Adityasekar wrote:
Are we expected to know the meaning of these words ?
1. Erudite
2. Assiduous
Hello,
Adityasekar. If this were GRE® practice, I would say for sure, you would need to know such words. For GMAT™ practice, though, just learn what you can from the question, add a word or two to your vocabulary, and practice honing your
reading skills. Although words such as
erudite or
assiduous might appear in a GMAT™ passage, the context would suggest their meaning, and I cannot think of an example of an official question in which an upper-level word is provided in isolation like this among the answer choices. To reiterate, that does not make the question a worthless exercise--maybe if you came across a GMAT™ passage with the word
assiduous in it, you would already know the meaning--but the question is one that is less indicative of what you can expect to see on this particular test.
- Andrew
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