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Re: While more (i)____________ professors continue to insist that video ga [#permalink]
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Sometimes the students focus on too much on clues forgetting to have the big pictures.

Clues and shifts are an important tool. However it is more important to have the meaning of the sentence.

What we do have here :

On one hand we have professors who think X and professors who think U

But both are academics. Therefore erudite is off because regardless what they say BOTH have culture, knowledge....and so forth. They are professors, and as such, they are already erudite

We need for the first blank a word that is an adjective to highlight the quality of the professors who think X. And this word is pedantic

Some professors are pedantic to think videogames could be object of study. Others think different

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Thank you Carcass. This does help. In retrospect, my choice boiled to something like ..scholarly scholar.. which is obviously nonsensical.
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This is a two-blank Text Completion question, so determine which blank is easier. Try starting with the first blank. Determine who/what the blank in the sentence is describing. The first blank describes certain professors. Now determine what else gives insight into the word for the blank. The passage states that the professors insist that video games will never be a proper object of study. The transition word [w]hile also indicates that these professors are different from more heterodox academics. The opposite of heterodox academics would be ā€œorthodox,ā€ so thatā€™s a good word for the blank describing the professors. Choice (A), pedantic, meaning scholarly in a narrow-minded way, is a good match for the blank so keep (A). Progressive and erudite may describe professors generally, but do not match the word for the blank, so eliminate (B) and (C). Now work with the second blank. Determine who/what the blank in the sentence is describing. The second blank describes how the rising generation views the opinions of their pedantic colleagues.

Now determine what else gives insight into the word for the blank. The sentence describes the rising generation as more heterodox, so they likely see these views as ā€œoverly conservative.ā€ Choice (D), antediluvian, which means oldfashioned, is a good match so keep (D). Choice (E), pusillanimous, and (F), jejune, are both poor matches for the blank, so eliminate (E) and (F).
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We actually have another definition for pedantic which is unimaginative. Being fussy is the other definition. So pedantic fits best

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