{"id":3558,"date":"2012-05-21T12:40:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:44:58","slug":"sentence-equivalence-try-this-problem-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/sentence-equivalence-try-this-problem-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentence Equivalence: Try This Problem Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The exhibit is not so much a retrospective as a __________ ; the artist&#8217;s weaker early work is glossed over and any evidence of his ultimate dissolution is absent entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Select <u>two<\/u> correct answers.<\/p>\n<p> paean<br \/>\n philippic<br \/>\n tirade<br \/>\n panacea<br \/>\n eulogy<br \/>\n crescendo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Note: When you see six answer choices and square checkboxes, that&#8217;s a clue that this is a GRE Sentence Equivalence problem, to which there will always be two correct answers.)<\/p>\n<p>Make your selections before reading any further!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n<p>A <em>retrospective<\/em> would be an exhibit that shows the history and progression of the artist&#8217;s work, but this exhibit only shows the good parts (it glosses over\u009d the weaker work and omits the artist&#8217;s dissolution\u009d).<\/p>\n<p>Thus, we need a word that has something to do with praising. <em>Paean<\/em> and <em>eulogy<\/em> are the only matches.<\/p>\n<p>Note that a paean is generally a song or speech of praise and is being used a bit metaphorically here. Many people only know eulogy as a speech given at a funeral, but can actually refer to any speech (or in this case, art exhibit) of praise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibit is not so much a retrospective as a __________ ; the artist&#8217;s weaker early work is glossed over and any evidence of his ultimate dissolution is absent entirely. Select two correct answers. paean philippic tirade panacea eulogy crescendo (Note: When you see six answer choices and square checkboxes, that&#8217;s a clue that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-sentence-equivalence","category-verbal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","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=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7102,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/7102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}