<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 "triple pair" the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Sxxibos-I" target="_blank">Great White Buffalo</a>.</p>
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<li><strong>Pair 1</strong>: craft/cunning</li>
<li><strong>Pair 2</strong>: innocence/naïveté</li>
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<p>The words astonishment and vexation are NOT a pair, so we cross them out: <span style="color:#e74c3c;"><s>astonishment</s></span> 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 "in fact" indicates that there is a contrast between two ideas in the sentence. The contrast is between the critics' perceptions of Emily Dickinson's poetry and the reality of the situation. These critics perceived Emily Dickinson as "artless," which means unskilled. The contrast of that is "skilled."</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>
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<li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">innocence/naïveté</span>: We have <strong>no evidence</strong> whether Emily Dickinson was "innocent" or "not innocent." Also, it doesn't really make sense to "construct" something with "innocence." </li>
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