And I kind of miss it. But the only adventing this year is for the GRE. And I get a little giddy every time I think about it. I can't wait. Only because I want it over.
December 19
10 more days to stuff this obtuse brain of mine. (Ha! Take that verbal section. I'm throwing the vocab like a bucolic ascetic oscillating enigmatic dogma.)
And while I've been concerned about the math - last night's practice test proved that I have a few other problems.
I missed 5 out of the 10 verbal section questions. In particular - Antonyms - questions that require you to choose the opposite of a word given to you.
And I trick myself into answering incorrectly almost as often as I trick myself into the correction.
For example - let's take this little practice question (listed under easy, by the way). Okay what is the opposite of:
FRUSTRATE:
a. facilitate
b. moderate
c. climb
d. judge
e. assemble
The practice book warns to watch out for questions that are using a secondary definition of the stem word. (Frustrate is the stem here.) I was keeping that in mind when I answered this question. This. very. easy. question. Because I know what every word here means - I should have gotten it right.
I failed.
Now you try. And show me how obtuse my brain really is.
5 comments:
I would choose "facilitate." But I've never been good at standardized tests...
I always read questions like these too fast and go with my first choice then move on. I first chose moderate. But going back, I think it should be facilitate.
And your use of the word obtuse reminds me of that scene in Shawshank Redemption -- "Or am I being obtuse?"
I choose facilitate. Please let us know the answer! :)
a.
Yep! You all did your job. I am beyond obtuse. Thank you for proving it.
And, might I add that you all should take the GRE...if you haven't. Because you would do really well.
My guess? (drum roll) E. assemble
I know! you're thinking what??? But see, I was thinking of to frustrate - - as in to disrupt something (like blocks). And assemble seemed really, really opposite of that....
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