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Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand [#permalink] New post   29 Jun 2020, 13:14
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Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand how so many of her fellow museumgoers could pretend to _____ its meaning, when to her its message was so opaque.


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obscure
disregard
comprehend
disparage
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fathom
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Re: Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand [#permalink] New post   29 Jun 2020, 13:14
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Re: Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand [#permalink] New post   02 Jul 2020, 03:52
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Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand how so many of her fellow museumgoers could pretend to _____ its meaning, when to her its message was so opaque.


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disregard
comprehend
disparage
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The clues in this sentence are meaning, message, and opaque. So This means Edna could understand the meaning of something very clearly and comprehend and fathom means understand. Thus C and E are the correct answers.
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Re: Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand [#permalink] New post   09 Jul 2020, 16:33
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Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand how so many of her fellow museumgoers could pretend to _____ its meaning, when to her its message was so opaque.


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obscure
disregard
comprehend
disparage
ignore
fathom


Taking on the pairing answers strategy,
[*]obscure - no true pair, disregard could be argued as "equivalent" but definitely not a great pair
[*]disregard
[*]comprehend
[*]disparage - a little too extreme, no pair
[*]ignore
[*]fathom

Going to the sentence, we learn that "Edna couldn't understand..." At first thought, it already looks like it is going to be related to "comprehension". We see (C) comprehend and (E) fathom looking promising. Reading the rest of the sentence to double-check, we see that Edna can't seem to understand why all these other museum-goers just "could pretend to ________ its meaning" when she thought it was so "opaque" - or hard to understand. This confirmed (C) and (E) as correct.
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Re: Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand [#permalink] New post   29 Jul 2020, 04:43
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The sentence said that for Edna is it strange that people pretend to ..., when for Edna the message is opaque (this means that the message is difficult to understand). So the blank word has to mean something related with understand. Comprehend and fathom are good options.
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Re: Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand [#permalink] New post   20 Aug 2020, 02:38
Opaque meaning is not clear, we should identify the opposite of Opaque, which are Comprehend & Fathom
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Re: Staring at the abstract painting, Edna could not understand [#permalink] New post   08 Oct 2020, 20:25
For edna it was opaque so others would have understood it so comprehend and fathom are the options
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