{"id":2780,"date":"2012-03-19T16:56:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T20:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:45:07","slug":"flashcard-sneak-peek-a-hodgepodge-of-words-for-an-olio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/flashcard-sneak-peek-a-hodgepodge-of-words-for-an-olio\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashcard Sneak Peek: A HodgePodge of Words for an Olio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a sneak peek into Manhattan Prep’s 500 Essential Words<\/A> and 500 Advanced Words<\/A> GRE flashcard sets!<\/p>\n

Our cards have a LOT of synonyms. If you learned everything on our 1,000 flashcards, you’d certainly be learning more than 2,000 words. Check out all the words for a mixture or mishmash of things!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Try this GRE question that hinges on hodgepodge<\/i>:<\/p>\n

\nWhile the author’s first collection of short stories presented a ________ hodgepodge of voices, the second collection presents a remarkably _________ set of tales presented by a ________ narrator.<\/p>\n

\n
\n

motley<\/p>\n

variegated<\/p>\n

homogeneous\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

insightful<\/p>\n

even<\/p>\n

facetious\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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lonely<\/p>\n

disingenuous<\/p>\n

sole\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This question is an excellent lesson in the principle, “Don’t add anything to your reading of the sentence that wasn’t there already.” What were we told? Just that the first short story collection had many diverse voices, and the second collection has “a ________ narrator” — in other words, just one speaker.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we DON’T know that the stories or narrator are insightful, facetious, lonely,<\/i> or disingenuous<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The answers are: motley, even, sole.<\/em><\/p>\n

Want to adopt 1,000 new flashcards? Visit our store here<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take a sneak peek into Manhattan Prep’s 500 Essential Words and 500 Advanced Words GRE flashcard sets! Our cards have a LOT of synonyms. If you learned everything on our 1,000 flashcards, you’d certainly be learning more than 2,000 words. Check out all the words for a mixture or mishmash of things! Try this GRE […]<\/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-2780","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\/2780","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=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}