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why not massive ?
imprudent means not showing care for the consequence of ones action
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We talk about of risk of investment. So, we do need a valuation from a prudent or imprudent standing point. I.E the investment is risky or NOT if it is massive from the AMOUNT (total money) standing point.

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While the cost of migrating to more automated piloting and air traffic control systems is substantial, the eventual cost savings are large enough that the up-front expenditures are not as ______ as opponents claim.



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Could you please explain why massive does not fit.

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Could you please explain why massive does not fit.

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when you talk about costs they are excessive or tiny or not substantial....massive refers to processes (massive scale) or other things such as mountains.

The chain of Alps is massive
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I still don't understand, in text completions aren't the two words we are seeking to find supposed to be synonymous...
You're saying in this case excessive and massive are NOT synonymous?
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Not all the time or 100% of time .

According to the official SE question, which are those count and nothing else, USUALLY in SE question you do have two pairs of choices that are synonyms and two other words out of scope, for a grand total of 6 answer choices.

However, this does not happen ALL the time . Moreover, the ETS GRE instructions tell us that the two words to fit in the blank must be ALIKE in meaning.

I.E they must give the same meaning to the sentence as a whole. There are cases in which you do have tow words which are NOt synonyms that give to the sentence the same meaning. The vast majority are synonyms BUT not all the time.

BTW, this is NOT an offoicia question for that count

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While the cost of migrating to more automated piloting and air traffic control systems is substantial, the eventual cost savings are large enough that the up-front expenditures are not as ________as opponents claim.


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A. fiscal
B. imprudent
C. reasonable
D. excessive
E. massive
F. paltry
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Because this sentence starts with the word “While…” in a modifier, you should immediately start looking for the portion after the comma to contradict the first half of the sentence. The first half talks about the substantial cost of the project, so in the second half you want two words that show that the cost is justified, or that in context it’s not as high as it seems.That should lead you to choices B, D, and E, where the real work begins. Because “imprudent” connotes “too much money” and “excessive” suggests the same, those are the correct answers, B and D. Both of them show that while the price is high, it’s not too high given the large costs savings that will result from them.
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hey, shouldnt it be massive and excessive?
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Here the simple concept is that after all the cost saving are > of the expenditure.

In simple words, we save money or we do not spend too much money.

Massive is used for big things usually.

We do not spend massive money

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Excessive and imprudent are correct, even though massive is tempting. The reason massive is not correct is that opponents aren't really arguing that the costs are massive, just that they're high in comparison to the benefits. Costs can STILL be massive, but if the savings realized are greater, then they're no longer excessive and imprudent. I think here we're looking for a word that compares the costs to the savings (excessive and imprudent), not one that only describes the costs on their own (massive).

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Main thing to consider here is that the blank word holds a negative connotation.

Massive is factual (neither negative or positive connotation here and already mentioned in the first line of the argument)

Both excessive and imprudent (bad judgement regarding the investment) are words with negative connotation.
Hope that makes it clear.
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I still don't understand, in text completions aren't the two words we are seeking to find supposed to be synonymous...
You're saying in this case excessive and massive are NOT synonymous?


That is not the case for every situation. I came across some explanations saying that being able to fit into the sentence is far more important than seeking to find perfect pairs in such questions.
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Main thing to consider here is that the blank word holds a negative connotation.

Massive is factual (neither negative or positive connotation here and already mentioned in the first line of the argument)

Both excessive and imprudent (bad judgement regarding the investment) are words with negative connotation.
Hope that makes it clear.


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