<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 "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>Only One Pair</strong>: laconic/taciturn
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<li>In cases such as these, we don't even have to justify our answer with logic, but we should anyway. What if we made a mistake in pairing?</li>
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<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 "different," the "--," 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 "garrulous" for the blank. We can guess words like "quiet" or "shy."</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're all wrong.</p>