{"id":1071,"date":"2010-10-01T06:41:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T11:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:52","slug":"three-letter-words-ken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/three-letter-words-ken\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Letter Words: Ken"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"definition\"Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive. Who doesn’t see PAN : REVIEW and metaphorically scratch his or her head, or wonder what, exactly, a nib\u009d or a gin\u009d is on its own? Welcome to Three-Letter Words<\/a>. A few of them might make you want to deploy some four-letter words.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ken isn’t just Barbie’s boyfriend. Ken<\/A> means knowledge, understanding, or perception. It often occurs in the expression “beyond my ken.”<\/p>\n

Don’t confuse ken<\/i> with kin<\/A>, meaning family or relatives.<\/p>\n

Choose your own answer before clicking “more”:<\/p>\n

As a scholar of Chinese dynasties and governments, three thousand years of history was well within his ken; even those who criticized his conclusions had to admit that his ___________ was _____________.<\/p>\n

A. legerdemain … arcane
\nB. erudition … estimable
\nC. pedantry … prodigious
\nD. perspicacity … wan
\nE. sagacity … tantamount<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

We need words that mean “learning” and “impressive,” respectively. B is the only match. “Estimable” can mean “capable of being estimated, but more commonly means “worthy of esteem.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive. Who doesn’t see PAN : REVIEW and metaphorically scratch his or her head, or wonder what, exactly, a nib\u009d or a gin\u009d is on its own? Welcome to Three-Letter Words. A few of them might make you want to deploy some four-letter words. Ken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}