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Draped in (i)________ scarlet robes, the lawyers of the Vict [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 02 Aug 2019, 11:52
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Draped in (i)________ scarlet robes, the lawyers of the Victorian court of law did indeed appear intimidating; yet the discomfort of the heavy robes that lent such dignity to their wearers was (ii)___________ the discomfort caused by the towering woolen wigs that judges alone had the unfortunate privilege to wear.


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artistic commensurate to
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Re: Draped in (i)________ scarlet robes, the lawyers of the Vict [#permalink] New post   02 Aug 2019, 04:27
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Only option that matches the blank (i) is Magisterial as the lawyers of Victorian court appear intimidating. The second blank is contradicted by the word yet. So, the discomfort of heavy robes is less sever that that of woollen wigs. So Eclipsed by fits here.
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Re: Draped in (i)________ scarlet robes, the lawyers of the Vict [#permalink] New post   02 Aug 2019, 11:55
I'm not a huge fan of the way that this Kaplan question uses "eclipsed". Eclipse should be used when someone's deprived of prominence, or power, or generally something that people strive for, like "The movie star's fame eclipsed his own."

Outweighed would have been a better choice here for them.
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Re: Draped in (i)________ scarlet robes, the lawyers of the Vict [#permalink] New post   02 Aug 2019, 11:56
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Re: Draped in (i)________ scarlet robes, the lawyers of the Vict [#permalink] New post   15 Aug 2019, 09:43
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Commensurate to also seems to work okay here. I wish that there was more of an indication in the sentence of how the judges disliked the robes, showing that the discomfort was more important to them than the prestige.
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