Reading & WritingChapter 4: Words in Context
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4-3: Suggest versus prove?
💡Recall the degree rule before revealing the answer.
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Suggest presents a possibility; prove establishes with conclusive support.
ExampleApply this distinction to the next Precision in Word Choice passage.
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4-3: Reduce versus eliminate?
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Reduce makes less; eliminate removes entirely.
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4-3: Question versus reject?
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Question raises doubt; reject declines to accept.
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4-3: Consistent versus identical?
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Consistent means compatible or following a pattern; identical means exactly the same.
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4-3: What does complicate a claim do?
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Shows that the claim needs more nuance; it does not necessarily refute it.
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4-3: What does extend an account do?
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Applies or develops it beyond its original case.
ExampleApply this distinction to the next Precision in Word Choice passage.
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4-3: Why check collocation?
💡Recall the usage rule before revealing the answer.
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A related word may not naturally combine with the sentence's object or express the intended relationship.
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4-3: Certainty ladder starting point?
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A useful rough order is suggest, indicate, demonstrate—always calibrated by the actual context.
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4-3: What does qualify a claim mean?
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Limit its scope or make it less absolute.
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4-3: What makes one synonym best?
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It alone preserves relationship, degree, scope, stance, and natural usage.
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4-3: What official skill contains this topic?
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Craft and Structure → Words in Context. The topic is an internal teaching subdivision.
ExampleApply this distinction to the next Precision in Word Choice passage.
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4-3: What are the two official item forms?
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Determine a high-utility word's contextual meaning, or choose the most logical and precise word or phrase for a blank.
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4-3: What is this topic's focus?
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Exact lexical relationship, strength, scope, and usage.
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4-3: What should you predict?
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Name direction and degree before comparing close synonyms.
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4-3: Name the main trap.
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Choosing a related word that overstates or understates the evidence.
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4-3: What should difficulty come from?
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Contextual complexity, polysemy, and semantic precision—not deliberately obscure vocabulary.
ExampleApply this distinction to the next Precision in Word Choice passage.
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4-3: Why are synonyms not automatically interchangeable?
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They can differ in degree, scope, connotation, relationship, register, or collocation.
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4-3: Context versus roots?
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Roots may suggest possibilities, but context determines the answer.
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4-3: What does the global check ask?
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Does the candidate preserve the larger passage's meaning, tone, and relationship?
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4-3: What is the ambiguity rule?
💡Recall the validation rule before revealing the answer.
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If two choices fit with equal precision, the item needs stronger context or revised options.
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