PP1 (Shorter) Verbal Section 1 (Medium) Q6

<p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#8e44ad;">Pairing Up</span></span></p> <p>First things first. We use the <strong><span style="color:#8e44ad;">Pairing Strategy</span></strong> to identify any synonym pairs among the six answer choices. There are usually two, sometimes one, sometimes three. We call the &quot;triple pair&quot; the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Sxxibos-I" target="_blank">Great White Buffalo</a>.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Pair 1</strong>:&nbsp;craft/cunning</li> <li><strong>Pair 2</strong>: innocence/na&iuml;vet&eacute;</li> </ul> <p>The words astonishment and vexation are NOT a pair, so we cross them out: <span style="color:#e74c3c;"><s>astonishment</s></span>&nbsp;and <span style="color:#e74c3c;"><s>vexation</s></span>.</p> <p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#27ae60;">The Right Answer</span></span></p> <p>Use <strong><span style="color:#8e44ad;">Math Strategy</span></strong> here. The phrase &quot;in fact&quot; indicates that there is a contrast between two ideas in the sentence. The contrast is between the critics&#39; perceptions of Emily Dickinson&#39;s poetry and the reality of the situation. These critics perceived Emily Dickinson as &quot;artless,&quot; which means unskilled. The contrast of that is &quot;skilled.&quot;</p> <p>The best match for this guess is the pair <span style="color:#27ae60;">craft/cunning</span>.</p> <p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#e74c3c;">The Wrong Answer</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">innocence/na&iuml;vet&eacute;</span>: We have <strong>no evidence</strong> whether Emily Dickinson was &quot;innocent&quot; or &quot;not innocent.&quot; Also, it doesn&#39;t really make sense to &quot;construct&quot; something with &quot;innocence.&quot;&nbsp;</li> </ul>