PP1 (Shorter) Verbal Section 1 (Medium) Q8

<p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#8e44ad;">Pairing Up</span></span></p> <p>First things first. We use the <strong>Pairing Strategy</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>Only One Pair</strong>:&nbsp;laconic/taciturn <ul> <li>In cases such as these, we don&#39;t even have to justify our answer with logic, but we should anyway. What if we made a mistake in pairing?</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>The words solicitous, munificent, irresolute, and fastidious have no pair, so we cross them out: <span style="color:#e74c3c;"><strike>solicitous</strike></span>, <span style="color:#e74c3c;"><s>munificent</s></span>, <span style="color:#e74c3c;"><s>irresolute</s></span>, and <span style="color:#e74c3c;"><s>fastidious</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 punctuation mark after the word &quot;different,&quot; the &quot;--,&quot; indicates that the two ideas support each other. The first idea says that these two people are really different. To maintain this logic, we need the opposite of the word &quot;garrulous&quot; for the blank. We can guess words like &quot;quiet&quot; or &quot;shy.&quot;</p> <p>The best match for these guesses is the pair <span style="color:#27ae60;">laconic/taciturn</span>.</p> <p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#e74c3c;">The Wrong Answers</span></span></p> <p>No other word has a synonym pair, so they&#39;re all wrong.</p>