Unleash Your Word Power : The Craft of Constructing Meaning With Context

1. Introduction to the Course: My name is Adrian and I will be leading you through this course. I began my career as an engineer, but soon transitioned into the learning and development sector. But I became the youngest institutional design. Currently, I work as a freelance coach and an Instructional Designer with some of the best and the most talented instructional designers in the country with more than 20 years of experience in the learning and development sector. I've mentored around 75 thousand students across the globe. I'm also be a guest faculty at several top-notch to be schools in the country. By the end of this course, you will learn how to identify action words and context clue words in the sentence. To predict your own answer, and also help to eliminate answer options that are out of context. We will be teaching you the four-step simple formula, which is I identify simplified, predict an element. Together we will walk you through the entire process step-by-step. There are no requirements necessary to enroll. We only request that you come open-minded protocols. Fatal. Take a look through the post distribution and we look forward to seeing you inside. 2. ISPE - 4 Step Plan to Unleash Your Word Power: Hello everybody. In this chapter, we're going to look at some presentation points for the ISP four-step action plan. Let's get started. I stands for identify. What are we going to identify here? We're going to identify the direction words in the sentence. So normally the direction words make up the skeleton of the whole sentence. And even if one of these words is out of place, it could change the whole meaning of the sentence. So this is some direction words are extremely important in the sentence. Let's look at the context clues. This is also what we are going to identify. Now, identifying these contexts clues is again very critical to understanding the simplified meaning of the given sentence. So always remember that in a particular sentence, you will identify the direction words and the context clue words. Once you identify the direction words and contexts chlorides. Next, we're going to simplify the given sentence. Now the simplified sentence will generally have the main ideas, restate it in a very simple way. You might have a very long question. Now that whole question, we're going to restate that in a very simple way. Using the context clues in the direction word. When you're restating the simplified sentence, you only include the essential information and leave all the non-essential information. So anything like examples or anything like parenthesis, numbers, dates, all these things we could exclude because it's clearly not important to understand the sentence. This would form the simplified version of the sentence. Once we have the simplified version of the sentence ready, we're going to predict our own answer. Now it's always a better idea to cover up the answer choices and then come out with their own answer, then predict your own answer. Because only by covering up the answer choices, you are clearly focused on the sentence. If you look at the answer options and then try to decide, then probably you might be judged by the answer options, right? So it's always advisable to predict your own answer without even looking at the answer options. When you're predicting your answer options. One option would be more than enough. You can either come out with a word or you can come up with a phrase, right? The whole idea is to check if you have adequately understood the context. So as long as you predict in the context, it shouldn't be a problem. Once you have this predicted version of your answer ready. Next, you're going to use that answer to eliminate options from the given question. Now, we're going to eliminate options that don't match with the answer that we have in mind, right? Once we have a clear understanding of the sentence, It's keywords and your answer. Then you can begin considering eliminating the answer options one by one. You can discard those answer options which don't make any sense, and then find the two answer options with three, which creates anonymous sentences. Those two answer options are going to be our final answer. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 3. Direction Words - Adding to the Context: Hello there. Welcome back to this chapter on direction words, functions with examples. In this chapter, we're going to look at many Direction words. We'll also look at good look at their functions and we're going to look at certain examples. Let's get started. First, we're going to see some examples and the function of the addition direction word. So first of all, the adhesion direction words are meant to add what has been previously stated. Let's look at some examples. Also, I believed the man was evil. This word, this direction we're, clearly tells us something about the man which was clearly negative. Also, I believe the man was evil. So this is adding onto the previous idea. If the previous idea is positive, this idea is going to be positive. The previous idea is negative. This idea is going to be negative. Right? Let's look at the second example. I allowed her smile. This is a positive idea and I treasured her touch. This is also a positive idea. You can clearly see how and connects to positive ideas in the same sentence. Let's look at the third example. In addition, inadequate insulation is responsible for heat loss, which probably meant that there was another problem which is responsible in addition to that, inadequate installation is another problem responsible for heat loss. Let's look at example four. Additionally, the smoke was carcinogenic. So when you say additionally, the smoke was carcinogenic, clearly meant that certain other features, negative features of the smoke was clearly listed earlier. Additionally, the smoke turned out to be carcinogenic. Carcinogenic would mean cancerous. Let's go to example five. Besides, I could not afford the blue cabinet. So look at this when you have besides, it clearly means that earlier you had some particular version and now you could not afford the blue cabinet. Let's look at the sixth example. Not to mention, more people die from cow attacks than shock and counters, right? So this is also going to give you additional information of all people generally die. 4. Direction Words - Contrast: Let's look at the second direction word, which is contradictory ideas. The sentence, the function would be to show how things are extremely different. This is the work of the contradictory direction word. Let's look at some examples. Despite this, she loved him, which clearly indicates that there was something negative. And despite that negative, she loved him, which is clearly a positive idea. So this is how the world will connect to positive ideas and a negative idea. Let's go to a second example. She loved horses, which is a positive idea. However, she was afraid to write negative idea. Let's go to the third example. On the other hand, doctors promise to do no harm, which is clearly positive, which means the property, the ductus would have had something negative. Probably a major surgery would have happened, which is clearly negative. And on the other hand, the doctors promised to do no harm. Let's go to the fourth example. Unlike her brother, she knew a good bargain when she saw it, which clearly meant that our brother did not know a good bargain. Let's go to the fifth example. Whereas his intentions were good, host for bad. So here you have clearly contradictory ideas in the sentence. Let's look at the sixth example. Rather than visiting a friend, the girl decided to watch a movie, right? So rather than will clearly connected contradictory idea in the sentence. These are some examples of contradictory words in the sentence. 5. Direction Words - Comparison and Similarity: Let's look at comparison words, which clearly mean direction words. So you can also say comparison words. Are we show similarity. So the function of a comparison word would mean to show how things are extremely similar. Let's look at some examples. As with most young girls, the siblings favorite color is pink. This is clearly comparing the sibling with all the other girls. So you can clearly see a comparison happening here. Let's look at the second example. The two girls worked equally on the project. Here, you clearly comparing the first girl with the second goal here saying that both of them were equal, equally clearly shows comparison. Let's go to the third example. In a like manner. The girl excited the building, sorry, the girl exited the building. You're clearly comparing how the girl exited the building with another previous situation or a person. Let's go to the fourth example. Just as Tina enjoyed visiting the horse, so to the genome. So both of them clearly enjoyed visiting the house. Let's go to the fifth example. Likewise, the girls showed interest in the piano, which clearly means that we are comparing the girls interest with the other people's interests on the piano. And let's look at the sixth example. Similarly, he crushed her self-esteem. So probably there might be another person who would have crushed the self-esteem. Similarly, this person to do the same thing. This is about comparison direction words. 6. Direction Words - Condition: Let's look at certain condition direction words. First of all, the function would be to provide a condition to what has been stated. You have to clearly identify in the GRE exam that certain sentences may have a condition given to it. And according to the conditions you have to add on the sentence. Let's look at some example of what is a condition where as the days get young, people stopped visiting the museum? So this is a condition. So only if this condition happens, people will stop visiting the museum. Otherwise, everything is okay. They want they will keep coming to the museum. If she calls, I will go to the store. Right? Only on this condition. I will go to the store. If this condition doesn't happen, I won't go to the store. Let's look at a third example. Unless she avoid sim, shelter in trouble. So only if she avoid sim shielded in trouble, if this condition happens, she would get in trouble. Right? Let's go to the fourth example. Even if he comes home, she could not forgive him. This is also telling you, even in this condition, she cannot forgive him. Right? Let's go to the next one. As the store closed, shoes unable to buy the banner, right? This was the condition the store was closed. And because of this condition, this thing happened, she wasn't able to buy the banner. Only if it stops raining, you will be allowed to play. Only on this condition will be allowed to play and know all the condition. So these are some examples of condition that action words in the sentence. 7. Direction Words - Result: Let's look at certain result oriented direction words in the sentence. First of all, the function is to provide the result of what has been stated. Let's look at some examples. The sky suddenly darkened and it began to rain. As a result, the couple of God drenched. So this is the result of that particular incident. Let's look at the second example. The girls went out in the cold without the admittance. Consequently, their fingers had frostbite. So this is the result of going out without mittens. Let's go to the third example. Due to the warm weather, the girls ice cream melted. So this is the result of the warm weather that the girls ice cream melted. Tim always starts of brawl at the bar. For this reason, I now go there without him. So this is the effect of having to fight on the bar. Let's go to the fifth example. She fed the dogs chocolate. Hence the top got sick. So this is the result of feeding the dogs with chocolate. Let's go to the next one. Henry couldn't tie shoes, so John helped him. This is the result of Henry not being able to tie his own shoes. This is what an examples of the result oriented direction words. 8. Direction Words - Reason: Now let's look at some reason oriented direction words. First of all, a reason oriented direction word is meant to show cause and effect in the sentence. Let's look at some examples. In view of the codes findings, the prosecutor dismissed the case. This is an example of a reason. This is the reason why she dismissed the particular case. Given that the money was missing, the employee called the police. This was the reason for the employer to call the police. You can clearly see a reason coming in the sentence. Now if the reason is obviously positive, the cause is positive. If the reason is negative, the cost will be negative, right? You can clearly see the cause and effect pattern happening there. With this in mind, the girls sought out her birth mother. This is the cost and this is the effect of the cause. For the purpose of understanding the consumers buying habits. The CEO interviewed many of its consumers. So this is clearly telling us for the purpose of understanding the consumers buying habits. This is the cause. And for that, the result is that they interviewed a lot of people. With this purpose. The boy set out to find his grandfather. Look at this. The same purpose. The boys set out to find this grandfather. Because of the pollution, many people move out of the community. So this is the costs that the effect is that people move out of the community. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 9. 'ALTHOUGH' - Presentation Points: So first of all, although is used to introduce a statement that makes your main statements seem very surprising. This would be the general structure of the phrase, although, let's look at this phrase here. Although. And then you have a phrase followed by an opposite phase. So this is how although would connect two phrases in the sentence. The phases are generally going to be contradictory in nature. Let's look at some examples. The first example is although the sun was shining, this is a positive idea. It wasn't very warm. This is a negative idea. You can clearly see how the conduction, although it's connecting two contradictory ideas. Let's look at the second example. I felt he was wrong, although I did not say so at that time, I felt it was wrong. This is a negative idea, although I did not say so at the time, which clearly meant that I was, I felt it was right. Okay, So this is how all load connect two contradictory ideas in the sentence. He decided to go, although I begged him not to. So this is a positive idea followed by a negative idea. That's all the conjunction although would do. And then let's look at the positive, the fourth sentence. All those small, the kitchen is well-designed. So the small is the negative idea. And well-designed is a positive idea. This is how, by looking at, although you will clearly know that the ideas are going to contradict each other in the sentence. Thanks for watching. 10. Example 1 - Michael Jackson's career: Hello there. Welcome back. Let's look at the example one. For all though. Let's look at the first sentence. Although Michael Jackson's career was on the decline, some critics felt is Recent World War might have dashes fame. So here you have a blank, and you'll have to fill this blank with two of the correct answers from the sixth answer options given to you. So let's look at the answer options. The first option is revealed, the second discussed, the third one is sanctified. The fourth one is retrieved, the fifth one is restored, and the sixth one is exonerated. Let's see how this question can be done. Now here, we're going to use the four-step action plan in order to solve this particular question. We're going to identify, simplify, predict an eliminate. Okay, This is very simple four-step action plan. Let's identify the context clue words, and the direction words in the sentence. So direction word is a word that gives us direction to the sentence. In our case, although clearly tells us, look, the direction is going to be contradictory. The phrases are going to be contradictory to each other, right? That is what, although tells us in the sentence. What is the context clue? What is the words that describe the nouns in the sentence, you can clearly see the word declined. So declined clearly describes Michael Jackson's career. Once we find, find out that the direction word and the context clue word. Once we know these two words, we're going to simplify the sentence using these two words. Okay, Let's see what we can come up with. So we can come up with something like this. Although the Korea was down, although the career was on the decline, the world two dashes, fame. Now it's a very simple sentence. We can clearly make sense of what this plan can be. First of all, although will clearly indicate that the ideas are going to contradict each other. Since we have a negative word here, we clearly know that this is going to be something positive. With that in mind, let's try to predict our own answer using the context clues. So we get, although the Courier was down the world to revive this fame, the world too broad back is famed the world to restore his fame. That is what you can get in the sentence, right? Because of this word, which is the context clue, and this word which is the direction work. Okay, so we know that the blank is something close to revive. Once we know this, the blank is very close to something which is revived. Let's eliminate answer options that are not close to revived. Let's see the options one-by-one, revealed means to disclose, right? This is not what we're looking for. Let's say eliminate it. Cost would mean doomed. Again, this is not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. Sanctified, which would mean blessing. Again, clearly not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. If I don't mean to recover or to revive or to retrieve, right? This is something close to what we have in mind here. Look at this revived and look at this Recover. It's slightly close to what we have in mind. So what we're gonna do, we're going to keep this on hold. Okay, so let me write here hold. The next option is restored, which is to bring back. Now going to bring back is also very similar to retrieved or restore or revived. Right? Let's keep it on hold. And let's look at the last option. Exonerated. Exonerated means to discharge. This is not what we're looking for, let's say eliminate it. What we have done, we have been able to eliminate four answer options that are not close to revive or restore. Those four answer options are options a, B, C, and F. We have been man, we have been able to eliminate four answer options, right? So now we know the correct answer by default would be option D, retrieved, an option E, restore. These are the two options that would clearly fit the blank in the sentence. And these options are also similar. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 11. Example 2 - Pioneering Ideas: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the second example for Although. We have the sentence here, although it does contain some pioneering ideas, one would hardly characterize the workers dash. So here we have this blank, and we'll have to fill this blank with two of the correct answer options from these six choices that we have. Let's look at the first option. Your first option is option a, Orthodox. Option B, eccentric option. C, original option. D, trifling. Option E, conventional, and option F, innovative. These are the six options that you have. And here you need to choose two of these from the options. To fit the blank. Let's see how we're going to do this particular question. Now for that, we have this four-step action plan ASPE. So we're going to identify, we're going to simplify, predict, and eliminate. Now what are we going to identify? We're going to identify the context clue words, and the direction words in the sentence. The direction we're clearly tells us how the sentence is going to be structured. So here we have the direction word as, Although, although clearly indicate in the sentence that the phrases are going to contradict each other. Once we have found that, we move on to the context clue that help us describe what the sentence is about. Here when we look at the sentence, when, when you scan the sentence, you can clearly see something like binary. This clearly describes how the work was. So that would be our contexts clueless sentence, right? So now we have found the two contexts clues in the sentence. Although it'd be the direction word and pioneering would be the context clue, which is nothing but a describing word. Now once you have this in mind, let's simplify the sentence using the context clues. So we're going to simplify the sentence, keeping these two words in mind. Let's see what do we get? We get. Although binary, the work is hardly characterized as dash. So now it's very easy to understand the sentence. Like we clearly know that although connect two contradictory ideas. So all the pioneering, this is a positive idea. We clearly know that this phrase is going to be negative. Right? Now it's very easy to figure out what is blind could be. Let's predict our own answer using the current context clues in the sentence. So what do we get? We get, yes. Although pioneering look how easy it is. Although pioneering, the work is hardly characterize this binary, very simple. Although positive, the work is not characterized as positive. So when you say the work is not characterized as positive, this is clearly a negative idea in the sentence, which is clearly contradicting the phrase binary, right, Cielo, look how easy to sentences now, we've come out with a word which is very close to binary. So this is what we have, binary. Now what we're gonna do, we're going to eliminate options that don't match the answer choices. Let's look at the answer option one-by-one. So orthodox, which is traditional, this is clearly not what we have. We can eliminate it. Eccentric, which is something that is not common. Again, not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. Originally. Originally means something that is real, something that is binary, right? So let's keep this on hold. Let's go to the next one. Trifling is something that is unimportant, something that is very less value. So let's eliminate this particular, Let's look at the next word. Conventional would mean something that's very standard. Again, not, not close to pioneering. Let's eliminate it. And then the sixth one is innovative, which is something that is fresh or something that is binary. Let's keep it on hold. Write. So we have managed to eliminate four answer options that are not close to the word binary. We have eliminated the four options. They are option a, B, D, and E, right? So these four answer options are eliminated. And we have two answer options. So the two answer options that indicate the right answer, option C, origin, and option F, innovative. So these two answers would clearly fit the blank in place of binary. And these two answer options are also similar in nature. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 12. Example 3 - George Orwell: Although accommodating in person, George Orwell dashes political positions in print. So here we have the blank and we have six answer options coming up. We'll have to fill two of these options. We have to choose two of these options that not only fit the blank, but are also equivalent in meaning. So you have option a, tenaciously, option B of secretly option C, inadvertently, option D, doggedly. Option E, sycophantic Lee, and option F. Idiosyncratically, the words might look really difficult, but don't worry, that's a very serious, very simple method to do this particular question. Let's see how we do it. So the question here is, although accommodating in-person, George Orwell dash, defendant is political positions in print. We're going to use a four-step action plan which identifies, simplify, predict, and eliminate. So we're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. Here, like we've seen earlier, the direction word is, although, which clearly indicates that the phrases are going to contradict each other. And the context clue word is accommodating, which clearly describes George Orwell. And accommodating is a very positive word, right? We have the direction word and the context clue word of the sentence. So although accommodating, right now when we have the direction word and the context clue, we're going to simplify it using a very simple method. We're going to come up with something like this, although accommodating in person, right? This is a positive idea. All will dash defended his politics. So I know that this particular idea must be negative. So once we know this particular idea must be negative, we can try coming up with our own words. So let's predict our own answer. So we can get something like this. Although accommodating in-person, George Orwell firmly defended his political positions. So when you say he defended his political positions firmly, that clearly means that it's the other way of saying he was not accommodating with respect to politics as a person, he was accommodating. That's for sure as a person who is accommodating. But as a politics or a person in politics, he was not accommodating. That is the work of the word, although this is what Although does in the sentence. Although tells us that in person he's accommodating, but in politics is not accommodating. So what is the other way of saying not accommodating in politics are not welcoming Other people in politics. It is simply by saying, you can simply say he firmly defined it is particularly political positions. So he firmly definitive political positions or he strongly defended his political positions. So once you know that this word is going to be firmly, we can try to come up with options that eliminate. We can eliminate the answer options that don't fit the word formally. Let's look at option a. Tenaciously. Yes. We have tenaciously, which is firmly. Firmly means very strongly, or to have a very strong grip, right? Let's keep it on hold. Let's look at UB secretly. Obsequious Smith would mean to be very, very submissive. Let's eliminate it. Inadvertently. Would mean mistakenly. Again, that's not what we want. So let's eliminate it. Doggedly would mean to be very, very stubborn. This is again very close to being firm. The doggedly, which means the characteristics of a dog. Very firm, very determined, very stubborn, right? So this is something close to what we have, which is firm. So again, let's keep it on hold. Sycophantic Lee would mean to flatter, like how these employees flatter their bosses. So that would mean sycophantic. Let's eliminate it because it's not what we want. And idiosyncratically would mean strange behavior. This is again, not what we want, so let's eliminate it. We are able to manage, we are able to eliminate four answer options here. Those options are a, C, E, and f. These other options, we were successfully able to eliminate. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a, tenaciously and option D doggedly know tenaciously and doggedly would clearly fit the blank in place are firmly. And another thing is these two answer options are also similar in meaning. Right? So these are the two answer options. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 13. 'AND' - Presentation Points: We're going to look at the same direction word and we're going to see how an can help us figure out the blank of the sentence. Let's look at some presentation contents. First of all, and it's the conjunction used as a function or a word to indicate a connection. Or in addition, especially if items within the same class and type. Okay? So this is the function of an end. It is used to indicate a connection or an addition within the same class and type. So if you look at the sentence structure here, whenever you have a phrase connected with an AND, a similar phrase will obviously follow this. So that is the work of an ad. It tells us that the same idea will follow. Let's look at some examples. The procedure must be executed correctly and completely. So that tells us that correctly and completely or two positive words. Okay, let's look at the second example. There are roads and freeways wherever you go in America. So look at this. You have roads and you have this conjunction and then you have freeways. Look at this, how it is able to connect to ideas of the same kind. Let's look at the third example. I lost my job and I have no money. So again, look at this and is able to connect to negative ideas. Let's go to the fourth one. Don't look relaxed and rested. Look at this. So relaxed is very similar to a restaurant. That's how and connects the ideas in the sentence. 14. Example 4 - Climate Change: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the first example for, and the question is, the crux of his speech was that the issue of climate change remains too complex and dash to generate the requisite focus. Here you have a blank, and you have to fill this particular blank with two of the correct answer options from the list given to you. Let's look at option a, multifarious option B. Option C, contentious, option D, debatable, option E, homogeneous and option F cast. From here, you will have to select two correct answer options. Now let's see how we do this particular example. We're going to use the ISP four-step action plan, where we are going to identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let us see what we're going to identify. Yes, we're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. Now in the sentence, the direction word is. And look at this, the direction word is and the context clue is complex. So this word clearly describes the climatic issue. So how was the climate issue? The climate issue was complex and dash. So complex is a word that describes the climatic issue. Okay? So we have the direction words and the context clue words. You can form a very simple structure of the sentencing. Look at this. The climatic issue was complex. And now here I know that some phrase which is very similar to complex will be there in this particular sentence. Why? Because of the connection word and right, because an tells us that two words are going to build the same kind. If one is complex, then the second word must be very similar to complex. Let's go and simplify the sentence. Let's see what do we get? Yes, we got a very simple sentence this way. The issue remains too complex and dash. Here, we know that the world is very close to complex. With that, let us predict our own answer using the context clues. We can get something like this. The issue remains complex and complicated. So complicated, you can think of a word that is very similar to complex. So you can say complicated is something that is very similar to complex. These both are similar in meaning. Now with this, we have found out that the blank must be complicated, which is very similar to complex, right? With that, we are good to eliminate answer options that don't match your answer, which is complicated. Let's look at option a. Option a is multifarious, which means divers know diverse does not mean complicated. Let's eliminate this answer. For cell means oversimplified. Again, this is not close to complicated. Let's eliminate this answer. Contentious means controversial. Yes. So controversial is something close to complex or complicated? This is close to what we have in mind. Let's keep this on hold. Let's look at debatable. Debatable means questionable. Questionable is something that is complicated because when you say something is questionable, it clearly means that something is complicated or something is controversial. So let's keep this on hold because this is close to what we have. The next one is homogeneous, which is similar. Again, nowhere close to our answer. Let's eliminate this castration, which means to criticize severely. Again, that's not close to our answer. Let's eliminate this. You see, we are able to eliminate four answer options that don't match our choices. Those four answer options or option a, B, E, and F. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option C, contentious, and option D debatable. So contentious and debatable. Both of these words mean the same thing as complicated. They are similar in meaning. They clearly fit this particular blank. Which gives us the answer to this particular question. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 15. Example 5 - Fraser's teaching Method: Hello there. Welcome back to the second example for, and let's look at the second example. Fraser taught by example. He dashed long mindedness in his own lectures and berated his students for any tendency towards circumlocution. Here we have a blank and we have to fill this particular blank with six. From the sixth of the answer options given to us. Only two correct answers are possible, right? Let's look at the answer options. Option a. Option B, epitomized. Option C, accentuated. Option D, embraced, option E, welcomed, and option F shunned. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to do this using the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. The direction words are, and the direction word is and which tells us the blank will be very similar to what an disconnected. The context clue is berated. Because berated describes Fraser's actions. That's why it will become a context clue because it clearly describes how Fraser was. If you look at this, we have found out the direction word and the context clue words in the sentence. With this are strengthened structure looks something like this. Since you have and berated, berated is clearly a negative phrase. That's why what will happen here. You will have a negative three, so you will have something which is very similar to berated. This is a simple structure of the sentence. Let's simplify the sentence. So we get something like this. Fraser dashed long winded, and berated his students for circumlocution. So berated is clearly the context clue. And you have this direction word and here, which clearly tells us that this blank will be something close to berated. Let's predict our own answer option. So what do we get here? We can get something like this. Fraser rejected long mindedness and berated his students for circumlocution. Rejected is something close to be rated or downgrading the students, giving low rating to the students. Okay? So since this is a negative word, here, you have a negative word in the sentence. Okay? So once we know that we have a word which is rejected, we can use this to figure out the answers to this particular sentence. Let's eliminate the four answer options. Option a. Option a is true, which means a y. Now this is close to what we have because it's 2D is very close to reject it. Let's keep this on hold. Let's look at option B, epitomized. Epitomized means to re-present. Again, this is not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. Accentuated. Highlight, which is a very positive word. Again, not what we want. We can eliminate this particular answer. Embrace would mean to hug. Again, not what we want. You can eliminate this answer. Welcomed means to greet. Again, not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. So you can clearly see we have four answer options that are clearly positive, right? So we can clearly eliminate these four answer options. We're looking for a negative word here. Here we already have a negative word. And let's look at the last option ignored, which is clearly a negative word, right? Let's keep this on hold because we have a negative word here. Okay? So now we have eliminated option B, C, D, and E by the process of elimination. And therefore the correct answer would be Option a and Option F shunned. So option a is choose an option if shunned. Both these fit the blank clearly. And they are also similar in meaning. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 16. Example 6 - Eminent Scholar's Attempt: The book is an attempt on the part of the eminent scholar to reconcile the dash experience and the theoretical underpinnings of certain everyday phenomena. Here you have a blank and you have to fill this particular blank with two of the correct answer options from the options provided. Let's look at the answer options. Option a, philosophical option. B, empirical option. C, arcane, option. D, practical, option E, superficial, and option F up to use. Let us see how we do this particular question. Now here we're going to use again the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. The direction words are reconciled, which is telling us that the blank is going to be in the same direction to reconcile. Okay? Because reconcile is another way of saying to bring together which means, which is something in the same direction. And the context clue words theoretical. No theoretical is another context clue word here in the sentence, which clearly tells us that the blank is very close to the theoretical. Right? So let's see what structure do we get? Now? We get the structure as the book wonder to reconcile dash and something that is theoretically the book wants to bring together. Something that is dash. And theoretically, Let's see how we simplified this particular sentence using the context glue. The books. Book attempts to reconcile the dash experience and the theoretical ideas. If you look at the blank here, it must be something very close to bringing together theoretical and dash experiences. Let's predict our own all on corruption. So your answer is something like this. Yes, the book, Atoms to bring back or to bring together practical ideas as well as the theoretical ideas. So obviously, when you have something that is in practical and something, something that's in theory, clearly, both would make a complete full set. Got it. So it will have a really big or a complete set only when things are in practical as well as in theoretical. That's what the book tries to do. Write the book tries to bring together practical aspects and the theoretical aspects to form a complete whole set. Okay, so we have this word practical in the sentence here. We have found all the blank practical. And let's see how we're going to eliminate down through options which are not close to practical. So with this, we're going to eliminate our four answer options. Let's look at option a philosophical. Philosophical is again, nowhere close to practical. We can eliminate this answer. Empirically means factual details or practical details. So this can be kept on hold. Because empirical means, practical. Arcane means something that is mysterious. And mysterious is not what we're looking for. We can eliminate it. Practical. Let's see what we have here. We have exactly the same word but you came up with. So practical would mean hands-on, which is clearly what we wanted. We can keep this on hold. Superficial means something that is not thorough. Again, we can eliminate this particular answer. And obtuse would mean something that is stupid. Again, not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. So now you see we were able to estimate four answer options. Those four answer options or option a, option C, option E, and F. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B, empirical and option D practical. Now, empirical and practical, both of them mean the same thing as something that is practical and something that will fit the theoretical aspects of the book. Right? So this practical and theoretical aspects will make the complete book. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 17. 'BUT & YET'- Presentation Points: So in this session, we're going to see how to use the contradictory conjunction word, but or yet. We're going to see how the word but or yet can help us identify the blank. So as conjunctions but and yet are interchangeable. Which means that whenever you use a button, you can also use a, yet they both are interchangeable conjunctions. So the general structure would be, you will have a phrase here. And then whenever we have a but or yet, Always remember that an opposite phrase will follow this. This phrase is going to contradict this phrase given here. This is the general structure of the sentence. Whenever you see a yet or a bot in the sentence, let us look at some examples. She's an excellent singer. This is a positive sentence, yet she never sings for movies. This is a negative sentence. If you look at the second example, he's a multimillionaire. This is a positive idea, but a miser, which is clearly a negative idea. You can clearly see how the bot connects two contradictory ideas in the sentence. Let's look at a third example. The water resources isn't less, which means it is really positive, but it is contaminated, which is clearly negative. Again, you can see how bot connects two contradictory ideas. And let's look at example four. I don't like spicy food yet. I have to eat them at birthday parties. You can clearly see how the contraction here is shown with yet. So this is how butt and yet can be used to connect two contradictory ideas in the sentence. 18. Example 7 - Condescension and laughter: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the first example for but, and yet. The given sentences. When the boy first appeared, other students treated him with condensation and laughter, but the teacher watched him closely and did not share their dash response. So here you have this blank and you'll have to fill this blank with two of the correct options from the choices given to you. Let's see what choices are given to you. Option a, complimentary option be flattering. Option C, derisive. Option D, respectful, option E, ridiculing, and option F, cacophony. Now let's see how we can use this options to get the two correct answers for this particular blank. Okay? Now for this, we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Okay, So first we're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. What are the contexts clue is in the direction of words in the sentence. Yes, you can clearly see this, the direction word is, but which tells us that the sentence will have contradictory ideas connected together. And the context clue, something that describes or something that is an adjective or an adverb will definitely be the context clue. So in our sentence, you have condescension and laughter. This is how they treated him, right? So this becomes our context clue because it describes how the students greeted the person. So the general structure of the sentences. Initially there was condescension and laughter, which is clearly a negative idea. But obviously a positive idea will follow after this. So this is a general structure of this particular sentence. Now what we're going to do, we're going to use the direction would the context clue? And we're going to simplify the sentence using these words. So when we simplify the sentence, we can get something like this. Others mocked him, which is clearly negative. But this phrase must be positive. So we know that this phrase must clearly be positive. So others mocked him, which is a negative, but the teacher did not share their data response. Now make sure that you already have a negative word here. In order to have this, in order to make this whole word or this whole phrase positive, you need to have a negative word here in this sentence. Okay? But the teacher did not share their negative response. Others gave him a negative response, but the teacher did not share their negative response. This is how the sentence would be connected. So I know that we have to come out with a negative word in the sentence. Now let me predict our own answer. Let's predict our own answers. Let us see what do we get here? We can get something like this. Others mocked him, but the teacher did not share their mocking response. Okay, So others gave him a negative response, but the teacher did not share their negative response. So how was it negative response? The negative response was mocking, right? You can see the same word here. It's condescension and laughter is nothing but market. Okay? So other students treated him with condescension and laughter, but the teacher watch them closely and did not share their condescension and laughter kind of response, which is nothing but mocking. Now we know that this blank should be mocking. Now we're going to eliminate answer options that don't match your answer. Let's look at the first blank. The first blank is complimentary, which is supportive. This is clearly not close to mocking. We can eliminate it. The second blank is flattering, which means praising. Again, this is opposite of what we're looking for. Letters eliminated. Derisive means marking. Let's keep this on hold because this is a close answer that we have. Respectful means humble. Again, this is not related to mocking. Let us eliminate it. Ridiculing means to mock. It's very close to our answer. Let's keep it on hold. So cacophony means gneiss, which is clearly not what we're looking for. We can eliminate it. Okay, So now you are able to eliminate four answer options from here. So we've eliminated option a, option B, option D, option F. These are the four answers we have managed to eliminate. Now we're left with the two correct answers. So the correct answer by the process of elimination is option C. There isn't an option E, ridiculing. Now you need to cross check finally, because there is live and ready cooling clearly means to mock or to make fun. So these are the two correct answers, and they are also similar in meaning. And they are also clearly fitting this particular blank here, right? Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 19. Example 8 - Horton a ‘neo-Tylorian’: Hello everybody. Welcome back. Let's look at the second example for and yet. The given question is, Horton follows Taylor so much that he is called a new DeLorean. A label intended to be dash, but one accepted by Him with pride. So this is the question. And here we have to fill two correct answers. You have to fill the blanks with two answer options. And this is the particular blank that you have here. The options given to you, our option, a, pejorative option. B, congratulatory. Option C, derogatory option D, encouraging. Option E, constructive, and option F. Helpful. So these are the six answer options. From here, you need to select two correct answers. Let us see how to do this particular question. Now we are going to use the four-step action plan, which is you're going to identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. So what are we going to identify? Yes, we are going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. So first, what are the contexts clovers and the direction words in the sentence. So it clearly the context clue word and the direction word. Let's look at the direction inward first. You can clearly see of but in the sentence, okay? So what is clearly a contradictory direction word? So we have found that out. Then the context clues pride because a context clue is something that describes the particular label in this particular sentence. So the label was accepted by Him with pride. The label was meant to be something related to pride. Pride is our context clue in this sentence. We have found all the context clues in the sentence and the direction we're. Now with this, we can get a very simple structure here of this particular sentence. So we have a negative, we should have a negative phase here. But it was accepted by Him with pride. So since we have a prior, which is a positive idea here, this phrase must clearly be negative. Okay? So we have a basic sentence structure. Now let us simplify the sentence using context clues. So how do we simplify the sentence? A label that is indented to be dash but accepted by Him width. So this is a positive idea in the sentence. Now the label is intended to be dash. Now we can clearly know by the sentence structure that we're looking for a negative word in this particular sentence. Let's predict our own answer and let's see what do we get here? Yes, it is a very simple thing. A label that is intended to be shameful but accepted by Him with pride. So we are clearly putting a word that is opposite of prime. A label indented to be not something later to pride, but accepted by Him with pride. So this would be the word that you can come up with something which is opposite of pride. Okay? Now, by knowing that this word can be something related to shameful, what you can do, you can eliminate answer options that don't match the context. Now we're going to look at options here, and we're going to eliminate options that do not match the word shameful. Let's look at the first option. The first option is pejorative. Pejorative would mean something that is insulting. So something that is insulting. Let us keep this on hold because this is something close to what we have in mind. The next blank is pejorative, sorry, the next blank is congratulatory, which means something related to praise. This is not what we have, not what we're looking for. Lead is eliminated. The next is derogatory, which means which means D grading, right? This is something what is close to what we have. Let's keep this on hold. Okay. Derogatory would mean something that is very shameful. And then you have the option for which is encouraging, which means really supportive. This is the opposite of what we're looking for. Let's keep it on hold. Then you have constructive, which means useful. This is clearly not our answer. And then you have the last one which is helpful, which is friendly. And we clearly know that these are all positive words, so this cannot be our answer. So look what we have managed to eliminate. We have managed to eliminate option B, D, E, and F. Because these words were very close to being positive. And here we are looking for a negative word. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a, pejorative and option C derogatory. Both of these clearly fit the blank here in the sentence. And these words are also similar in meaning. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 20. Example 9 - Anthropologists' belief: 40 years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that neanderthals and **** sapiens never made it. But advances in genetic testing proved that incorrect, such as the dash nature of science. So here you have a blank and you will have to fill in this blank with two correct options from the given list of six option choices. Option a, fallacious. Option. B, evolving option. C, counterfactual. Option D, advancing, option E, vacillating, and option F undetermined. These are the sixth answer options. Let's see how to do this question. Again, we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identifies, simplify, predict, and eliminate. We're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in this particular sentence. The context clue word and the direction word here, but it's clearly the direction word in the sentence, which clearly tells us that the ideas are going to contradict each other. This part of the idea is going to be negative. This part of diarrhea would be positive or vice versa. Now, the context clue in the sentences, advances prove that incorrect because it clearly describes the genetic testing. Advances proved, the genetic testing to be incorrect. Advances in genetic testing proved that incorrect. This is the context clue in the sentence. So once we get these two ideas, we know that the direction we're in the context clues this. Now we can simplify the sentence in our own words. So what do we get? Advances in genetic testing proved people's belief from such is the nature of science. So we get something like this because of advances, which is really a positive idea. It proved people's belief wrong. People had an earlier belief, and that was proved to be incorrect. That was proved to be incorrect because of the advances in genetic testing. Okay? So such as the dashed nature of science. Now with this, let us predict our own answer as to what can the blank B. Now we can get something like this. Advances in genetic testing, people's belief from such as the advancing nature of sines. So why am I coming out with a word like advancing? Because because of advances in testing only people's belief was proved in correct. Okay. So people's belief was proved incorrect only because of advances in technology. Because we are advancing in technology or science is advancing and technology. That is why the people's belief was proved incorrect, which means such is the advancing or progressing nature of science. Okay? So this word is something related to advancing or progressing. This is what we're looking for. We got this particular word. Now we're going to eliminate answer options that are not close to advancing or progressing. Let's look at the option a. Option a is fallacious, which means false. This is not what we're looking for. It's not close to advancing. Let us eliminate it. Option B, evolving, evolving, advancing, progressing. This is really close to each other. Let's keep this on hold. Option C, counter-factual, which is clearly going against each other. This is not what we're looking for. Let us eliminate it. Advancing means progressing or proceeding or evolving, right? This is close to what we have. Let's keep this on hold. Vacillating means clearly oscillating, moving from a to B and then B to a, right? So this is clearly not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. And undetermined means something that cannot be found at all. Again, this is not what we're looking for. Let us eliminate it. So you see, we have clearly managed to eliminate four answer options. They are option a, option C, option E, and option F. These are the four options we will manage. We were able to eliminate it. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B evolving and option C advancing. So again, evolving and advancing. Both of these are similar words and both of these clearly fit the blank for advancing this. These two answers are the correct answer for this particular question. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 21. 'AFTER' - Presentation Points: We're going to see the connective propositions after. And we're going to see how after can help us fill in the blank. Let's look at some presentation contents for after. So first of all, after means what happened after something that had occurred. So you have a past incident and after that, something will occur that is clearly indicated by the word after. Let's look at structure here. So you have a past action. And then you have after. After clearly tells us that after this past action on other main action would happen. So this action is the main action that we're talking about because of this word after, right? We know that there is a past action that happened. And after that, some main action will happen. Let's look at some examples. Soon after moving to London, she got a new job. So first what happened? She moved to London. That is the past action. And after that, what happened? She got a new job. Let's look at the second example. After what should it to me, I'll never trust her again. What happened in the past? She did something to me that happened in the past. After that, I won't trust her. Okay. Let's look at the third example. After the show. After the show, we were invited back to the dressing room. So after the show GO TO first this action happened. And then after indicates that we were indicated, we were invited back to the dressing room. And then the fourth example, her name came after mine on the list. So first my name game and then name game. So this is what after indicates in the sentence. 22. Example 10 - Anthropologists vs Mesopotamians: Hello there. Welcome back to the first example for after. Let's look at the question. Anthropologists contend that the ancient Mesopotamians switched from grain production to barley. After excessive irrigation and salt accumulation made the soil dash two grains. Let's look at the answer options. So here we have this blank here, and we have to fill this blank with two correct answer options from the list given to us. Option a, indifferent to, option B, inhospitable to option C, unsuitable for option D, acrimonious to option E, malignant to an option F in your two. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let us see how we are going to identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. So the direction word would be after. This clearly indicates that a past action would have happened. And after that we have a main action happening. The past action is excessive irrigation and soil accumulation. This is the past action. Now with this where we're able to identify a very simple structure. We get after excessive irrigation, which means after this particular action, which is clearly a boss faction. What will happen after that? That is clearly given by the word after. Let's simplify this particular sentence. Let's see what do we get. Mesopotamians switched from grain to barley after excessive salt made the soil dash two grains. Okay, so this is a simplified version of the sentence. Let's predict our own answer. Using the clues. We can get something like this. Mesopotamians switch from grain to barley after excessive salt made the soil unfit to grains. Look at the past action here. You have excessive salt, which is a past action. So after excessive salt water would happen, obviously the soil will be unfit for cultivating grains. Why? Because some past action clearly indicates that the soil was clearly excess. It had excessive amounts of salts. So obviously, the solid will be unfit to cultivate grades. Now let's see which answer options we can eliminate by the word, by using this word unfit. Let's look at option a indifferent to. Now option a Indifferent means something that is ordinary. This is not close to what we want. We can eliminate this answer. Option B, inhospitable to yes, inhospitable to is very close to unfit. Let's keep this on hold. Let's look at option C. Unsuitable for, unsuitable for, is also the closest same thing as not fitting. Let's keep this on hold because this is close to unfit. Acrimonious, which means a service. Now, Acer big means something that is not close to what we want. You can eliminate this answer. Benny Goodman means favorable. This is a very positive word, but we want something which is negative. We can clearly tell me this answer. And endured means accustomed to, which is again a positive word. We don't want this particular word, since we want a negative word here. With this, Let's see what answer options we have eliminated. We have eliminated option a, D, E, and F. And therefore the correct answer which is close to would be option B inhospitable. And option C, unsuitable for both these words clearly mean unfit for cultivating grains because of the excessive amounts of salts. And both of these clearly mean the same thing. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 23. Example 11- The tired Players: Hello there. Welcome back to the second example for after. Let's look at the second example. After a long hard practice in the summer sun, the players who are visibly dash. Let's look at the answer options. Now here we have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options from the given list of six options here. Option a, flagging. Option B, option C, listen. Option D, loathsome. Option E, vigorous, and option F innervated. Let's see how to do this particular question using the four-step action plan. We're going to identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. We have this direction word here after, and we have the context clue word. Long and hard practice. Okay? So obviously, after a long and hard practice, what would happen? This is clearly indicated by the word after. Let us see what do we get? We get a simple structure here. After a very long and hard practice. Now since a very long and hard practices and negative phrase, obviously a negative phrase would follow. Let's simplify this particular sentence. We get, after a long and hard practice, the players who are dash. Okay, So let's see what we can put here. Let's predict our own answer option. We can get something like this. After a long hard practice, the players were tired. It's a very simple way to put it because they practiced very long. They practice very hard. Obviously, that would make them diode. With this, we can eliminate the four answer options that don't fit the blank tire. Flagging means to weaken, which is clearly close to tire. Let's keep this on hold because it's very close to tile. Now hail means which is healthy. Again, hail is a positive word. We don't want this. We can eliminate this. Listen means graceful. Graceful is again a positive word. We can eliminate that. Loathsome means hateful, which is not close too tired. It is a negative word, but again, not close to tire. We can eliminate this. Vigorous means very healthy. This is again, not what you want. Now you can clearly see here in this option, option B Hale, an option E vigorous. Both of them mean the same thing, which is healthy. But still both of them are not perfect answers here because the blank that we're looking for is clearly negative. Okay? So this is how the GRA can clearly trick you by giving you two answer options that are clearly equivalent. But again, they don't fit the context, okay, So it should be very careful of that. Option F would be innervated, which is exhausted. Exhausted would clearly mean tire, right? So let us keep this on hold. You see we are able to eliminate four answer options. They are Option B, C, D, and E. And the correct answer which is close to Tired, would be option a flagging and option innovated. Both of these mean the same thing. And they clearly fit the blank in the sentence, which is close to Tyler. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 24. Example 12 - Margulies' failed Attempt: After a second attempt by Margolis to make a simple shot, the coach put him on the bench for the rest of the game. Here we have this blank in this particular sentence, and we have to fill this blank with two of the answer options from the list of the options given to us. Option a. Option B, flawless. Option C, booklets. Option D, indifferent to cable. Option E, feckless, and option F or species. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identifies, simplify, predict, and eliminate. See. We're going to identify the context clue hoods, and the direction words in the sentence. After is again the direction word in the sentence that tells us that after a past action of main action will happen. If the past action is negative, the main action will be negative. If the past action is positive, the main action will be positive, which clearly that after indicates the same direction. And the context clue would be on the bench. So the coach put him on the bench. So on the bench this clearly describes marvelous performance. Okay. So we clearly know how this person performed. He was put on the bench that clearly indicates how his performance was. With this. We can get a simple structure. We can get something like this. After something. The coach put them on bench. So after something the codes put him on bench. Now since put him on benches, or negative phrase here, obviously this word will be a negative phase. Now let's try to understand the whole sentence. What do we get here? We get a simplified version of sentences this way. After a second attempt, the coach put him on the bench for the rest of the game. Now, since he was put on a bench for the rest of the game, obviously is performance wouldn't have been that good. That is why the coach put him on the bench for the rest of the game. With that, we can predict our own answer options. What do we get here? We get something like this. After a second unsuccessful attempt or a second failed attempt, the coach put them on the bench. We have this word here, unsuccessful. Or you can also say failed attempt. Right? Because the courts put him on the bench for the rest of the game, right? So with this, we can clearly eliminate the four answer options. What do we see here? Restless. Option a is uneasy. Now, uneasy. It's again, not close to failed, so you can eliminate this answer. Flawless means very perfect. This is again, not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. Booklets means useless. Useless is something that is close to fail or unsuccessful. Let's keep this on hold because this is close to what we have in the fatty cable would mean tireless are continuously going on performing. This is again, not what we want. We can eliminate this. Factless means. Let's are totally useless. This is close to what we want. We can keep this on hold because factless clearly means failed or unsuccessful. Auspicious means a favorable or unfavorable event. Again, nowhere close to our answer, we can eliminate this answer. So you see we have been able to eliminate option a, B, D, and F. And therefore the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option C rootless, and option E, feckless. So bootlegs and feckless, both of them mean something close to failed. And they are closely. Perfect for the blank. Here. 25. 'SEMICOLON'- Presentation Points: We're going to see the Lincoln devices, especially the semicolon. And we're going to see how the semicolon will help us identify the blank in the sentence. Let's look at some presentation contents of the semi-colon. So first of all, a semicolon can be used to link to complete choices, two complete thoughts. So when you have two complete thoughts, then the semicolon can be used to link them. So generally, what do we have when you have a semicolon? When you have a semicolon, you have the left side of the sentence. And you have the right side of the sentence. The left side and the right side must be similar or they must be related. That is the work of the semi-colon. So you can clearly see that if the blank is on the right-hand side, we can use the left hand side to get to the blank. Or if the blank is on the left-hand side, we can use the right hand side to get to the blank. Let's look at some examples. It was raining. And then you have a semicolon. The game was suspended, sorry, the game was canceled. So we can clearly see that the first half of the sentence is clearly negative. Therefore, the semicolon tells you that this particular right hand side of the sentence will go according to the left-hand side of the sentence. Because it was raining, what happened? The game was canceled. Let's look at the second example. Dad is going bald, right? This is again clearly a negative idea. His head is getting thinner and thinner. So you can clearly see how the semicolon connects the concept of baldness. Let's look at the third example. I love ice cream. Write it clearly tells us what I love. It is my favorite food. Again, this clearly in causes, this clearly goes back to the ice cream, which clearly tells us that it is the favorite food. Let's go to the fourth example. Mission drives a Jaguar, but Sonya drives a Porsche. So clearly the semicolon tells us what both these people drive. Right? So this is how the semicolon can be used to find out the blank in the sentence. 26. Example 13 - Dead end Negotiations: Hello there. Welcome to the first example of semi-colons. Let's look at the first question. After us of acrimonious arguments. The negotiations reached a dash. Neither side was willing to compromise. Here we have the blank and we have to fill this blank with two correct answer options from the six options given to us. Let's look at option a, solution. Option B. Option C, Conclusion. Option D. Option E, deadlock, and option F, resolution. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. First, let's identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. So obviously the direction word is the semicolon, which clearly tells us that the left-hand side of the sentence will go according to the right-hand side of the sentence. Alright. Let's look at the context clue. The context clues knows compromise. Neither side was willing to compromise. So with this, you can clearly identify what the blank would be. Neither of them were willing to compromise. Let's see what do we get here? We get something like this. We have the left-hand side of the sentence here. Then we have the semicolon, and then we have the right-hand side of the sentence here. Now the right-hand side tells you that neither side was willing to compromise. Obviously, the left-hand side is sentence should clearly be on the same lines. Let's simplify the sentence. Let's see what do we get? We get the left-hand side is negotiations reached a dash. Neither side was willing to compromise. This is related to this. Okay. Now let's see what do we get here? We can identify that. Then when neither side we're willing to compromise, we can predict our own answer by saying that negotiations reached a dead end. Because when neither of the sides are willing to compromise, obviously the negotiations will reach a dead end. That means they cannot proceed further. Just like in the game of chess, when you reach a deadline dead-end, when neither party is able to proceed further. We have found out this were to be dead-end based on this context clue. Now we're going to eliminate answer options that don't fit the context. Let's look at option a solution. This is not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. Option B in passing, which is dead-end. This is close to what we have. We can eliminate this solid, we can keep this on hold. Option C, conclusion, which is ending, or they're not what clothes we want, we can eliminate it. Option D end, which is to finish the not what we want, we can eliminate it. Deadlock. Deadlock is something that is close to what we have, which is stalemate, and which clearly tells us that neither parties couldn't proceed further. Let's keep this on hold. An option F would be resolution, which means decision. This is clearly not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. So we were able to eliminate option is C, D, and F. Right? So therefore the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B, embassy, an option E, deadlock. So in passing and deadlock would clearly mean the similar things. Right? And they clearly fit the blank, which means dead end. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 27. Example 14 - Teacher’s mercurial mood: Hello there. Welcome to the second example for the semi-colons. Let's look at the question. The teacher's mercury, mood changes and dash approach to grading made the students uneasy. They never knew what would please him or what would earn good marks. You have this blank here in the sentence, and you have to fill this particular blank with two correct answer options from the six options given to you. Option a. Option B, authoritarian option. C, strict option D, ambivalent. Option E, whimsical option F, hide bound. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to do this using the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. So that action word here is the semicolon, which clearly tells us that the left-hand side of the sentence would be related to the right-hand side of sentence. The context clue of the sentence. The right-hand side of the sentence tells us they never knew what would please him or what would earn him good marks. So this whole thing would become our context clue in the sentence because it clearly describes the grading system. Right? So let's see what do we get here? We get something like this. This would be the left-hand side of the sentence. Then we have the semicolon here. On the right-hand side of the sentence tells us that they never knew what would please him. So this would clearly indicate what the blank can be because the left-hand side is clearly related to the left hand, right hand side. Let's simplify the sentence and let's see what do we get? We get something like this. The left-hand side tells you that the mood changes and dash approach to grading. And the right hand side tells you they never knew what would please him. Since they never knew what would please him. It clearly tells us how the grading system was. With that, let's predict our own answer option. So we can get something like this. The professor had a very random approach to grading. That's why the students never knew water, please. So with this, we can get the word random. And let's celebrate dancer options that don't match the context. Option, a tardy, which means late. This is not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. Authoritarian, which means strict. Strict is something that people would know how the professor would create the graded, right? They would know what would earn them good marks. So it cannot be strict. Strict is again, not what we want. We can eliminate this particular answer. Ambivalent means very uncertain, neither decide nor that site. So ambivalent is something that we want. Let's keep this on hold. Because the professor's grading system was ambivalent and they didn't know what those students wanted. The whimsical would mean a random, which is clearly what we want. We can keep this on hold. So when the professor's grading was random, the students never knew what they wanted. And hide bound would mean. Orthodox. Orthodox is close to, not close to what we want. We can eliminate this answer. So you see we have managed to eliminate option a, B, C, and F. Right? So the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option D, ambivalent. Option E, whimsical. So ambivalent and whimsical, both of them mean something happening at random or without any decision. Both of them mean the same thing. And both of them clearly for this particular blank here. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 28. Example 15 - Two different artists: The two artists differ markedly in their temperaments. Palmer was reserved, unconscious, Fraser, dash, and boastful. We have this particular blank, and we have to fill this blank with two correct answer options from the list given to us. Option a, phlegmatic, option. B. Option C, constrained option D, trackable, option E, stoic, and option F, irascible. So these are the six sons are options. From here, we need to pick two sizes. Let's see how do we do this. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, Simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. Let's see what do we get here? The direction word is the semicolon, which clearly tells us that the left-hand side of the sentence will be similar to the right-hand side of the sentence. Clue word here is that they differed markedly in their temperaments. Differed markedly clearly describes both these people's temperaments. Okay. Let's see what do we get? Yes. So the left-hand side, the sentence tells you that they differ markedly in the temperaments, that they will completely different in their temperaments. And the right-hand side of the sentence is the blank that we have. Now we have fulfilled this blank according to this particular context here, because the left hand side will be related to the right-hand side. Let's simplify the sentence. Let's see what do we get here? The left-hand side tells you that the artists differed markedly in the temperaments. The right-hand side tells you one was reserved and coaches, this clearly means that the person was very positive. The other one was dashed and boastful. So this could clearly mean, this should mean something negative because they are markedly differ in their temperaments. This is a big clue that we have here. Since the markedly differ in their temperaments. Obviously, you should clearly show that difference in their temperaments. When one person is very positive, The second person must be negative. Let's predict our own answer. So we can predict you're going to come up with a negative word like this, that the second person wasn't bad tempered. The second person was evil tempered or ill nature, right? The first person had positive attributes, positive temperaments. The second person had negative temperaments. Therefore, these artists differed markedly in their temperaments. Let's see what options you can eliminate. We can eliminate something that is close to, not close to bad tempered. Let's look at phlegmatic. Phlegmatic means com. This is clearly not what we want, which is exactly the opposite of what we want. We can eliminate it. Color, it could mean ill temper. This is close to what we want. We can keep it on hold because ill tempered clearly means bad temper. Constraint means awkward. This is not what we want to eliminate it because auth code is not close to bad temper. Tractable means controllable. Know controllable is not something what we want, we can eliminate this. Stoic means indifferent. Indifferent is also very, very neutral word, but we're clearly looking for a negative word here. We can eliminate this answer. And irascible means short tempered or very bad tempered. So this is close to what we have. We can keep this on hold. Now we are able to eliminate four answer options here. Those four options, or Option a, c, d, and e, we have managed to eliminate. And we're left with the two correct answer options. They are option B and option F, irascible, caloric, and irascible. Both of them mean bad temper. Right? Both of them are also similar in meaning and they clearly fit the particular blank. 29. Example 16 - American political contentions: Hello there. Welcome back to the fourth example for the semicolon. Let's look at the fourth example. For most of the 20th century, American political contentions reflected pragmatic rather than ideological differences. Candidate debates centered around whether programs were dash. Here, you have a blank, and you have to fill this blank with two correct answer options from the six options given to you. Option a, partisan option be valuable. Option C, feasible, option D, innocuous, option E, prejudiced, and option F viable. Let's see how we do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. So we're going to see how we're going to use this particular method. First, let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. The direction word here is the semicolon. This is clearly the direction word, which tells us that the right-hand side of the sentence will be related to the left-hand side of the sentence, right? So we have the direction word, which is semi-colon. And the context clue is clearly located on the right-hand side of the sentence. Says that the political contention is reflected pragmatic rather than ideological differences. Right? So this is clearly the context clue words because it's clearly describing how these American contention. So all right, so let's see what do we get here? We have the left-hand side of the sentence, and we have the right-hand side of the sentence. Here we have the semicolon. Now, since the left-hand side of the sentence is ready to write end of the sentence. The left-hand side of the sentence will closely be related to something that was pragmatic rather than ideological. Let's see how we simplify this particular sentence. The left-hand side was that they reflected pragmatic thoughts rather than ideological differences. Therefore, the candidate debates were dash. Okay, So we can predict our own answer. We can come up with something like this. So since the left hand side tells you that they were more pragmatic, pragmatic clearly means practical. Therefore, obviously when they were, when they reflected more on pragmatic rather than ideological differences. Obviously the candidates debates were more of practical oriented. Right? So you see, we were able to get this particular blank here. This word here was practical. With that. Let's eliminate options that don't match the answer. Option, a partisan, which is just to follow up. This is not what we want. Let's eliminate this answer. Option B, valuable. Valuable means talkative. Again, not what we want. Let's eliminate this answer. Options seem feasible. Feasible means practical. Something close to what we have. Let's keep it on hold. Innocuous means something that is harmless. Again, not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. Prejudiced means biased, not what we want. Let's eliminate this answer. And viable means, feasible. Feasible is something that is close to practical. Let's keep this on old. So you see, we were able to eliminate four answer options. Option a, B, D, and E. So the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option C feasible and option F viable? Feasible and viable. Both clearly mean practical. Right? Both are similar and both of them clearly for this particular blank here. 30. 'WHILE'- Presentation Points: In this chapter, we're going to see how to identify the contradictory direction word. While. Before that, let's look at some presentation points here. So wireless used to indicate contrast between two things. It's also a synonym for although you can use although and wild interchangeably. Let's look at some examples why you have this word while here. While most children learn to read easily, some need extra help, you can clearly see a contradictory idea in the sentence. Let's look at example two. While I agree with you, which is positive, I do not believe that your way is the best way. This is clearly a contradictory idea in the sentence. Let's look at the third example. The south of the country grows richer, while the north of the country grows poorer. Again, you can clearly see a contradictory idea in this sentence. This is how we can clearly understand that whenever you look at the conjunction, while you can clearly expect contradictory ideas in this particular sentence. 31. Example 17 - Etymologies of Alpha & Omega: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the first example. For the first example is the etymologies of the words Alpha and Omega couldn't be more different. The former is obscure. The original symbol of alpha was an ox's head. And an ox is an Alpha in finishing, while the latter is dash, as omega simply means a big O. Let's look at the answer options here. So we have to fill this particular blank with two of the correct answers from the sixth answer options given to us. So let's look at the options. Option a, transparent option. B, complicated option C, Option D, erudite. Option E, abstruse, and option F, scholarly. Let us see how to do this particular question. We're going to do this question by using the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplified, predict, and eliminate. Let us identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. The direction word here is why. Like we saw earlier, while clearly indicates that you have contradictory ideas in the same sentence. Let's look at the context clue word in the sentence. The context clue, what tells you that the former is obscure. The farmer is nothing but the first one. The first one is obscure, right? So we can clearly have a particular sentence here. We can clearly get an idea. The structure would be the farmer is obscure while the latter is Stash, right? Obscure means something that is hidden. Obscure means something that is hidden, something that is not clearly seen. So the first one is hidden. The first idea is sitting. While you can hear clearly see a phrase, you can clearly expect a phrase which is opposite of the word hidden. Hidden is clearly a negative idea. So that's where you can clearly expect a positive idea in the sentence. With this, let us try to simplify the sentence. So we get the farmer idea is unclear, which is negative. Or upstream obscure, while the latter is dash. So here you have a positive idea. That is what the wild tells you in the sentence. So you can clearly see how we have such a huge sentence here. But we can clearly reduce that sentence into a small, very simple sentence like this. So that is the key of the GRE sentence equivalence. That whenever you convert the whole sentence into a very small sentence like this, the mind is more focused and we're clearly able to identify what the blank can be by using the direction word and the context clue words in the sentence. So with this, let us try to predict our own answer. What do we get here? Yes, the former is unclear, but the latter is clear. Look at this. The former is unclear, which is negative, which is obscure, which is hidden. While the latter is clear. So you can say something, the latter is open, right? Or the latter is transplant. This is clearly what we have. Having this in mind, let us eliminate options that don't match the choice. Option a is clear, this is clearly the correct answer. Let's keep option a on hold. Option B, complicated, hard to understand. This is not what we want. Let's eliminate it. Option C, overt, overt means clear. So we can clearly keep it on hold. Option E a to write. Erudite means well educated. This is clearly not what we want. Let's eliminate this option E, abstruse. Abstruse means something that is mysterious. Clearly not what we want. We can eliminate this option if scholarly, which means learned. Again, this is not what we're looking for. We have the two answer options which are very close to clear, right? So we were able to eliminate option B, D, E, and F. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a transplant and option C over so transparent and overt. Both of these clearly mean something that is very, very clear, right? Which is the opposite of obscure. So both these words clearly fit this particular blank here. And they are also similar in meaning. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 32. Example 18 - The muted colors: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the second example for y. Let's look at the example to Wiley. So here you have the word while here, which is a contradictory idea. While the muted colors do suggest a certain sobriety, the overall effect is undeniably dash. So here we have a blank in this particular sentence. And we have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options from the options given to us. Option a is vivacious. Option B. Option C, Option D, lackluster. Option E, mouthful, and option F, benign. Let's see how to do this particular question using the four-step action plan. So here we're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. Let us look at the context clue was in the direction. What direction we're like we clearly saw is why while clearly tells us that you have a contradictory idea in the sentence. And the context clue clearly is sobriety. Now sobriety means some things that That's something that is very dull. Write this clearly. This clearly describes the muted colors. Okay? So how is, how are the muted colors? The muted colors are dull. This word clearly describes the muted colors. Therefore, it becomes the context clue. Whereas wild gives us the direction of the sentence. It clearly tells us that the ideas are going to contradict each other. This is what we get. Wine, you have something that is sobriety, which is clearly negative. The other phase is going to be positive. This is the clear, this is clearly the work of wildly, wildly liters, is that while you have something that is negative, you're going to have something that is positive. So this particular blank is clearly going to be a positive blank. With that, let us simplify the sentence. We can get something like this. While the muted colors or dull, the overall effect is dash. So we know that the overall effect is something that is the opposite of dull. Right? Let's predict our own answer. So you can come up with something like this. While the muted colors or dull, the overall effect is lively. Lively is a very positive word and it's clearly the opposite of that, right? It's a very simple sentence and we clearly got here, lively. Lively is a very positive word. Now with this, we know that we can eliminate dancer options that don't fit lively. Let's look at the options. Option, a vicious, vicious means very lively. Let's keep this on hold. This is clearly what we want. Pregnant means, sad. This is not what we want. We can clearly eliminate the answer. Again, LDL is not what we want. We can eliminate the answer. Lackluster again, which is something that is dull or lacking, something where we don't want this answer, we want a very positive one. So mouthful means cheerful. Yes, mouthful would mean something that is very lively, cheerful. This is clearly what we want. This clearly looks a positive idea. Let's keep it on hold. And benign means kind. Nullcline does not mean lively. Okay? So we can eliminate this answer. Kind is a completely different context, right? So we have clearly illuminated option four options here. Option B, C, D, and F are eliminated. And the correct answer by the process of elimination is option a, vivacious an option E mouthful. These two options clearly fit the blank, lively. And they are also similar in meaning. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 33. Example 19 - Spa’s remote location: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at a third example for y. Let's look at the question here. While traveling to the spouse. Remote location could be hectic. Visitors to the spark more than made up for the stress by unwinding in a supremely dash environment. Here you have a blank and you have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options given to us. Let's look at the options. Option a, if you use it. Option B, Pacific, option C, duplicitous, option D, sensors, option E, placid, and option F, blight. So these are the six answer options that you have. With this, let us try to predict our own answer. So we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict, and eliminate. We're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. The direction word is clearly, while this word clearly indicates a contradictory direction to the sentence, the context clues hectic. So hectic clearly describes the remote spar location. So the location will all the travel was very, very hectic, right? So the hectic clearly describes the traveling to the spar. With this, what do we get? While the travel was hectic, which is clearly negative. A positive phrase must follow in the sentence. So that is what while tenses that you have contradictory ideas in the same sentence. Let us eliminate, sorry, let us simplify the sentence using context clues. So we get, while traveled to this power was hectic, which is negative. The environment was supremely dash positive. Okay, So in spite of the travel or wind, air travel was hectic, the environment was supremely dash. So with this, you can predict your own answer. You can get something like this. The travel was very hectic. The environment was peaceful, right? While the travel was hectic, the environment was very peaceful. So this is what we get in this blank, right? So we know that we have to choose some particular word which is clearly close to peaceful. Now we're going to eliminate options that don't match peaceful. Let's look at option a. Option a is effusive, which is lavish. Know language is not peaceful. We can eliminate that answer. Pacific means peaceful. Yes. This is what we have. Let's keep Pacific on-hold. Duplicitous means deceitful or playing a double role. This is clearly not in the context of a sentence. We can eliminate the answer. Since various would mean disapproving. Again, not in the context of the sentence. Let's eliminate it. Placid means come are very peaceful. This is clearly what you have. Let's keep it on hold. Plasmid is something that is very close to peaceful. Now blight would means very careless. Again, not the context of what you want. So now we can clearly see that we have managed to eliminate four answer options. So the answer options that we were able to eliminate, option a, c, d, and f. So the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B, Pacific, and option E, placid, Pacific and plastid. Both of these mean the same thing. And they are clearly putting the blank, which is peaceful. 34. 'DESPITE' - Presentation Points: We're going to see how the contradictory direction word despite can help us fill the blank. Now, despite is used to express a contradictory idea between two things. So the similar words for despite our, even though in spite of an Aldo. So make sure that when you look at Despite, you can also substitute those with these kinds of conjunctions, even though in spite of an Aldo, the main thing you need to know is that despite we'll connect two contradictory ideas in the sentence. Let's look at the first example. I still enjoyed the week, which is positive despite the weather. So clearly it's indicating a negative condition with the word despite. Let's look at the second example. Trains are running, which is positive, despite the snow, which is clearly a negative factor. Let's look at a third example. The overall situation is good, which is positive, despite a few minor problems, which is negative. And then let's, let's look at the fourth one. Despite her illness, which is negative. She came to work which is positive. So you can see how the Despite connects to conduct trade. Yes. 35. Example 20 - Roderick's Ideas: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the first example for Despite. The first example is when Roderic was young, he dashed the ideas of becoming a physician. Despite his father's interminable boasting about Roderick eventual leadership of the family business? This is the question. Now will have pre-fill your answers from these six answer options you need to fill to answer options that fit the blank. Let's see how we're able to do this. First, let's read the options. Option a, fostered option B, option C, cultivated option D, preferred option E, aggrandizement, and option F elucidated. Let's see how to do this particular question. Now we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Now we're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. Let's look at the context clue was in the direction of words. So here we have the word despite, which clearly indicates that it's a country tree direction, which means that two contradictory ideas would follow, just like we had seen in the examples. Now the context clues in interminable boasting, which is given by her father. Interminable boasting clearly describes how the Father looked at rhetorics, progress, or how the Father looked at Roderick success. The father was very desperate about Roderick eventual joining in the family business. And therefore, you can clearly see this continuous boasting or endless boasting. This is clearly the disk. This is clearly a describing word about rhetorics. Further, now let us see how we can simplify this particular sentence. We can get something like this. Roderick dashed ideas of a physician, despite his father's nonstop boasting about the family's business. So despite the father wanting Roderick to get into family business, here, you have to put an idea telling that Roderick was not interested in joining the family business, right? So something like this you would get Roderick was not interested to join the family business despite his father's continuous boasting of Roderick finally entering the family business. So this sentence could clearly indicate that Roderick was not interested in family business. Or you can also try to put it in this way. If Roderick is not interested in family business, he has to be interested in something else. This can clearly indicate that Roderick was clearly positive about something else, which is the other way of saying that he was not interested in family business. With this, let us try to predict our answer option. We can say something like a Roderick cherished and the ideas of becoming a physician. Despite his father's continuous boasting of him joining the family business. We can clearly see this idea here. Rodrik did not like to enter the family business, despite his father's continuous boasting about him entering the family business. So the other way of saying is that rodrik really loud or cherish the ideas of a physician. Now since I know that the context is cherished, what you could do, you could use this particular word to eliminate the answer options that don't fit the context of cherished. Let's look at the first one. Fostered means nurture. Nurture clearly means to cherish. This is clearly close to what we have. Let's keep this on hold. Thwarted means to prevent. This is not what we want. Let's eliminate it. Cultivated means cultured. Cultivated clearly means culture. Now, culture will clue closely mean something close to cherished on something close to deeply affection it by something else. So you can keep this on hold. The next option is preferred, which is nothing but offer. This is clearly not what we want. Let's eliminate it. Aggrandizing, which means to magnify the situation. Again, this is not what we want. Let's eliminate it. Elucidated means to explain in detail. Again, not at all related to our answer. So you can clearly see that there are four answer options that we were able to easily eliminate. They were Option B, D, E, and F. So these were the four options that we were able to eliminate. And we're left with two answer options, that is option a and option C. So the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a, foster an option C cultivated. These two are finally similar in nature, right? And they also clearly fit the blank. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 36. Example 21 - The Noble Aristocrats: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the second example for despite. Question number two. Despite implications of their noble status, many aristocrats were virtually penniless and lived in a state of cash. Here you have a particular blank, and you have to fill this blank with two correct answer options from this particular from the sixth answer options. Let's see what are the six answers. Option a, indigence, option B, opulence, option C, eminence, option D, option E, depravity, and option if complacency. Let's see how we do this particular question. You have the four-step action plan, which is identifies, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. So now we can clearly see that despite the context, sorry, despite this, the direction word, which clearly tells us in which direction the sentence wouldn't go. So clearly we will have contradictory ideas in the sentence. Now if you look at the context clue, it is noble status, which clearly describes these. They had a very noble status which is positive. And you can also say, but by finally at the end, they were penniless. That means it's clearly negative. Right? So this is how we get the context clues and the direction was in the sentence. So the structure would be something like this. Despite their noble status which is positive. We know that this blank is going to be something negative. So with this, let us try to predict, let us try to simplify our answer. We get despite the noble status or despite the reputable status, which is positive, many aristocrats were penniless and lived in dash. This whole part must be clearly negative. Now we clearly have this word penniless, which means no money. So this word must also be very similar to penniless, which means something close to being very poor. With this, let us try to predict our own answer option so we can get something like this. That there were many, many aristocrats are penniless and they live in a state of extreme poverty. This is how we can come with our word. And that word here is poverty, which is very close to penniless. Knowing this, let us try to eliminate answer options that don't fit the context. Now, indigence means extreme poverty. This is clearly what we have. Let's keep this on hold. Let's look at opulence. Opulence means some great wealth, which is clearly indicating a positive idea. Let's eliminate this particular sentence. Eminence would mean, again, greatness. For example, the eminent professor Stephen Hawking. So it's clearly something later to greatness which is positive. So we don't want this answer. Penny remains no money. Extreme state of poverty. This is something what we have. Let's keep it on hold. Option E, depravity, which is corruption. Again, not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. And option F, complacency, which means self satisfaction. Again, not our answer. Here you can see we were able to eliminate four answer options. And they are Option B, C, E, and F. So we're left with the two correct answer options. They are Option a, indigents and option D, Penny Reed. Now these two answer options clearly fit the blank and they are also similar in nature. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 37. Example 22 - Appliance manufacturers' belief: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at a third example for Despite. The question is, despite appliance manufacturers would have you believe otherwise, items like blenders and toasters are not requirements for the creation of a delicious meal. For centuries, our ancestors cooked with all these modern dash. So again, here you have a blank. And you have to fill this blank with two correct answer options from the given options here. Option a would be conveniences. Option B, hindrances, option C, requisitions, option D, option E, incidence, and option F utilities. Let us see how we do this particular question. Then we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. The context clue words and the direction words, despite will clearly indicate a contradictory direction in this particular sentence. It will clearly tell you that the phrases are going to contradict each other. Now the context clue, another context clue, the blenders and toasters, because this is, this is clearly describing the items or the appliances that we're looking for, right? So the whole passage is clear, talking about blenders and toasters. Okay? So this is the context clue word and the direction word. Let's try to simplify the answer so we can get something like this. Blenders and toasters are not needed to make a delicious meal. Our ancestors cook to without these dash, right? So blenders and toasters are not needed to make this, make a good meal. And the ancestors were able to cook with all these stash. This is also clearly indicating without these dash. This is clearly indicating that the dash must be something related to blenders and toasters. Okay, so let's come up with our own answer option. We can come up with something like this. Blenders, toasters are not needed to make a delicious meal because the ancestors were able to cook with all these appliances. Because blenders and toasters are nothing but appliances. So you can clearly see how the context clue is trying to help us figure out the particular blend to this answer. So knowing that this blank is particularly Lee called appliances, let's try to eliminate options that do not fit the context. So we have option a, conveniences, which means comforts. This can include closely mean appliances because blenders, toasters are nothing but comfort, so they're just luxuries. So this is clearly close to what we have. Let's keep it on hold. Hindrances means obstacles, not what we're looking for. Requisition means something that is in demand. So this is again, not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. Creeds means religion. Again, not at all related to our answer. Incidence would mean events. Again, not related to our answer. And utilities means benefits. Utilities would clearly refer back to these appliances. This is clearly a benefit, which means it's clearly a luxury. We were able to eliminate four answer options. They are Option B, C, D, and E. So the correct answer by the process of elimination is option a, conveniences and option F utilities. Both of these clearly for the blank. And they are also similar in nature. 38. 'IF' - Presentation Points: We're going to see the conditional clause if. Let's look at some presentation contents for if. Now, first of all, if it's used in a conditional sentence to introduce the circumstances in which an event or a situation might happen. Let's look at the structure. So whenever you have an if, which is clearly telling us the condition, what would happen here or condition would come here, and then a main clause would come. This main clause is definitely known as the result. Okay? So whenever we have an if here, it clearly tells us that if that particular condition happens, then the particular result will happen. Let's look at some examples. If it rained, you would get wet. So look at the condition here. If the condition is something that is rained, then obviously what would happen, the result will be that you will get wet. Let's look at the second example. If I find her address, I sent her an invitation. So this is the condition here. I finding her address is the condition here. If that happens, then this result would be, I will send an invitation. Let's look at the third example. If I study, I will pass the exam. So the condition is if I study and only then I will be able to pass the exam. This is the result. And the fourth example, she felt she would hurt herself. If this condition happens. If xi false, then the result is she would hurt yourself. You can clearly see how clearly tells us that if that condition happens, then obviously the result will be happening. So by knowing the results, we can clearly feel the condition. Or by knowing the condition, you can clearly feel the result. 39. Example 23 - Iconoclastic Theories: Hello everybody. Welcome to the first example of a. Let's look at the first example. If he had not had the dash to follow his own iconoclastic theories in the face tougher, apparently unassailable conclusion of the excepted experts in the field, progress would have been inestimable is slower in this area of knowledge. Here we have to have the blank here, and we'll fill this particular blank. Two of the correct answer options from the six options given to us. Let's look at the answer options. Option a, incentive, option. B, Audacity, option C. Option D, incapacity, option E, unwillingness, and option F. Let us see how we are going to this particular question. For that, we'll use the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the context clue words and the direction of words in the sentence. The direction word is. So if clearly tells us that there is a condition to be followed, and according to the condition, the result will happen. And let's look at the context clue. The context clue is iconoclastic theories. This clearly describes the theories. How the theory is were they were iconoclastic. Now, iconoclastic clearly means something that's going away beyond the normal. Something that's very unusual. That is the meaning of an iconoclastic theory. This word clearly tells us how the theories are. Let's see what do we get? We get a very simple structure this way. If he had not had the dash to follow iconoclastic theories, progress would have been slower. This is a simple structure we can get. Now let's simplify this particular sentence and see exactly what you can fill in the blank. If he had not had the dash to follow his own iconoclastic theories, progress would have been slower. Right? So in order to follow something that is iconoclastic, what should the person have? If he had not had a dash to follow his own iconoclastic theories, progress would have been slower. This clearly means that he had that particular dash and progress was very fast. Okay. The sentence can clearly workout to the same thing that he had the dash to follow his own iconoclastic queries. Therefore, progress was very fast. Okay? So with this, let us try to see what word you can predict. We can come up with something like this, a very simple word. If he had not had the guts to follow his own iconoclastic theories, progress would have been slower, which means he had the guts to follow his own iconoclastic theories. And progress was very faster. Okay, the word that we came up here is guts, or simply put. It is just boldness, extreme boldness. With that, let's eliminate the four answer options. Let's look at option a. Incentive. Incentive means motivation. It is not close to guts, so let's eliminate it. Or Udacity means baldness. Yes. This is clearly close to what we have. Let's keep that on hold. Option C, temerity. Temerity also means to be very daring or to be very bold. Let's keep temerity on hold. Incapacity. Incapacity means in ability. Again, not what we're looking for, we can eliminate that answer. Unwillingness would mean hesitation. They're not what we're looking for. We can eliminate that answer and visit him means intelligence. This is also not what we're looking for. We can clearly eliminate dancer. So you see, we have been able to eliminate four answer options that don't fit the context. Those four answer options. Option a, option D, option E, an option F. These four answer options. So we were able to eliminate the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B, Audacity, and option C. Or D. Audacity and temporality. Both of them mean to be extremely bold or to have extremely amount of extreme high amount of cuts. Both of them mean the same thing. And both of them clearly for the blank here. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 40. Example 24 - Punishment for transgressions: Hello there. Welcome back to the second example for let's look at the question. Punishment for transgressions of the law reduces to have an immediate effect if the punishment is frequently dash. So here you have a blank in the sentence. You have to fill this particular blank with two answer options from the given answer options. Let's look at the answer option. Option. A arbitrary option be changed. Options, see waved option D, lenient. Option E, commuted, an option F applied. Let's see how we do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. So let's identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. We get. If if clearly tells us that there is a condition to be followed and the blank, we'll go according to the condition. The blank clearly tells us the result and the contexts clues reduces the immediate effect clearly describes the punishment. Ok, so it reduces to have an immediate effect clearly describes the punishment. Alright, so let's look at the structure of the sentence. Now we can see something like this. The punishment reduces this effect. If here we have to fill up the condition in the sentence. Okay? On what condition will the punishment reduces its effect? On what condition will the punishment reduce its effect? That is what we have to fill up. So you can clearly see this is a condition and this is the result. Okay, let's simplify the sentence using context clue words and the direction words. So we get something like this. Punishment loses its immediate effect. If the punishment is frequently dash, okay? So the punishment loses its immediate effect, right? Or it loses that strictness. If the punishment is frequently dash. Let's try to come up with our own answer. We get something like this. The punishment loses its immediate effect if the punishment is frequently not applied here. So obviously the punishment if there is a punishment given by the punishment is not applied, then probably the punishment would clearly lose its immediate effect. What is the use of the punishment than if it's not applied, right? If it's not applied, the punishment would clearly lose its effect. Okay, let's see which of the following options can be eliminated that don't match the choice, not apply. Let's look at option a. Option a arbitrary, which means random. Again, this is not close to what we're looking for. We can eliminate this answer. Option B changed, which means swept. Again, not close to not apply. Let's eliminate this answer. Options. See you waved option C wave does not apply it. Yes. Which clearly means close to what we have. Let's keep it on hold. Option D, lenient leaning means are very forgiving person or a very, what do you say? Very nice person, right? So again, this is not close to what we have because it's clearly talking about the person, the nature of the person, right? So let's not keep this, let's eliminate this. Now. Commuted means to reduce. Reduce also clearly means to not apply, right? If something is not reduced, something is reduced. It clearly means that it's not applied that often. We can keep this on hold because this is close to what is not applied. Then the last option is applied to put in, which is clearly not the answer. Let's eliminate this. Look at options. Eliminated. Option a, B, D, and F are eliminated. And therefore the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option C, waved. An option E, commuted. Right. So waved and commuted clearly mean not apply. Something that's not applied. And they both are similar in meaning. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 41. 'X is UNLIKE Y' - Presentation Points: That x is unlike Y or X is not like y. Let us see what do you mean by this particular phrase. It clearly means that something is different, right? Or x is different from something else. Okay? Unlike is nothing but a preposition. Okay? So similar words or the similar ways of saying x is unlike y would be something that is unexpected, something that is different, something that is dissimilar, something that is not typically the characteristic of all these things. All these words mean the same thing that x is unlike. Why? Let us look at some examples. Dance, actually very nice. Unlike his father. So clearly, clearly contradicts Dan with his father. Telling the Dan is a very nice person unlike his father, which means x is not y, right? Let's look at the second example. Unlike you, I am not a great dancer. That means x is not. Likewise, I'm not like you write. So you can clearly see how you're using this word. Unlike, Let's look at the third example. Man's ability to talk makes him unlike any other animal, which means man is not like other animals set, all right, X is unlike y. And let's look at the fourth example. He's unlike you to be so outspoken. So clearly we have something like x is unlike why? 42. Example 25 - Politician’s earlier evasions: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the first example of x is unlike y. Let's look at the first example. Unlike the politicians earlier, evasions and aqueous locations, this latest statement is a dashed line. So here you have a blank in the sentence, and you have to fill this particular blank with two answer options from the sixth answer options given to you. So let's look at the answer options. Option a. Option B, option C. Option D, didactic. Option E, rhetorical, an option F, implicit. Let us see how to do this particular question. So first we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Now let us identify the context clue words and the direction words in this sentence. The direction word is clearly unlike. Okay? So unlike clearly tells you, when you look at the moment to look at the word, unlike, it clearly tells you that x is unlike. Why? So like we can be clearly seen, we have clearly eliminated. We have clearly, we're clearly able to identify a phrase here, x is unlike white. Right? Now let's look at the context clue. In other contexts, clue is what? The context clues, evasions and vocations, right? So unlike something is unlike IV agents and equivocation, that is what you get. Okay? So let's look at this. We have the direction word, we have the context clue. Now we have to form a similar simple structure. We get like this, unlike evasions and ego occasions, something. Okay? So we have this x here and x is unlike white. Okay? X is unlike Hawaii. Okay? So you can clearly see that this word here, this x here, this phrase here should be unlike or should be something different to a reagents and equipment patients. With that, let us simplify the sentence so we get something like this. Unlike IV agents and equal occasions, this statement is a dashed line. Earlier there was evasions. Evasions and equally locations would mean either being very neutral or trying to evade or trying to run away from the topic. The politician used to either be neutral on the topic given to him or used to run away from the topic. Now, unlike that, this statement is a dashed line. Now we know that the statement is a lie here, which means it is clearly not equal to something that was an evasion or an equivocation. This is a dashed line. So you can say that this is something of a very big glide. It is clearly not close to evasions and location. This is a straightforward. With that, let's eliminate, let's predict our answer options. So we can see something like this. Unlike evasions and EQ occasions, this statement is a clear light. It's a very big light, right? Or it's an open light. It's an open line. What do we have here? We have unlike evasions. Unlike evasions would mean unlike hiding away from the problem. Right? This is an open light. Okay? So let us see which answer options are close to a clear line or an open light bar. It means obvious. Obviously would mean a very clear line. So let's keep this on hold. Let's look at the second option. Pass. It means implied. Implied is not what we're looking for. We can eliminate that answer. We're looking for a clear answer. It's not something that is implied or word means clear, right? Over to something more. Do you want let's keep that on hold because it's a clear line. Didactic would mean, it would mean instructional or teaching moral values. This is not in the context you can eliminate. This. Rhetorical would mean stylistic, stylistic device. So you don't want this answer, you can eliminate that. And implicit would mean implied, which would mean clearly that is implied or not clear. But you're looking for something that is very clear. You can clearly eliminate implicit. So we have managed to eliminate option B, C, E, and F, four answer options. We were able to eliminate. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a bald, option D over bald and all word would mean clearly open or something that is very, very clear or not hiding, right? So these two answer options clearly if in the blank here, and they are also similar in nature. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 43. Example 26 - Smithers as chairperson: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the second example for the phrase X is unlike white. Let's look at the question. When Smithers took over as the chairperson, her colleagues, we're looking forward to a less confrontational time on the Board of Governors, Since the reason that no one else was likely to be as dash as a producer. So here you have a blank and you have to fill in this blank with two of the correct answer options from the sixth options given to you. Let's look at the answer options. Option a, modern option. B, aggressive option. C, flexible option. D, bellicose, option. E, complement, option F, jaundiced. Let us see how to do this particular question. Here we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identifies, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the direction of words and the context clue words in the sentence. So the direction word would be known as was likely to be like her, right? You can clearly see here that no one else was likely to be like, which is clearly indicating that there is a phrase, something like x is unlike y, right? We can clearly indicate that you have a phrase here, x is unlike Hawaii. Now the context clue would be less confrontations. Let's confrontations or less conflicts. So someone is not going to have less confrontational time. That is the clue that we have, right? So this is what you have. Let's simplify the sentence using the context clue words. You can get something like this. So they were looking forward to less confrontations as no one else was. Dash as a professor. Prednisone is nothing but the previous person. Right? Now it clearly says that the previous person had a lot of confrontations or had lot of conflicts. Therefore, these people who are looking forward to a less confrontations, okay? Because they knew that the new person is clearly not going to be like the old person or the previous person, right? The previous person had lot of conflicts. That is what the sentence tells us. The previous person had lot of conflicts. And clearly you have x is going to be unlike y, which means the new person will probably not. We'll have probably have less conflicts. Let's predict our answer option. We can get something like this. They were looking forward to less confrontations as no one else was. So confrontational as separate essa. They were looking forward to less confrontations as known as no one else was. So confrontational. Confrontational would mean conflicts, right? So they're looking forward for less conflicts as no one else was so conflicting, like the previous person. We're looking for something which is close to confrontational. With that, we can eliminate answer options that don't match our context. So option a would be modern, which means sarcastic, sarcastic. We're looking for something that is confrontations, okay? Sarcastic is not what we want. You can eliminate that answer. Aggressive means violent. Yes. While it is something that is clearly close to having high conflicts, or someone who is violent will clearly have lot of confrontations. Let's keep it on hold. Flexible is a very nice word, very adaptive. This is not what you want because we want someone that is really confrontational or having a lot of conflicts. Now bellicose would mean aggressive. Now someone who's aggressive will clearly have a lot of conflicts. So we can keep this on cold. Option E complacent, agreeable, which is a very positive idea, not what you want. You can eliminate that option if jaundiced, which means suspicious. Now suspicious is clearly out of context. So you can clearly eliminate this answer. So you see we have eliminated four answer options. Option a, C, E, and F. We were able to eliminate the correct answer for this question. By the process of elimination would be option B, aggressive and option D, bellicose. Bellicose and aggressive. Both of us both of them they mean conflicts. So both of them are similar. And they clearly for the blank, which is confrontational. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 44. Example 27 - A “Mycenaean waist”: Hello there. Welcome back to the third example for X is unlike white. Let's look at the question of Mycenaean waste refers to the impossibly small wastes characteristic of certain ancient drawings found on the street. And it certainly does not damage any characteristic of modern overweight Western societies. So here you have a blank in this particular sentence. You have to fill in this blank with two correct answer options from the six options given to you. Let's look at option a. Option a is d phi. Option B depict option C, denigrate, option D, mirror, option E, D fame, and option F distorted. Let us see how to do this particular question. Let's look at the four-step action plan. So you have identified simplify, predict, and eliminate. So we're going to identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. So what do we get here? The direction word would be refers to write x is unlike why you clearly have a context telling us that Mycenaean weight, waist refers to something, which means X refers to something. What is y? Y is a taut and impossibly small waist characteristic of an ancient writings. And it does not dash the third thing, right? So x refers to y and it does not refer to z. This is something what you have here. I'll just write it down here so that it'll be easy for us to understand. X refers to y and not z. This is also another way of saying x is similar to why? Okay, with that, Let's simplify the sentence. So you can get something like this. Mycenaean ways. This would be, our statement, refers to small wastes, which is nothing but y and does not dash modern overweight societies, which is nothing but z. So you clearly have the direction word here refers to. So this clearly tells us that x will refer to y and it doesn't refer to z. With this red is predict our own answer options. We can come up with something like this. It's a very clear answer. So Mycenaean waste refers to small wastes. And it does not refer to bigger wastes, or it does not refer to modern overweight society is small based on anything but the thin waist is drawn generally on a wall paintings. We know that we have to look for a forward for a word to refer to. Let's eliminate entrepreneurs and don't match our context. Option a is d phi, which is worshiped. This is not what you want. We can eliminate the answer. Option B, depict, which means to portray. Portrayed clearly means to refer to. So let's keep it on hold. Denigrate means to attack. This is not what we want. We can eliminate that mirror means to represent or to refer to. This is clearly what we would like, like, let's keep it on hold. Defame means to insult, which is clearly not you want what you want. Let's eliminate that. And distort would mean Christian, something that we don't want. Right? Now, you can clearly see we have managed to eliminate four answer options. So there's four answer options or Option a, c, e, and f. So the correct answer by the process of elimination for this question would be option B and option D mirror. So depict and mirror. Clearly. Both of these clearly means it refers to both of these would clearly fit the context here. 45. 'SURPRISING STATEMENTS' - Presentation Points: Surprising statements that indicate contradictory ideas. So surprising statement is a statement that is completely unexpected, right? That is completely unexpected. Similar words would be something that is unexpected or surprising sequence of events. This is how you generally look at a surprising statement. Let's look at some examples. There was certainly a surprising turn of events, which means we did not expect that. Let's look at the second example. Her statement had a surprising effect on the dean. That means we did not expect that she would have a comment on the dean, right? It turned out to be very surprising. Let's look at a third example. It was surprising how quickly he made up his mind and put his resolve into execution, right? That means we did not expect that he would do it so quickly. And let's look at the example. Surprising enough, they both proved to be interesting topics, which means earlier, we thought they wouldn't be interesting topics, but they turned out to be interesting. 46. Example 28 - The legend of Custer: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at surprising statements. Example to look at the question, dash, adherence to outdated political ideas and defunct sets characterize the last years of a man who had surprisingly been one of the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s. So again, you can clearly see a surprising statement coming up here. Now we have to fill this particular blank with to answer options from the given six choices. Let's look at the answer options. Option a, intransigent, option B, vacillating. Option C, sectarian option D, confused, option E, frantic, and option F dogged. Let us see how to do this particular blank when we know that we have a surprising statement given in this particular sentence. Okay, let's start with a four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict, and eliminate. What are we going to identify? We're going to identify the context clue words, and the direction words on this particular sentence. So what do we have here? First, we have a direction word, which is surprisingly, surprisingly tells us that there will be an idea or there will be a phrase which is not expected as per the previous phrase. We're going to see a phrase that is not expected. That is the meaning of a surprising phrase or a surprising idea. Something that is not expected is definitely going to see in this, we're going to see in this statement right now, what does that phrase that is not accepted? That all we are not going to generally see it. Look at this data. Adherence to outdated political ideas and defunct sects characterize the last years of a man who had surprisingly been one of the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s. So if you look at this particular person, it is a very surprising thing that he was the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s. Got it. So this is clearly giving us a hint on who this man was, right? So this man was the most flexible thinker of the 1920s. And right now, if you look at his last years, if you look at the last years of a man, you'll be very surprised at how can this person be the most flexible thinker or one of the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s, right? So this is the whole context that we are getting. Alright? So let's sunlight that we have surprisingly, which is the direction word tells us that we have a surprising idea. And most flexible is the context clue in the sentence. With this, let us simplify the sentence using the context clues and the direction word. So what do we get here? The last two years of a man? R dash two outdated ideas. Surprisingly, this person was one of the most flexible thinkers in the 1920s. Okay? So the fact that he was one of the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s is a very surprising thing. Which means the last years of this particular person would be completely on flexible. So he should be some somewhat who is totally on flexible. Okay? So this part, the first part of the sentence, should tell you that he's a very flexible man. His last years are completely on flexible, right? Which is nothing but the opposite of flexibly. With this, let us try to predict our own answer as to what we get here. We could get something like this. The last years of a man or completely inflexible to outdated ideas and political ideas. Surprisingly, this person was the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s. Okay? So we can clearly see that we got a word which is clearly opposite of flexible, right? Since it's a very surprising thing that he was the most flexible of the 1920s. Right now, you should be totally inflexible. With this. Let us try to eliminate our answer options. Let us see which options are close to inflexible. So look at this intransigent. Let's look at option a intransigent. So trans, if you look at this word here, trans, it means able to move. Alright, able to move from one place to the other. But if you look at this word in transient, it means not able to move, right? Not able to move from one place to another would mean it would mean that the person is not flexible. Okay. So this is what we have close to what we have. Let's keep it on hold. Let's move to the next option. Vacillating. Know vacillating means oscillating. Oscillating means something like this. One time the person is an idea a, the second time the person is on Idea B, again, the third time he is again back on idea. Again the fourth time back on Idea B. So this means he's vacillating over idea a and B. Okay? This is not what we want. Let's eliminate the answer. Let's look at a third answer. Sectarian means atheist or a nonconformist. Sectarian is something that we're not looking for because we're looking for something, some Award which is very close to flick inflexible. Okay, let's eliminate option C sectarian. Let's look at Option D. Confused. Now the man is not confused for sure. The man does not confused. His last years doesn't indicate that he was a confused person. It clearly indicates that he was an inflexible person. Let's eliminate option D. Confused. Let's look at option E, frantic. Now again, it's not out of control. It doesn't describe that is last year's were totally out of control. You have to choose something that is totally inflexible, right? So let's eliminate option E loops. Let's look at option D. Option F. Option F would be dogged. No dog is something that is stubborn or someone who is very fixed or very firm only on one particular idea. So someone who's firm on one particular idea, you can also call that person to be inflexible, right? Because he's not flexible, he's not able to move. He is not able to adapt from one idea to another idea, right? So what do you mean by flexible? Flexible means a person who can move from one idea to another idea. He can, he can go on any ideas. Today. He can be on a tomato, they can accept idea B. So a person who is inflexible would mean he's not okay with any other idea. If he looks at idea a, he will only think of idea a and not any other idea. So in other word, word of saying, another way of saying inflexible means that he is very firm on what he knows, on what he's, he's very firm on his particular standard. So this is something what we're looking for. Let's keep option F on hold. Okay? So with this, we are easily able to eliminate four answer options. Those four answer options or option B, C, D, and E, right? So we were able to eliminate option B, C, D, and D. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a, intransigent and option F dogged. So intransigent and dogged would mean completely inflexible. So these two words clearly fit the blank. And they are also similar in context. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 47. Example 29 - The thinker of the 1920s.: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at surprising statements. Example to look at the question, dash, adherence to outdated political ideas and defunct sets characterize the last years of a man who had surprisingly being one of the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s. So again, you can clearly see a surprising statement coming up here. Now we have to fill this particular blank with to answer options from the given six choices. Let's look at the answer options. Option a, intransigent, option B, vacillating. Option C, sectarian option D, confused, option E, frantic, and option F dogged. Let us see how to do this particular blank when we know that we have a surprising statement given in this particular sentence. Okay, let's start with a four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict, and eliminate. What are we going to identify? We're going to identify the context clue words, and the direction words on this particular sentence. So what do we have here? First, we have a direction word, which is surprisingly, surprisingly tells us that there will be an idea or there will be a phrase which is not expected as per the previous phrase. We're going to see a phrase that is not expected. That is the meaning of a surprising phrase or a surprising idea. Something that is not expected is definitely going to see in this, we're going to see in this statement right now, what does that phrase that is not accepted? That all we are not going to generally see it. Look at this data. Adherence to outdated political ideas and defunct sects characterize the last years of a man who had surprisingly been one of the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s. So if you look at this particular person, it is a very surprising thing that he was the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s credit. So this is clearly giving us a hint on who this man was, right? So this man was the most flexible thinker of the 1920s. And right now, right? If you look at his last years, if you look at the last years of a man, you'll be very surprised at how can this person be the most flexible thinker or one of the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s. So this is the whole context that we're getting. Alright. So let's sunlight that we have surprisingly, which is the direction word tells us that we have a surprising idea. And most flexible is the context clue in the sentence. With this, let us simplify the sentence using the context clues and the direction word. So what do we get here? The last years of a man? R dash two outdated ideas. Surprisingly, this person was one of the most flexible thinkers in the 1920s. Okay? So the fact that he was one of the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s is a very surprising thing. Which means the last years of this particular person would be completely on flexible. So he should be some somewhat who is totally on flexible. Okay. This part, the first part of the sentence, should tell you that he's a very flexible man. His last years are completely on flexible, right? Which is nothing but the opposite of flexible. With this, let us try to predict our own answer as to what we get here. We could get something like this. The last years of a man or completely inflexible to outdated ideas and political ideas. Surprisingly, this person was the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s. Okay? So we can clearly see that we got a word which is clearly opposite of flexible, right? Since it's a very surprising thing that he was the most flexible of the 1920s. Right now, you should be totally inflexible. With this. Let us try to eliminate our answer options. Let us see which options are close to inflexible. So look at this intransigent. Let's look at option a intransigent. So trans, if you look at this word here, trans, it means able to move, Right? Able to move from one place to the other. But if you look at this word in transient, it means not able to move, right? Not able to move from one place to another would mean it would mean that the person is not flexible. Okay. So this is what we have close to what we have. Let's keep it on hold. Let's move to the next option. Vacillating. Know vacillating means oscillating. Oscillating means something like this. One time the person is an idea a, the second time the person is on Idea B, again, the third time he's again back on idea. Again the fourth time back on Idea B. So this means C is vacillating over idea a and B. Okay? This is not what we want. Let's eliminate the answer. Let's look at the third answer. Sectarian means atheist or a nonconformist. Sectarian is something that we're not looking for because we're looking for something, some Award which is very close to flick inflexible. Let's eliminate option C sectarian. Let's look at Option D. Confused. Now the man is not confused for sure. The man is not confused. His last years doesn't indicate that he was a confused person. It clearly indicates that he was an inflexible person. Let's eliminate option D, confused. Let's look at option E, frantic. Now again, it's not out of control. It doesn't describe that is last year's were totally out of control. You have to choose something that is totally inflexible, right? So let's eliminate option E. Looks, Let's look at option D. Option F. Option F would be dogged. No, dog is something that is stubborn or someone who is very fixed or very firm only on one particular idea. So someone who is firm on one particular idea, you can also call that person to be in flexibly, right? Because he's not flexible. He's not able to move. He is not able to adapt from one idea to another idea, right? So what do you mean by flexible? Flexible means a person who can move from one idea to another idea. He can, he can go on any ideas. Critique he can be on a tomato, you can accept idea B. So a person who is inflexible would mean he's not okay with any other idea. If he looks at idea a, he will only think of idea a and not any other idea. So in other words, word of saying, another way of saying in flexible means that he is very firm on what he knows, on what he's, he's very firm on his particular standard. So this is something what we're looking for. Let's keep option F on hold. Okay? So with this, we are easily able to eliminate four answer options. Those four answer options or option B, C, D, and E, right? So we were able to eliminate option B, C, D, and D. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a, intransigent and option F dogged. So intransigent and dogged would mean completely inflexible. So these two words clearly fit the blank. And they are also similar in context. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 48. Example 30 - Lewis and Clark expedition: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the third example of surprising statements. Let's look at example three. Because the Louis and Clark expedition through the West was conceived primarily as a mapping project. Government officials were dashed by the wealth of information on a myriad of topics that the explorers gathered. From here we have to choose six. From these six options, you have to choose two answer options that clearly fit the blank and that are clearly similar. Let's look at option a. Option a is aggravated. Option B is flabbergasted. Option C, crushed. Option D by dazzled option E, board, an option F, disappointed. Let us see how to do this particular question. Now we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. The direction word and the context clue words here are, here we have two contexts clue words given to us because we have a lot of words that describe the expedition, Right? Let's look at what words describe the expedition. So the expedition was conceived as a mapping project. Okay. This is the first term or the first word that describes the expedition. That it was conceived as a mapping project. Okay? But what happened? The government officials were dashed by the wealth of information on a variety of topics. Summarize of topics would mean that very great of a vast number of topics they collected. Okay, now look at the surprising element here. This expedition was clearly conceived as a mapping project. But what happened? They got a lot of information on the particular expedition. Alright, so with this, we have identified the two contexts clue words in the sentence. Now we're supposed to find the direction word in the sentence. The direction word is clearly telling us that they found a minute of topics, right? That idea or that part was very strange. Since it was conceived as a primarily, primarily as a mapping project only. They didn't expect to have any information. But when they got a lot of information about different kinds of topics than they were clearly surprised, right? So this is a very strange phrase that is expected or a strange idea. You can clearly see. With this lattice. Let us simplify the option, let us simplify the sentence we have. So we get something like this. The expedition was conceived as a mapping project, but the officials were dashed at a variety of topics gathered, right? So we can clearly see that they saw it only as a mapping project, which means they were expecting only a few pieces of information, only some information they were expecting. But they've got a **** a lot of information on lots of topics, right? Which means that the officials were clearly surprised with this. Let us predict our own answer. So you can come up with a simple word like this. The officials were very surprised when they saw a lot of information, right? So the expedition was conceived as a mapping project. But the officials were surprised when they saw information coming from in a lot of topics. With this, let us try to eliminate answer options that are not close to surprise. Let's look at option a. Option a is aggravated, which means to make serious. So this is not close to so price we can clearly eliminated flabbergasted. Gastric would mean greatly suppressed. So flabbergasted would mean someone who is very greatly surprised or very shocked. That is known as a flabbergasted, right? So we can keep this on hold because this is something close to what we want. Now crushed means broken. This has nothing to do with our context. You can clearly eliminate the sentence. Now, biodiesel means amazed, are very surprised, right? So here we have something that we want. Let's keep this on hold. Because buys or biodiesel means something that is clearly surprising or something that's clearly unexpected. Let's keep that on hold. Board means someone who lacks interest. This is not what we're looking for. We can eliminate this answer. And disappointed means someone who is unhappy. Again, where we're not looking for this particular answer. If you have clearly seen where we were able to eliminate four answer options that don't fit the blank, which is surprised. Those four answer options. Option a, option C, option E, and option F. So these are the four answer options we were able to eliminate. So the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B flabbergasted, and option D be dazzled. So flabbergasted and biodiesel, both of these mean the same thing. They are same in meaning and they clearly fit the context of being surprised. 49. 'X is LIKE Y' - Presentation Points: Let's look at some examples on why you can use x. It's like why? First of all, the like here in the phrase X is like why? The like here is a preposition. It's very similar to something, similar to something else. This is the meaning of the preposition. Now the other words are, you can use like you can use same, you can use similar. You can use typical, or you can use a characteristic of something else, right? So if I say x is similar to Y, that's the same thing as X is, Y exists typical to y. Again, the same thing as x. It's like why? Let's look at some examples. John loves spicy food, like me. So both of these people, myself and John, both of us like spicy food. Right? So I'm like John and John is like me, right? In the case of spice food. Let's look at another example. She looks like her mother. So here we're talking about both the person's appearance is, right. The girl looks like a model. Let's look at the third example. Like your father, I will help you as much as I can. I'm comparing the help my I'm comparing my help with the person with the Father's help. So you can clearly see how we clearly comparing two persons help. The fourth is that house looks like a castle. I'm comparing the house to the castle. So x is like why? This is how you can use, you can clearly understand what do you mean by x is like why? 50. Example 31 - Grandmother’s Feast: Hello there. Welcome back to the first example of x is y. Let's look at the question. Nothing evoke memories of her grandmother's house, like the dash of sense associated with the holiday feast. You can clearly see this likely this preposition like now here you have a blank and you have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options from the six options given to you. The six options are option a, option B, anomaly, option C, audio, option D, my lunch. Option. E. Option F will frame. Let's see how we lose this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. First of all, let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. The context clue words and the direction words are. The direction is clearly a direction where is clearly, like, you can clearly see this word here like which clearly tells you that something is going to be like something. Or x is going to be like why? The context clues are associated with holiday feasts. This is going to be the context of the sentence. This is clearly telling you how the grandmother's house was, right? The structural sentences like x is like the sense associated with feast is like y, right? So something is like the sense associated with the feast. That's the structure that you get. Now we want to simplify the sentence using the context clues. We can get something like this. Nothing evoked memories of her grandmother's house, like the dash of sense associated with the holiday feast. Like the dash of scents associated with the holiday feast. The First of all, we have a feast. When you have a feast, what happens? You have lots of varieties of food year. That's known as the fees. You'll have lots of varieties of food. First of all, that is known as a feast. You will have lots of people sitting in one particular table. You have lots of different types of food coming up. You'll have lots of these smells of different kinds of foods coming up that is clearly indicating what this particular blank and B, let's predict our own on so we can come up with something like this. Like the variety of scents associated with the holiday feast. Because like I told you, a feast will have a lot of collection of different food. Wedge, non-wage eateries, bakery items, or it may have even side dishes, right? Everything mixed together will get, you will get a feast. It's like a variety of scents associated with the holiday feast. Now we won't element answer options. Let's see which option is not close to variety. Let's eliminate that. Positive means scarcity, not close to what we want. We can eliminate that. And only means oddity, something that is odd. Again, not what we want. We can eliminate that means a mixed. And a mix is very close to a variety of sense. A mix of sense, a variety of sense, right? So obviously when there's a feast, obviously it will have, you will have a mix of cents or a variety of cells. So this is close to what we have in mind. Let's keep this on hold. Milan would mean a blend of something. Again, yes. A blend of sense of mix of sense, right? Very close to what we want. Let's keep this on hold. Duct is scarcity. We don't have scarcity here. In fact, we have the opposite of scarcity. And buffering means to steal, not, not at all related to the context. We have abled where we've managed to eliminate four answer options. Those are options a, B, E, and F. The correct answer which is close to variety, would be option C and option D, Milan. Both of these are very similar to variety or mix. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 51. Example 32 - Winnie's lighthearted approach: Let's look at the example here. Possessed of a lighthearted approach to life. We need thought that those who are dash in regards to values and most missed out on a certain liveliness and spontaneity, right? So those who are in dash, this is the blank here. We'll have to fill two answer options from the sixth answer options given to us. So option a, option B, option C, option 3D, readout table, option E, impious and option F, punk teleosts. Let's see how we'll do this particular question. We're going to do this question by using the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. The context clue is in the direction of words are the direction word would be those who were. Now if we look at the sentence, when he thought that those who are dash, this is clearly telling us that he's trying to compare someone with some other person. Those who are dash in regard to values and modes, they missed out on certain aspects of liveliness and spontaneity, right? So x is like why? Right? You can clearly see how he's trying to combat people, right? Who are the people is trying to combat those who are dashed with regards to values and morals. Those people who are similar to the people who missed out on certain liabilities and spontaneity. It clearly describes the people. So the structure is x is like those who missed out on certain liveliness and spontaneity. Let us simplify the particular answer using the context clues, we get something like this. So, who's possessed, possessed of a lighthearted approach life? He says, Those who are dash, missed out on certain aspects of liveliness and spontaneity. With that, let's come up with our own answer option. We can get something like very strict, right? So when E is possessed of lighthearted approach life, and he says that those who are very strict with respect to certain values, they missed out on certain liveliness and spontaneity. All right? So he doesn't want people to be extremely strict on values, right? Tradition. He does not want people to be so strict about life. He wants people to be lighthearted and relaxed, right? Otherwise, they are the people who misses, people who miss out on liveliness and spontaneity. Let's eliminate our answer options. Let's see which options don'ts don't match with very strict option, a lax catalyst. The catalyst is not close to, very strict. We can eliminate that equal, which means come. Again, not close to strict. Means ultra conservative. Freakish means pokey behavior, right? Or an ultra conservative behavior or an ultrasonic behavior. So we can keep that on hold. Readout double means all inspiring, which is not what we want. We can eliminate that answer. Impious means someone who's not bias, someone who's not wholly, right. So that would mean godliness. We can eliminate that answer. It's not close to what we want. And the last option is spontaneous, which means to be extra careful about everything that's close to what we want. So these type of people, according to winning, are the persons who missed out in certain liveliness in spontaneity. People who are very privileged about values and most people who are very punk teleosts. These are the two people who missed out on certain values of liveliness and spontaneity. We have managed to eliminate option a, B, D, and E. And the correct answer, or by the process of elimination would be option C and option F. Punk. 52. Example 33 - A petty man: Hello there. Welcome back to the third example of x is like why? Let's look at the question of petty man obsessed with, but in perpetual doubt about his own power, is surrounded himself with subordinates who could best be described as dash. Here you have a blank, and you have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options from the list of options given to you. Option a, option B, meridians, option C, psychophysics. Option D, quacks. Option E, aesthetics, and option F, silence. Let's see how we'll do this question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, ISP, identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the direction of words and the context clue words in the sentence. The direction word is surround himself with. He surrounds himself with. This is the direction word which clearly tells you that x is like y. So the person will surround himself with the person's just like him. Okay, that is the context clue of the sentence. So when you say X is like or like why, it clearly means that this particular person is surrounding himself with the people whom he wants to, whom he would prefer. Alright, so what do we get here? The direction would be surrounding himself with and the contexts would be to be obsessed with. But in perpetual doubt, this is clearly describing the man here. So how is the man? The man is in? The man is really powerful, but at the same time he's doubting his own bar. And he is in perpetual doubt of his own power. He is obsessed with par, but still is in doubt about his own power. So that is the man that we have here. That man would clearly attract friends like him, orphans, whom he would want. So let's say simplified answer option. Let's see what do we get here? We can get something like this. A pretty man obsessed with, but in perpetual doubt about his Dash, about his own bar is surrounded by dash subordinates. We have another word here, which is subordinates. So he will obviously surround himself by what kind of subordinates. That is, what is the blank here? Alright, let's predict our own answer. So we can get something like this. He surrounding himself by flatters or subordinates who flatter him. He likes people who flatter him, right? Because the man is obsessed with par. And obviously he's in self-doubt of his own power. So look at this. He's obsessed with that means he really wants more and more bar, but at the same time he's scared of it, is doubting his own power. So obviously you would like people to flatter him. He would like people to tell him that he's powerful, even though he may not be powerful. So he will always thrown themselves with people of whom he would only prefer, right? Let's eliminate the answer options. Let's see, Which is not close to flat rows. We can eliminate that option, a sages, not close to what we want. Meridians would mean a loyalist. Now, a loyalist is something that is close to what we want. Let's keep that on hold. Because a person who's a loyalist is nothing but a flatter, or a person who is a loyalist. Nothing but a person who will obviously flatter the other person, right? So that's some Omidyar. Psychophysics are again, nothing but flatters. Let's keep this on hold. Because flatters and I think, but people who are loyal may be fake or maybe truthful, but they are generally, generally the people who flatter the other person. Maybe for their own gain to quacks means fraudsters. Not what close to what we want. We can eliminate that. Aesthetics would mean simple. Again, not what we want. And silence would mean an alarm bell, not what we want. We can eliminate that. We have we have managed to limit option a, D, E, and F. Therefore, the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B meridians and option C cycle fence. So both these options, clearly, they are similar to flatters and they clearly fit the blank. 53. 'COLON' - Presentation Points: So the colon, they tend to lead, they lead to more inflammation or tell the reader that more details are going to come in the rest of the sentence. Got it. This is the main idea of the colon, that more information is going to be expected on the previous information. Right? If you look at the sentence structure of the colon, it would be generally you have the left-hand side of the sentence, followed by the right hand side of the sentence. Between the left-hand side and right-hand side of a sentence, you generally have this particular colon. Now, when you have a colon, it clearly means that this right-hand side of the sentence will give you more information on the left-hand side of the sentence. That's otherwise known as elaborating the information on the left-hand side. That is the main information on the colon that you will have to look for. Now how can we use this particular trick on the GRE sentence sequence? Obviously, if the blank is on the left-hand side, then you can understand that the right-hand side gives you more information, the left-hand side. So obviously the left-hand blank will be clearly related to the right-hand side. If the blank is on the right-hand side, which is giving you more information on left-hand side, then obviously you can use that to identify what the left-hand side kid could be. This is how the colon can help you identify the correct answer on the GRE sentence Sequence questions. Let's look at some examples on the colon. Let's look at example one, salad place, three spots. Here. On the left-hand side of the sentence you have she plays three sports, and then you have a colon here. Now look at on the right-hand side, what happens, softball, soccer, and tennis. So the right hand side tells you what are the three spots. It's giving you more information on the left-hand side. Let's look at example two. We have only two options here. Stay and fight, or unlike the window. So the left-hand side tells you that we have two options. And the right-hand side tells you what those two options are. Those two options or stay and fight or unlikely. Those are the two options. It's clearly seen that the right-hand side, we'll elaborate. I'll give you more information on the left-hand side. Let's look at a third example. There are three types of muscles in the human body. Cardiac, smooth, and skeletal. You can clearly see the right-hand side of the sentence tells you the three types of muscles in the human body. So those three types of muscles or cardiac, smooth and skeletal. Let's look at the fourth example. He wanted to see three cities in Italy, Rome, Florence, and Venice. Wrong fluorescent units tells you the three cities that this person wanted to see in Italian. It's clearly giving you more information on the left-hand side. 54. Example 34 - Mother’s Day brunch: Hello there. Welcome to the first example of the colon. Let's look at the first example. The children's attempt at a Mother's Day brunch was dash. Here you have a blank. You have a colon. Soggy French toast, karma, lukewarm coffee, comma. And instead of fight in the kitchen, that would inevitably end up being cleaned up by the recipient of the branch. So this is the particular sentence. Now you have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options from the given set of six choices that we have. Let's look at option a, viable option B. Option C, risible, option D, satirical, option E, farcical, and option F, lab. These are the six options that we have. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict and eliminate. First, we're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. Now clearly the direction word here is the colon, which tells you that the right-hand side is going to give you more information. On the left-hand side. That's the main information given by the colon on this sentence. So obviously you can look at this lot of information is given on the right-hand side. You can use this information to get to the blank on the left-hand side. Now let's look at the context clue. Let's look at the words that's describing the Mother's Day brunch, right? So all these things are the contexts, clues. Soggy French toast, you Kwame, coffee, and instead of fight in the kitchen, this is how the Mother's Day brunch was, right? So these things are clearly describing how the mothers Dave's branch was. So we will follow the direction word or the context clue words. Now the sentence, the sentence structure would somewhat look like this. Here you have the left-hand side of the sentence which has a blank. And on the right-hand side you have something describing the Mother's Day brunch. You can use that to find out exactly what the blank can be. Now let's simplify the sentence. Let's see what do we get? We can get something like this. The left-hand side tells you that the Mother's Day brunch was dash. And the right-hand side gives you clear examples of contexts, clues that we had soggy French toast, lukewarm coffee, and a syrup fight in the kitchen. Now let's predict our answer and let's see what the left-hand side of the sentence could be. Okay, we can get something like this. The Mother's Day brunch was clearly a laughable incident or it was clearly a very funny incident. Because all these things that you see on the right-hand side, they are all nothing but funny incidents. Soggy French toast. Who would want their French toast to be soggy, soaked in water? Who would want one there coffee to be lukewarm or who would want to give their guests lukewarm coffee, right? So who would want to have a syrup fight in the kitchen, especially when the guests are there and it's being cleaned up by the very guest itself, right? So all these things clearly tell us that the whole brunch party was really a very funny incidents are very laughable incident, right? So laughable is the word that we have here. We have come out with our own world, which is laughable. Now we're going to use lovable. We're going to say exactly what options we can eliminate. So let's create our answer. So let's eliminate the answer choices. Option a survival which is friendly. Friendly is nowhere close to laughable. We can eliminate that. I'm able is again, friendly, am able amicable. All these words are very friendly words. We can eliminate that. Risible is nothing but laughable or a very funny situation. Let's keep that on hold because it's a very funny situation and it's very close to the word we want. Satirical means to Mach. Now, here there is not something mocking incident. We don't have any information of making fun or something like that. But since we have laughable situation here, laughable and mocking is far different. Okay, let's look at the next one. Farcical. Farcical would clearly mean funny incident. Funny incident is very close to what we have, so you can keep that on hold. Then the last one is libel. Libel would mean something that is easily altered or going nowhere close to what we are looking for, we can eliminate that answer. So we have managed to eliminate option a, B, D, and F. The correct answer for this question would be option C, risible, and option E, farcical. So both these two clearly fit the blank. They are similar and they are clearly close to laughable. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 55. Example 35 - The Portrait Painter: Hello there. Welcome back to the second example of the colon. Let's look at the second example. Despite relying on the well-to-do for commissions, the portrait painter was no dash colon. He depicted the character of those who painted as he perceived it. Let's look at the examples here. You have the answer options. Option a, hypocrite, option. B, egotist option. C, sycophant, option D. Option E, braggart, option F, covered from these two up from these six options here I have to pick two answer choices that closely fill the blank. And they are also similar. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identifying, simplify, predict, and eliminate. You're going to identify the context clue words and the direction of words in the sentence. The context clue words are, yes, the colon is the biggest direction word in the sentence. It clearly tells you that the left-hand side of the sentence will be clearly right answers endings will give you more information on the left-hand side of the sentence, right? That is the direction Word. And let's see what words describe the portrait painter. Portrait painter depicted characters as he perceived it. He depicted the people are depicted the characters of those who painted as he pursued it, just like how we saw, that's how he drew the characters. This is clearly telling us how the portrait painter was. That is on the right-hand side of the sentence. So let's see what do we get here? We got a very simple structure like this. Portrait painter was no dash. This is the left-hand side of the sentence. He was no dash. Colon. This is how he was. He typically the persons as he perceived it. Right? This is the right-hand side. The sentence right-hand side elaborates on left hand side. So by using this information, we will clearly be able to understand how the portrait painter was. Now let's simplify this particular sentence using the context clues. Let's see what do we get. The left-hand side tells you the painter was no dash. And the right-hand side tells you, Hey, depicted characters as he perceived it. So the painter was no dash. Let's try to predict our own answer. Let's see what do we get here? Yes, the painter was no flatter. The painter was no flatter. He depicted the characters as he pursued it. Flattener would mean someone that flatters or someone who paint the portrait of a person, just like how the person wants it, right? So that is known as a flatter. This particular painter was no flatter. Then let's eliminate answer options that are close to flatter. Let's look at option a. So here we can choose, you can put in flatter. Now let's see which option is close to flatter. Hypocrite would mean a pretender. Pretended is nowhere close to a flatter. You can eliminate this answer option. Egotist means to show off. Again, not close to flatter. We can eliminate that option. Psychophysics would mean flatter, yes. So people who flatter others for their personal gain, right? That is known as a sycophant. So psychophysics is a flatter. This is what we're looking for. We can keep this on hold. Let's look at the next option emulator. Now add later is also a person who is a flatter or who person who modifies or changes its behavior as per the other person's taste, right? That is flatter. You can keep this on hold. Basically, we are talking about fake people. Braggart is someone who shows off not close to what we're looking for. We can eliminate that. And covered would mean a weakling. We can eliminate that. So you see, we were able to limit four answer options. There, option a, B, E, and F. So the correct answer which is close to flatter would be option C, psychophysics, and option D, isolator. So both these options clearly closely mean flatter and they are also similar in meaning. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 56. Example 36 - Deacon's impossible attempt: Hello there. Welcome back to the third example for the colon. Let's look at the question. Deacon attempts what seems to be impossible. Colon, a book rich insights in a demanding discipline that is nevertheless accessible to dash. Here you have a blank, and you have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options from the given options provided. Let's look at option a, skeptics. Option B, experts, option C, non-specialists, option D, zealots, option E, authorities, and option F, laypersons. So these are the six options that we have. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identifying, simplify, predict, and eliminate. First, let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. Let's see what do we get here. So the direction word in the sentence is the colon, which tells us that the right-hand side will clearly be elaborating the left-hand side of the sentence. And the context clue is something that describes deacon. That would become a context clue. Deacon wants to make a book that is written in scientific insights that too demanding discipline and it has to be accessible to dash. Got it. So this is the context clues that we have, right? Let's underline that. Yes. Now let's see what do we get here. This would be the common structure of the sentence. Deacon attempts to impossible this, this is the left-hand side of the sentence. And then you have the colon. And then the right-hand side of the sentence should tell you that the tasks that he is going to attempt are going to be impossible. Right? Let's simplify this particular sentence using the context clues and the direction we're on the left-hand side, we get the attempts, he atoms the impossible. And on the right-hand side, book that is rich in Insights, demanding discipline, and is accessible to dash. The right-hand side should clearly tell you that the whole thing is clearly impossible to obtain. With that, let's predict our own answer option. We could get something like this. So Deacon wants to make a book, rigid insights, demanding discipline, and is accessible to beginners. You just think can see when you have a book which is rich in Insights, which is, which is also in a demanding discipline, like a very challenging discipline. And still even a beginner can understand this book or read this particular book. Or a person who has no knowledge can still understand something very complicated, such as this. That is clearly an impossible task to achieve. And deacon tries to achieve that. We have found out that this book has to be accessible to beginners or people who are not an expert, right? Very ordinary people, very common person, right? So that would be the correct answer. Beginners. Beginners would be something like, let's say common person's trying to understand the theories of black holes, right? Imagined a very common person trying to understand the theory of a black hole and the theory of, let's say space, all these things, right? And still is able to understand that, that kind of a book he's going to make, which is really impossible. Now let's eliminate answer options that don't match the word close to beginners. Skeptics are the doubters. Not our option. We can eliminate that. Experts. Again, not our option. We're not looking for expert people here. Non-specialists, something, someone who's an amateur, someone who's a new person. We can keep that on hold. Zealot sued mean enthusiasts. Right? This is again, not what we're looking for. We can eliminate that answer. Authorities would mean power. Again, not what we want. We can eliminate that answer. And laypersons would mean non-experts are very common persons. This is what we want. We can keep this on hold. So you see, we were able to eliminate four answer options that are not close to beginners. Those four answer options are options a, B, D, and E. We have eliminated. The correct answer is going to be option C, non-specialists and option of laypersons. Non-specialists and laypersons. Both of them mean beginners or no wise people, new people. And they are similar in meaning. And they clearly fit the blank. 57. 'CAUSE AND EFFECT' - Presentation Points: In this chapter, we're going to look at a similar expression which states the cause and effect pattern. First, let's look at what do you mean by a cause and effect pattern. So cause and effect is generally a relationship shown between events where one is the result of the other. Let's look at this structure. So you have something happening which is the cause. And that leads to an effect. So that would be the effect. So you have a cause and effect pattern. Let's look at an example. Because the alarm was not set, We will lead to work. So this would be the cause and this would be the effect. Let's look at the second example. Since school was canceled, we went to the model. This was the cause. And the effect is that we went to the model. Let's look at a third example. John made a rude comment. So Elyse hit him. This is the cause. The root comment is the cause and the hitting him is the result of that. Let's look at the fourth example. Betty completed each task perfectly, so she was promoted. Again, a positive and a positive result. 58. Example 37 - “The dismal science”: Hello there. Welcome to the first example of cause and effect relationship. Let's look at a question. In the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle called economics the dismal science. In part because of Malthus's theory that population growth would outpace natural resources, causing widespread dash. Here, you have a blank and you have to fill this blank with two correct answer options from the six options given to you. Option a, option B, option C, rupture, option D, ravishment, option E for mine, and option if debauchery. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict and eliminate. First, let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. The context clue words in the other direction words here would be the cause and effect. So what is the cause? The cause here is that population growth would outpace natural resources. So when population growth outpaces natural resources, this is clearly the cost. What will be the effect? Widespread dash, that would be the effect. Okay. So this particular phrase is the effect. Now, it depends on the cause. The cause is positive. The effect is positive. If the cause is negative, the effect is negative. So this is what we get. The cause is that the population growth would outpace resources. According to that effect will happen. Let's simplify the sentence using the context clues. We can get something like this. The population growth would outpace natural resources, causing widespread dash. Now we know what blind, what can be the blank in this particular sentence? Let's predict our own answer option. We can get something like this. It would cause widespread shortage. Obviously it will cause a shortage of food because population growth outpaces natural resources will clearly lead to something shortage. With this, we can clearly eliminate answer options that don't fit the blank of shortage. Let's look at option a. Dirt. Dirt means capacity, which is clearly shortage. Let's keep dirt on hold. Multitude would mean Elegans. This is clearly not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate the answer. Rupture would mean euphoria, excitement. This is again, not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. Ravishment means delightful. Again, not what we want. We could eliminate this answer. Famine mean shortage. Shortage means something that is a dearth, something that's extremely in dire straits. So shortage would be the clear answer. Let's keep this on hold. And debauchery would mean corruption. This is clearly not what we are looking for. So we see we have eliminated four answer options from this. Option B, C, D, and F. So the correct answer, but the process of elimination would be option a and option E for mine. So dirt and for mine clearly mean shortage of natural resources. Both of them mean the same thing and both of them clearly fill-in-the-blank. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 59. Example 38 - Iceland (A living laboratory): Hello there. Welcome to the first example of cause and effect relationship. Let's look at a question. In the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle called economics the dismal science. In part because of Malthus's theory that population growth would outpace natural resources, causing widespread dash. Here, you have a blank and you have to fill this blank with two correct answer options from the six options given to you. Option a, option B, option C, rupture, option D, ravishment, option E, famine, and option of debauchery. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict and eliminate. First, let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. So the context clue words in the other direction words here would be the cause and effect. So what is the cause? The cause here is that population growth would outpace natural resources. So when population growth outpaces natural resources, this is clearly the cost. What will be the effect? Widespread dash, that would be the effect. Okay, So this particular phrase, Perfect. Now, it depends on the cause. The cause is positive, the effect is positive. If the cause is negative, the effect is negative. This is what we get. The cause is that the population growth would outpace resources. According to that effect will happen. Let's simplify the sentence using the context clues. We can get something like this. The population growth would outpace natural resources, causing widespread dash. Now we know what blind, what can be the blank in this particular sentence? Let's predict our own answer option. We can get something like this. It would cause widespread shortage. Obviously it will cause a shortage of food because population growth outpaces natural resources will clearly lead to something shortage. With this, we can clearly eliminate answer options that don't fit the blank of shortage. Let's look at option a. Dirt. Dirt means Cassidy, which is clearly shortage. Let's keep dirt on hold. Multitude would mean Elegans. This is clearly not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate the answer. Rupture would mean euphoria, excitement. This is again, not what we want. We can eliminate this answer. Ravishment means delightful. Again, not what we want. We could eliminate this answer. Famine mean shortage. Shortage means something that is a dearth, something that's extremely in dire straits. So shortage would be the clear answer. Let's keep this on hold. And debauchery would mean corruption. This is clearly not what we are looking for. So we see we have eliminated four answer options from this. Option B, C, D, and F. So the correct answer, but the process of elimination would be option a and option E for mine. So dirt and for mine clearly mean shortage of natural resources. Both of them mean the same thing and both of them clearly fill-in-the-blank. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 60. Example 39 - The hallucinatory dreams: Hello there. Welcome back to the third example of the cause and effect relationship. Let's look at the third example. The hallucinatory dreams and visions are succeeded by nostalgic, melancholy and dash. Here, you have a blank, and you have to fill this blank with two correct answer options from the six options given to you. Option a and nightmares. Option B, ruminations. Option C, connotations. Option D, phases, option E, actions, and option F, emotions. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the context clue was in the direction words in the sentence. Like we saw in the earlier class. The direction word and the context clue. What will be the cause and effect pattern happening here? What is the cause here? This person called a Harrison, a treat dream and vision, that was the cause. And what is the effect here? It was succeeded by, succeeded by what means that? That came after the cost. It was succeeded by nostalgic melancholy dash. So this is the, so according to the cause, the result will happen. So v we get the cause is allocated dreams and visions. And the result would be a nostalgic, melancholic dash. Let's simplify the sentence using the context clues. We get. The health-related dreams and visions are succeeded by nostalgic, melancholy dash, or we can predict our own answer. We can come up with something like this. The hallucinatory dreams and visions are succeeded by nostalgic, melancholic thoughts. First, this person got a hallucination, Alice, me to dream and vision. And then he was having nostalgic melancholy thoughts. Melancholy means sad thoughts, right? Which means he was clearly thinking about the meaning of that particular dream and that particular vision. He was clearly thinking about it deeply. Thoughts is something what we're looking for. Let's eliminate the answer options. Option a, nightmares, nightmares or night terrors. Night terrors are not thoughts. We can eliminate that. Rumination would mean pondering or the act of sitting and thinking deeply about something. This is what we want. We can keep this on hold. Connotations is again, thinking the act of sitting and thinking deeply about something. We can keep that on hold. Phases means stages. Nowhere close to what we have. Actions against steps. And emotions would mean feelings. Again, these are not close to what we have. So the only two answer options that are close to what we have would be ruminations and connotations. We have eliminated option a, option D, option E and F. So the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B, ruminations and option C, connotations. So both of these clearly the blank and they are similar in meaning. 61. 'SO THAT' - Presentation Points: In this chapter, we're going to look at a statement that emphasizes a result in the form of this particular expression. That expression is so plus an adjective or an adverb plus that plus result. Let's look at some examples. So we can use with adjectives or adverbs plus that plus to explain a result. So this would be a general structure of the statement. So adjective adverb, that result. Let us look at some example. My Chinese room was so untidy that he could not find anything he was looking for. So untidy is an adjective that he could not find anything he was looking for. This clearly tells us the result of the sentence. You kill tens is the result of this particular adjective. It was so untidy that result, the result is equivalent. Finally thing he was looking for. Let's look at the second example. The machine works so loudly that I have a headache. So loudly, loudly is again an adjective that I have a headache. The headache is the result. Let's look at the third example. You are so beautiful that I can't get my eyes of you. This is the sentence structure. So adjective that and the result is I can't get my eyes off. You. Look at the fourth example. He eats so much sugar that he may be a diabetic. So heat so much sugar that he may be a diabetic. So the result we are trying to predict that he may be a diabetic. 62. Example 40 - The VP's understanding: Hello there. Welcome to the first example of soap plus adjective, adverb plus that plus result. Let's look at the first example. The Vice President's understanding of the company's broken budgeting system was so damage that it caused increasing problems every time she got involved in the process of fixing it. You can see a particular sentence structure here. It was so dash. Obviously, we can fill this with an adjective that describes the Vice President's understanding, right? That it caused increasing problems every time she got involved in the process of fixing it. Let's look at the options. Option a, denigrate. Option B, substantial option. C, bile tree. Option D, ineffectual, option E, estimable, and option F limited. From these six options, we have to select two correct answer options that filled the particular blank. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identifies, simplify, predict, and eliminate. First, we're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. The direction word would be. So plus adjective adverb, plus that. It caused increasing problems, right? So this is an example. This is the result statement of the particular phrase. So plus adjective, adverb plus StatPlus result. You can clearly understand in the sentence, the Vice President's understanding of the company's broken budgeting system. So that means we are saying that the understanding was so dash that it caused increasing problems every time she got involved in the process of fixing it. Right? So the understanding was so dash here you have to have an adjective that describes the understanding. The understanding was so dash that this is a result. The result is every time she got to know the process of fixing it devil problems, right? This is a result. So based on this result, you can clearly understand what this adjective can be, right? Let's look at the sentence structure. The sentence structure is soda ash, that it caused increasing problems every time. Right? Now let's simplify the sentence using the context clues. Let's see what do we get here. The VPs understanding or soda ash, that it caused increasing problems every time she got involved. When the result says that it caused increasing problems and that would cause every time when she got involved double problems, right? Why? Because the result is negative. If the result is positive, obviously the adjective is positive. Right? Now let's predict our own answer using the context clues. So we can get something like this. The VPs understanding was so bad, right? We're coming up with a negative adjective here so bad. Why? Because the result is negative. It caused increasing problems every time she got involved in the process of fixing it. Right? So again, another direction word or you can say the context clue word is every time, which means, let's say she got involved ten times. And as per the statement, it caused increasing problems every time she got enrolled in the process of fixing it. It means that all ten out of ten, they were problems. That means her knowledge would be close to something like 0 out of ten because every time when she got involved, then we'll problems. Obviously, your knowledge is close to nothing, right? It is so bad. Clear. With this, we can eliminate answer options that are not close to this particular adjective, which is bad. Let's eliminate the answer options. Degenerate means Corrupt. Corrupt is not close to bad. Corrupted. We give you a different context so we can eliminate that. Substantial means. Considerable. No, considerably clearly tells you that there is some knowledge, right? Some knowledge cannot give a, give you a very bad result. So this is clearly not the answer because we're looking for a very bad particular adjective. Now, poultry is something that is negligent. Yes, If you look at this, this can clearly see the blank. Let's keep this on hold. Because when you say that the Vice President's understanding was so negligent, then it can cause it can cause increasing problems every time she got involved in the process of fixing it. Why? Because it was very negligent. Negligence means it was close to wrapping. This can be one answer. Let's go to the next stanza. In effectual means ineffective. Ineffective also means that it's nothing that it's not effective at all, it's completely ineffective. So this could clearly indicate that the Vice President's knowledge of the broken budgeting system was almost close to nothing or it's totally ineffective. Right? We can, we can keep this answer to on hold. Let's look at the E option estimable. This is a very positive word. It's respectful, clearly not what we want. We can eliminate that answer. And limited means, restricted. This is also not what we want. Because restricted means that is something, right? The park is not empty, that is something in the pot. So this isn't clearly not what we want because our again, our word that we're looking for is her knowledge was 0 out of ten. If we were to grade her on a scale of 0 to ten, this is where she stands. How do we know that she stands at 0? Because we have the word every time. We clearly have the word every time, which means if she attempted, let's say ten times or ten times, all the times they will problem. That means there was not even a single time where she proved to be a success. So every time clearly indicates that our knowledge is a big 0 out of ten, which clearly is a blank, which clearly tells you that was so bad, that was close to nothing. With this, we can clearly understand that tree and ineffectual are close to 0 out of ten on nothing. Right? So we can eliminate option a, b, e, and f. And the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option C, poultry and option D, ineffectual. So paltry and if a ineffectual, both of them mean completely bad. And both of them clearly fit the blank. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 63. Example 41 - The dancers' performances: Hello there. Welcome back to the second example of this phrase. So plus adjective, adverb plus that, plus result. Let's look at the question. The dancers performances on stage was so unexpected that a field trip had to be arranged and this troop of dashed answers could observe the real masters of art. So we have this particular blank. We have fulfill this particular blank with two of the answer options from the six options provided. Option a, seasoned option. B, fledgling option. C, expert option D, torpid, option E, novi is an option F. Let let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the context clue words and the direction words. The direction word Is. It was so unexpected and inexpressible is clearly the adjective in our sentence, in this particular phrase, it was so unexpected that and what is the result of the sentence? A field trip had to be arranged. This is the particular result of this particular adjective. So when you say that a field trip had to be arranged and this troop of dashed answers could observe their real masters of their art, then it clearly means that the result is nothing. This result is clearly a negative result because a field trip had to be arranged in these people or these dancers had to be taught exactly how to dance on stage. You got it. It was so unexpected. So they have given us the phrase, it was so unexpected that a field trip out to be arranged with this phrase. So plus adjective plus that plus reasoned with this phrase, we can get to this particular blank. Right? So a direction world would be so plus inexpressible plus that, plus result. And the contexts could be, they could observe the real masters of art that clearly describes the expert people, the real monsters. Let's see what do we get here? The structure is so inexpensive that a field trip had to be arranged, right? So plus adjective plus that, plus result. This is a result of the sentence. Let's simplify the sentence. We get the dancers performances was so poor that this troop of dashed answers could observe the real masters of art. I know that the word must clearly be a negative word because these people had to observe the real masters of art. Let's predict our own answer. We can come up with something like this. The dancers performances was so poor that this troop of beginners could observe the real masters of art. So only a beginner will obviously observe a real master, right? A person who knows something, or a person who is almost close to a noise or a beginner or a newbie. That is the person who will look at the real masters of art and learn from them. Anyway, they dance performances was very poor. That's why they had to observe from the real masters of art. With that, we can eliminate the answer options that don't match the phrase beginners. Option. A seasoned experienced, clearly not what we're looking for, we can eliminate that answer. Fledgling means infant. Infant means a baby or someone who's new in the particular field. This word infant clearly matches the beginners, right? It means these beginners are also very new in the field, right? That's what a field repair to be arranged. Exports, not what we're looking for. Torpid means sluggish. Again, they're not sluggish doesn't mean that there's they're sluggish. It means that when when someone is a new person, who doesn't mean that the person is sluggish. Non-whites means a beginner. This is clearly what we want. We can keep this on hold. And lift means graceful. These dancers were Nova graceful. We can eliminate that. We have eliminated option AAC, D, and F. And the correct answer for this particular question, which is close to beginners would be option B fledgling an option E, no whites. So fledgling ANOVA is both of these mean the same thing, which is close to a newbie or a big enough. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video. 64. 'FAR FROM SOMETHING' - Presentation Points: We're going to see how this phrase far from something will help us find, find out the correct answer to the blank. So far from something is generally used to say something that is very different, or that is, that is very different is true, or something that happens. You can also say something that is not at all palatable to something. Let's look at some examples so you can understand this. Yes, Our business is far from a success right now. That means it's very far from success. That means it's very close to failure. So if, for example, if this is success and this is failure of the sentence tells you that our business is far from success. That means it's close to failure. Got it. If it is far from failure, that means it's close to success. Got it, That is the meaning of a sentence. This is how you can clearly find out. You can use this method to also find out what the blank can be. So our business is far from success right now, which means it's close to failure, but we refuse to give up. Let's look at the second sentence. He was far from being a notorious bureaucrat. That means he was a very good bureaucrat. This is a positive idea. Look at the third example. He is far from being a person who has heard the most. That means he was a person who has not heard the most, which is again positive. And then look at the fourth example. The ships are on a mission that is far from being legal. That means they are close to something illegal, right? So this is the meaning of the phrase to be far from something. 65. Example 42 - An innocent prank: Let's look at the first example. Far from something. Question number one. Far from being an innocent prank, the action is a dashed attempt to spoil my reputation. So with this, you can clearly understand that when they say far from being an innocent drank, that means it's clearly not innocent. Okay. Anyway, let's see how to do that. We have to fill this particular blank with two of the correct answer options from here. So option a would be malicious. Option B, salubrious. Option C, knife. Option D is satisfied. Option E, innocuous, and option F callus. Let's see how to fill this particular blank. Again, we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identifies, simplify, predict, and eliminate. We're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. The context clue words are far from being which clearly state that it's the conflict tree expression, right? So far from being, okay. And we have innocent prank, which clearly describes the prank which was really innocent, right? So this is the phrase we get. Now look at the structure. We can get something like this. Far from being in an instant prank, Right? The action is dash, attempt to spoil my reputation. Which means I know the phrase can be something negative, right? Why? Because it is far from being something positive. Okay, let's look at how we simplify this particular question. We can get something like this. The prank is far from being innocent. It's a dash attempt to spoil my reputation. We know the blank is going to be negative here. With that, let us predict our own answer. We can get something like this. Since it's far from being an innocent prank. Obviously the brand is very close to a very bad prank or evil prime, right? So bad or evil is something that we are looking for. With that, you can eliminate the answer options or don't fit the context. We're going to see which word is close to even malicious. The word malicious clearly tells you that it is a very bad prank, are very evil prank. Let's keep it on hold. Because it's very bad. Salubrious means very healthy. This is not what we're looking for. We can eliminate that. Naive means very, very innocent, very unsuspecting. Again, clearly not what will, what we want. Let's eliminate it. Saturday and means gloomy, which is very, very dull. Again, this is looking, this looks like as if it looks only for some appearances or something. So this is not what we're looking for. We can eliminate it. Innocuous means harmless, which means something that is really, really good, which is clearly not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. And callous means cold hearted. So this is closely very similar to evil or very bad. So we can keep this on hold. We were clearly able to eliminate option B, C, D, and E. So the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a malicious and option F callus. Now both these answers are clearly similar in meaning and they clearly fit this particular blank here. 66. Example 43 - The Biographer's tone: Let's look at the second example. Far from something. Let's look at the second example here. The dash tone of the biography is far from being expected. Since both the biographer in a previous works and how subjects in all that she has written as valued liberty over solubility. Let's look at the four-step action plan. We're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in the sentence. The context clue words are the direction what would be far from being something? Okay? This is clearly giving us a direction that it's not close to what is expected. Okay? The context clue would be liberty over solubility. Because this is clearly telling us how her previous works were. In all the previous works, right? Shared valued liberty over solubility. Okay, So this stone is far from being expected. Let us see exactly how to simplify the sentence. We can get something like this. The dash tone is far from being expected. Because earlier she valued liberty, which means something humorous, over solubility, which means something serious. If you were to look at it this way. If this is something that is seriousness, and if this is something that is humorous, right, the dash tone is far from expected. Earlier she valued liberty over solubility, right? So earlier she was valuing humor. This is what she valued earlier. When this particular tone, this new autobiography, the audience where you expected clearly that are autobiography would again be something humorous, right? But the new tone is far from expected. That means it's far from being humorous. It has to be something close to. Solemnity are serious. This is how we can understand. With that, let's split our own answer. We can say something like the serious tone was far from expected. Because earlier the biographer valued liberty, which is humorous over solubility, which is serious. So we can clearly see how this particular words serious plays a huge role on this particular sentence. With this, let us celebrate our answer options that are not close to series. So option a lugubrious, which means gloomy and sad. This is clearly close to what we have, which means it's clearly DL. Let's keep this on hold. Jaunty means cheerful. This is what we generally use to describe very lively children, cheerful children. So we don't want this answer. Let's eliminate it. Geocodes, again means playful. This is not what we want. Let's eliminate it. Frivolous means lighthearted. Again, not what we want. Let's eliminate it. Ironic means contradictory. Again, this is not what we're looking for. And melancholy means sadness, which is a dark and gloomy. This is close to what we have. Right. Now. We can clearly see that we were able to eliminate four answer options. They are Option B, C, D, and E. Therefore, the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a, lugubrious and oxygen if melancholy. 67. 'ONLY' - Presentation Points: Let's look at the conditional clause only. Let's see how only can help us find out the blank of the sentence. Now if you want to look at the word only, let's see how it works here. So first of all, only means that there is just one of something and there is nothing of others. This is what only tells us, right? Let's look at the structure of the sentence. Only x and not anything else. So this is the only condition that will happen. In no other conditions it would happen. This would be the structure for the phrase only. Let's look at one example. The budget can be balanced only if programs are cut for the next year. So this is the condition. Only on this condition, the budget would be balanced. Otherwise the budgets will not be balanced. This is the only condition than the budget would be balanced. Let's go to the second example. Only if the two votes agree with the deal goes through. So this is the only condition in which the New Deal we go through. There is no other condition that the deal will go through the deepened probably fail. At a third example would be, he writes, Only when he feels inclined to. This is the only condition where he would write. That is no other condition that he would write. So by just looking at the phrase only by the conditional clause, you can clearly know how the sentence will generally look like on the, and we can use that phrase to figure out the blank in the sentence. 68. Example 44 - The abundant compound: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the conditional clause only. For example one. The given question, which is, the compound, is abundant in the environment at large and its presence in the ad, it's not only in the warm form of underwater sediment does it cause damage. So this is the question given to us. Again, we have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options given to us. So let's look at the answer options. Option, a trivial option be detectable. Option C, delete truss, option D, substances. Option D, E, detrimental, an option if inconsequential. Let's see how to do this particular question. Here. Again, we're going to use the ISP four-step action plan. Here, we're going to identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's see what are we going to identify? We're going to identify the context clue words, and the direction words in the sentence. So in this sentence, Let's see what is the context clue in that direction? Would the context clues only? Yes. This is the word that gives us the direction to the sentence. And it tells us that look, there is a condition that's going to come up, right? And then let's see what is the particular condition, that is the context clue that tells us what is the particular condition. So anything that is describing, describing the particular noun would be called a context clue. Other condition, only in water, it causes damage. So this is clearly describing the compound that it causes damage. Let's look at the condition here. Yes. So this is the condition that we get only in water, it causes damage. This is the complete condition that we get. Using this condition, let us simplify the sentence in our own words. So what do we get? The components? Presence in the air is not only in the form of water, it is damaging. Write the components present in the ad is not dash only in the form of water, it's damaging. Now it would be clearly easy for us to make a guess on what this particular blank could be because there's a condition that follows and this is the only condition that it will follow. There is no other condition, right? With this, let us predict our own answer. Let's see what do we get here? We can get something like this. The conditions, the compounds presence in the ad is not damaging. Only in the water. It is damaging, right? So we can clearly see that only in water it causes damage and there is no other place where it would cause damage. So obviously it would not be damaging. This is clearly telling us what the blank would be by knowing the condition. So now we know that the blank is going to be damaging. Let's use this to figure out our answer option. We're going to eliminate answer options that don't match our word, which is damaging. So option a would be trivial, which means something that is a very less importance. This is close to being eliminated. Let's eliminate this. Detectable is something that is identifiable. Again, this is not what is what we're looking for. Let's eliminate this delete truss. Truss means something that is harmful or something that is damaging. This is plugged, probably going to indicate a right answer. Let's keep this on hold because this is close to what we have in mind. Substantive would mean meaningful. Meaningful is again, something not what we wanted. So let's eliminate this. Detrimental would mean damaging. Yes, detrimental clearly means damaging, which means harmful. This we have let's keep it on hold because this is close to what we have. An inconsequential would mean, unimportant, something that's not important, Let's eliminate it. So now you are able to eliminate four answer options. So you can clearly see that we are able to eliminate four options. Those options, or option a, B, D, and F, right? We have managed to meet four answer options that don't match the word damaging. The correct answer we have would be by the process of elimination is option C, delete truss, and option E detrimental. So these are the two correct answers that we have. They fit the blank. And they are also similar in meaning. 69. Example 45 - Visually oriented film studies: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the second example for the conditional clause only. Let's look at the example in film studies or discipline that dash only visually oriented aspects, such as backlit close-ups, eyeline matches, and wires to gazes. Scholars have been tone deaf to music. So here we have this particular blank, and we're supposed to fill this particular blank. Which two of the answer options from the six options given to us? Let's look at the six options. Option a, fixated on option be obsessed with option C, unconcerned with option D, amused by option E bothered by and option F indifferent to. Let's see how we do this particular question. Yes. So here we have the four-step action plan, which is identify, simplified, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. So the direction word is only which tells us that look, there is a condition coming up. The context clues, visually oriented aspects. This clearly describes the film studies that they are only visually oriented. So this is what we get. The condition would be only and the context clue be visually oriented. This is what we have. Then with that we're able to get our condition. The condition is that film studies are only visually oriented. This would probably indicate what the blank is going to be. With this, let us simplify a sentence using the context clues. We get something like this. Film studies dash only visuals, and it has been tone deaf towards music. This is the sentence we get. It has been don't have to almost everything else. But here they've given us the example for music. Film studies dash only visuals and nothing else. This is the condition for only knowing this. Let's predict our own answer that would fit the blank. If you could get something like this. Film studies heavily focuses on only visuals. And it has been tone deaf towards music. Right? So this is the condition that tells us that it's only on visuals and nothing else. Right? So we have this word it focuses on or completely, you can say it's completely fixated on, right? It's completely fixed on visuals, right? So this is what we're looking for, right? Let's see which options we can eliminate that don't fit the word focus on. Let's look at option a. Fixed fixated on. Yes, we have something that's very close to fixated on, are focused on. So that would mean to attach, to firmly attach oneself. This is something that we wanted. Let's keep it on hold. Let's go to the next one. Option B is obsessed with. Now, obsessed me, width would mean to be fully consumed, which is again close to completely focused on or completely fixated on. So let's keep it on hold. This is clearly close to what we have. Let's go to the next option. Unconcerned with. Unconcerned with would mean lack of interest. Clearly, we are not looking for this. Let's look at the fourth one I'm used by, amused by would mean entertained. Again, that's not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. Bothered by it would mean worried. They're not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. Indifferent would mean not at all interested. Again, that's not what we're looking for. So we're looking at this, we're able to come up with two answer options that clearly fit our blank. And we have managed to eliminate C, D, E, and F. Now the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option a fixated on. And option B, obsessed with. These are the two words that would clearly be closed focused on. These words are also similar in nature. 70. Example 46 - Afghanistan’s military quagmire: Let's look at a third example for only the given example is only by ignoring Afghanistan's long history as a military quagmire could pundits pontificate that fresh infusions of men and material would lead to a dash victory. Let's look at the answer options. So here we have the blank, and we'll have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options. From the given options. Option a would be fleeting. Option B would be contingent. Option C would be expeditious. Option D would be a female, option, E would be swift, and option F would be ferric. Let's see how we do this particular question. So again, we're going to use the ISP four-step action plan, where we're going to identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. We're going to identify the context clue words, and the direction words in the sentence. Let's see what do we have here? So the direction word is only, this clearly tells us that there's going to be a condition that is going to follow. The context clue. What is a military quagmire? This clearly describes Afghanistan, some military, right? So this would be our context clue. And with that, we clearly get the condition only by ignoring Afghanistan's military quagmire. This is the condition that we get. Now cow quagmire would mean a very complex situation, right? So this would clearly tells us what the black is going to be, in which direction it would be. Now let's simplify the sentence using the context clues. Let's see what do we get? We get only by ignoring the complex situation. Fresh infusions of men and material would lead to dash victory. So only by ignoring this thing, something will happen. Let's see what can happen. Only by ignoring this negative situation. We can clearly guess that something positive is going to happen. Right? So let's predict our own answer using the context clue. We can get yes. Only by ignoring the complex situation. Fresh infusions of material would lead to a fast twitch tree or would lead to a very quick quickly. Because this is the only condition that we have to ignore. This is a negative condition. If we ignore this negative condition, rest everything would be clearly positive. So obviously fresh infusions would lead to a fast victory. Now knowing this, let's eliminate answer options that are close to quick. Let's say option a. Option a is fleeting, which means short-lived. This is not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. Option B contingent, which means unpredictable. Again, this is not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. Option C expeditious. Yes. Option C is expeditious, which means very quick. This is something what we're looking for. Let's keep this on hold. Let's look at option D. Ephemeral. Fml means something that lasts for a very short period of time. Let's eliminate this. This is also a very high-frequency GRE word. Let's eliminate this answer. Option. Shift means something that is instant, something that is very fast, right? Let's keep this on hold because this is close to what we want, which is very quick and very could mean worthless, something that is of no value. So you look at this variable to eliminate four answer options that don't fit our answer option. Quick. We've managed to eliminate option a, B, D, and F. So these are the four options we were able to eliminate. The correct answer by the process of elimination would be option C, expeditious, and option E, swift. These are the two answer options that clearly fit the blank, which is very close to quick. And these two options are also similar in nature. 71. 'IRONIES' - Presentation Points: We're going to see how to identify the ironies in the sentence. Let's look at some presentation contents for ironies. Now, first of all, an irony is a situation that is strange or that is very funny, because things happen in a way that seems opposite of what you generally expected. Okay, so you might find a very funny sentence or a very strange sentence. And that can give us a clue on how the GRE sentence equivalence can be done. Let's look at this example here. Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin walk and came 20th. So you can clearly see how that is an irony in the sentence. So this is clearly an irony. It's a very strange situation or a very funny situation. And we can clearly identify the irony in this particular sentence. Let's look at the second example. The only losing basketball coach in University of Kansas history is James Naismith, the man who invented basketball in 1891. So obviously the man who invented basketball was a big failure as a coach. This is clearly an ironical statement. So this is how we know that these statements are ironical. 72. Example 47 - James Joyce in real life: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the first example for ironies. The given question here is James Joyce, the author of many novels, including lady Chatelier's lover, saw deeply into the hearts of his characters. In real life, irony as subtle, hit piercing as those endured by his characters. He himself could barely dash text well enough to prove his own galleys. This is a particular question given to you. Now we have to fill this particular blank with two of the answer options given to us. Look at these options here. You have option a, option B, option C, walk, option D, Move, option E, distinguish, and option F, interpret. So these are the six answer options given to you from these six answer options. So you have to fill this particular blank by using two answer options given. Let us see how we do this particular question. So again, we're going to use the four-step action plan, identifies, simplify, predict, and eliminate. So we're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in this particular sentence. So what are the contexts clue us in the direction words. Yes, look at the context clue word in the sentence. This is the direction word in the sentence. Okay, you have, but in a real life irony, you have this context clue word. You have this direction word in the sentence. In a real life irony, which clearly shows that there will be an ironical situation in this whole particular example given to us. The context clues James Joyce saw deeply. So here we are talking about James Joyce's an order and what did he do? He was able to see deeply into his heart, into the hearts of his characters. Okay, so we have something describing James Joyce, which is that he was able to see deeply into his characters. So that will become the context clue for us. Now, using this context clue, let us find out the structure of the sentence. James saw deeply, which is very positive. Ironically, you knew, you know that you have a negative ratio. Because ironically will clearly tell you that this particular phrase will clearly be a negative phase because it will clearly go against the phrase he was able to solve deeply. And that makes the whole thing ironical. Okay, let's simplify this particular sentence. What do we get? We get James Joyce saw deeply into the characters. Ironically in real life, he could barely dash. This is a very simple sentence. Now look at this whole sentence. This is such a huge sentence, but see how we are able to simplify this particular sentence. James saw deeply into the heart of its characters, which is very above, which is very positive idea. But ironically in real life, you could badly dash, okay, make sure you fill this word with the correct word here, because this is clearly a negative word here. Okay? So when we, when we know this whole sentence must be negative, in real life, he could barely dash this whole part must be negative, which means when this is clearly a negative word here, when you already have badly here, obviously want this word should be, yes, it should be a positive word in the sentence. In James Joyce saw deeply into the hearts of his characters, but in real life, he could barely dash, okay, that word is something positive. Now using this knowledge, let us predict what this word can be, what this positive word can be. So we can get something like this. Very simple. James Joyce saw deeply into the hearts of his characters. Ironically in real life, he couldn't see into the hearts of his characters. Okay? So something like this, James Joyce saw deeply, but in real life he could not see. Okay, So make sure that we are able, you're choosing a blank. You're choosing this particular word here based on the context given to you. Since you have the context as James saw deeply, but in real life he couldn't see deeply. If you had something like James was able to feel his characters deeply, then it could be in real life, he could barely feel his characters. If you had something, James Joyce was moved by his characters deeply, then you could say that in real life he was not, he was not moved by his characters. So this is how you can use the context clue and fill the particular blank of this particular sentence. For all the sentence you can use this particular method. Now using this, let us eliminate answer options that not, that are not close to c. This is a very simple word. And let's see which one is not close to sea. Here's option a is clearly close to c. Let's keep this on hold because this is clearly the correct answer that we have. Feel yes, it's very different. Sees, different fields, different. Notice that all of these words are very simple words, but still they are confusing. They are really challenging. Got it. So option C, walk, which is clearly not close to C, Option D, which is move, again, not our answer. Option a, distinguished. Yes. So distinguished means to see, let's keep it on hold. Because when someone asks you, Are you able to distinguish between red and orange, they clearly mean, are you able to see colors clearly? Distinguish clearly means to see, let's keep that on hold. And the last option is interpret, which means to explain. This is clearly not what is meant to see. If we have managed to eliminate option B, C, D, and F. So the correct answer by the process of elimination for this particular question would be option a, which is C, and option E, which is distinguish. So both these answer options clearly fit the blank here. And they are also similar in meaning. 73. Example 48 - The prize competition: Hello there. Welcome back. Let's look at ironies. The second example. Let's look at the question. The price competition was dash as a showcase for new technology. Ironically, the competition was marred by disqualification and disputes. This is the particular question, and we have the answer options given to us. You have six answer options given to you and from the six options. So you have to choose two correct answers. Let's look at option a. Option a is disappointing. Option B, option C, touted. Option D, heralded. Option E, promising option F required. Let's see how to do this particular question. Then we're going to use the four-step action plan, which is identified, simplify, predict, and eliminate. So let's identify the direction words and the context clue words in the sentence. The direction what is ironically, which clearly tells you that there will be an ironical statement or a very strange statement in this particular sentence. And the context clues does qualifications and disputes, because it clearly describes the price competition. Okay. The price competition was filled with these qualifications and disputes. So if you have clearly identified the direction word and the context clue word in the sentence. Now what do we get here? We can identify the structure of the sentence. So such structure of the sentence would be some positive phase. I know that some pro positive phase will be here because ironically, it was a negative, it turned out to be a negative situation. Got it? Because we have, we can clearly expect a positive phrase here, but ironically, a negative thing happened. Now with this, let's try to simplify the sentence using the context clue words and the direction words. So we get the competition was dashes a showcase. Ironically, it was spoiled by disputes. This part, whole thing must be clearly positive. Why? Because ironically something negative happening, which means that this whole part must be positive. Let us predict our own answer. We also have this word here as a showcase for new technology. Okay, so with this, you can clearly identify what the blank and B. So let's predict our own answer. You can come up with something like this. The competition was publicized or the competition was shown as a showcase. Okay? So generally what happens is when a, when something is showcased, it's certainly very similar to publicize. It's publicly announced, okay, because it is a showcase. So the competition was publicly announced as showcase. So I'm able to get this publicly announced because of this word showcased. Because only a showcase can be something that is publicly announced. Or you can say like this, publicly announcing something is nothing but showcasing something. Okay, So the competition was publicized as a showcase, but ironically it was spoiled by disputes. Now let's eliminate answer options that are not close to publicized. Let's see what do we get? Disappointing means disheartening, which is clearly not the correct answer. Let's eliminate it. Concealed means to think of or to begin. This is the beginning place of something. Again, this is not what we're looking for. Let us eliminate it. Touted means to backup or to promote, right? So whenever you see a football match, the audience may doubt for some particular player, the audience may shout at a particular Pay player. So that is the meaning of touting, which clearly means to promote a particular person. Let's keep this on hold. Now the next is heralded. Now heraldic means again two unknowns, right? When you, let's say, for example, you say the queen was heralded. When you say the queen were surrounded, it means the queen was announced to the world. Okay? So announced means something that is publicized or publicly announced, right? Let's keep this on hold. Let's look at the next option, promising. Now, promising means encouraging, which is clearly not our answer. And required means something that is needed. Again, that's not our answer. So we were able to eliminate four answer options here in the sentence. Those four answer options are a, b, e, and f, right? And the correct answer by the process of elimination is option C touted, and option D heralded. So touted and heralded clearly fit the blank in the sentence. And these words, two words, are also similar in nature. 74. Example 49 - The study’s conclusion: Let's look at a third example for ironies. Let's look at the sentence here. The studies dash conclusion is that during the first half of the 20th century, improved standards of personal hygiene reduced the risk of an individual's contracting poliomyelitis. Ironically, it tended to make the disease more lethal to communities. Again, you can clearly see that you have an ironical statement given to you. Let's look at the answer options. Option a is exciting. Option B, paradoxical. Option C, unwarranted. Option D, long awaited. Option E, anomalous, and option F, interim. These are the six sounds for options. And we have to fill this particular blank with two of the correct answers from here. Let's see how to do this particular question. We're going to use the ISP four-step action plan, where we're going to identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. Let's identify the context clue words and the direction words in this sentence. The direction word in the sentence would be ironically because you can clearly see a contradictory idea in this particular sentence, or a very strange situation in this particular sentence. So the direction word is ironically the context clue word in the sentence is it reduced individual risk? And we have another context clue word here to the contexts. Glut-2 would be it increased community risk. So let's see what happened. The studies dash conclusion. So we have to fill in a word here is that during the first half of the 20th century, improved standards of personal hygiene. Now let's see what we talked about, the improved standards, standards of personal hygiene. It reduced the risk of division of an individual, but increased the community risk. Okay. It reduced the risk of an individual, but it increased the community risk. It made the disease more dangerous to communities. So this is clearly an ironical statement. Okay, clearly describes how the study of the conclusion was. With this, we can get the particular direction word and the context clue word. Now let's simplify the sentence using the context clues and the direction what we can get something like this, good hygiene, reduced individual risks. So here we have this downward arrow here. Ironically, it increased the community risk. So when you have proper hygiene and individual risk came down, but what happened? The community risk increased. This is clearly an ironical statement. Got it, because when an individualist very clean, obviously the community must be clean. But what is happening here, the community is at risk. The disease is spreading towards the community, even though the individual is clearly having good hygiene. So this clearly tells you that this is a contradictory situation or an ironical statement. The conclusion should be what? How is the conclusion, right? We can clearly understand that the conclusion should be contradictory. Okay, let's, let's come out with our own answer. We can come up with something like this. Good hygiene, reduced individual risk, but it increased commit risk. Therefore, the study's conclusion, she is very contradictory or it is very puzzling. Great, So something like this would be the correct answer. With this in mind, let us eliminate the four answer options. Option a exciting, which means thrilling. This is not what we want. Let's eliminate it. Paradoxical means, yes, ironical, which is something that is contradictory. Let's keep this on hold because this is something what we want. Unwarranted means unjustified, which is clearly not the right answer. Long awaited means something that is expected. Again, not the right answer. Anomalous means something that is strange, something that is exceptional, something that is deviating from the normal. So that is what we're looking for. Let's keep that on hold. And then interim would mean meantime. So this is clearly not what we're looking for. Okay. So we were able to help manage four answer options from here. We're able to manage to eliminate option a, c, d, and f. Okay? So the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B paradoxical and option E anomalous. So these are the two words that are similar in meaning. And they also fit the particular blank in the sentence, which is contradictory. 75. Example 50 - Only 14 automobiles in US.: Hello there, Welcome back. Let's look at the fourth example for ironies. Let's look at the fourth example. In 1905, there were only 14 automobiles in the US. Dash enough. Two of them ran into each other in St. Louis. Let's look at the blanks here. Now we have the answer options. Option a, justifiably, option B, ironically, option C, inevitably, option D, deservedly, option E ludicrously and option F Lambda to bleed. From here, we need to pick to answer options. Let's see how to do this particular problem. Again, we're going to use the four-step action plan for this. Identify, simplify, predict, and eliminate. We're going to identify the context clue words and the direction words in this particular sentence. So the context clue word here. Here we don't have any direction word because we have only contexts clue words in the sentence. Okay. So the context clue what? The first contexts clovers, there were only 14 automobiles in the whole of us. This is the first context clue. It tells us the situation of the automobiles, that there were only 14 automobiles. The context clue word two is two of them ran into each other. So this is clearly a very strange statement, very funny statement. In spite of only 14 automobiles being in the whole of us, two of them ran into each other. So imagine such a huge country having only 14 automobiles in 19 naught five, but imagine two of them running into each other. So this is clearly a very strange statement. Okay? So with this in mind, let us try to simplify our answer. This is the structure we get. There. We're only 14 automobiles. Two of them ran into each other. So clearly an irony war would be here. So this is clearly indicating the direction that we're looking for, right? So that's why we had to context clue was in the sentence and they asked us to find the direction work. Let us simplify the sentence using the context clues. In 1905, only 14 automobiles were there in the whole of us. Dash two of them ran into each other. Now we know that this blank must be some ironical world. With this lettuce, credit our own answer. You can get something like this. In 190514 automobiles. So they're in the whole of us, surprisingly, are ironically, right? Or very funny Lee, to run into each other. That is clearly a funny statement. Okay, with this, let us eliminate four answer options that don't match. Surprisingly, look at option a justifiably, which means with good reason, Let's eliminate this because this is not what we're looking for. Option B, ironically, which is clearly something that is unexpected or something that is very strange. Let's keep this on hold. Option C, inevitably, which means automatically. Again, this is not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. Option D deservedly, which means fairly. Again, this is not what we're looking for. Let's eliminate it. Option E, ludicrously. Ludicrously means something that is very foolishly done are very strangely done. Let's keep this on hold because this is closely what we have. Again, this is a killer clearly looking like a foolish incident in spite of 14 automobiles, two of them ran into each other. Clearly a very strange incident. Laminar really means to criticize. Again, we're not criticizing anything here. So we were able to manage, we're to eliminate four answer options. That is option a, c, d. And if these four options would be eliminated, now the correct answer we have by the process of elimination would be option B. 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