence it would be there).