AdityaHongunti wrote:
GMATNinja mikemcgarrycan you suggest me some tips or any kind of tactic i can use when i dont really know the meaning of the word.
For Q4 , author's tone towards traditional view i chose A . Now i did not know the meaning of apprehension and so tried to find it's root word and reached to apprehend (of which i had no idea ).
though i knew the meaning of choice E and agree that it is right, i would like to know what to do in such situations as such words sometimes are hard to comprehend.
please give some advice
AdityaHongunti : try adapting below process. see if you need more explanation. I understand your problem. even i wasn’t 100% sure of the meaning of words in choices A, B and E. But This is how i read the para and interpreted the tone.
GMATNinja: thank you, my legend, for taking time out and giving some ideas. do let me know if you think my approach will work. again, you are right, i went more by elimination method.
Para 1:
If you read through the first para, the author introduced formation of the ocean basins. The author explains ‘traditional view’, but doesn’t reject it directly . Instead of that, author explains the ‘theoretical view’. This means, author provides some soft of 'probable' explanation.
then in the para 2:
The author calls traditional theory as ‘implausible’ and then gives an alternative version. Author supports the version by connecting it to an example of some ocean or land.
Para 3;
Author further provides another opinion and again provides sufficient examples.
Overall:
So, author introduced a topic and gave a theoretical explanation. Then author provided 2 counter views and supported each view with some examples. Author didn’t sound very confident in supporting a particular view. Author kept giving some examples.
now, i started going through each choices:
(A) slight apprehension :
My view: Let’s ignore apprehension and concentrate on ‘slight’. well, author didn’t sound like talking “slightly”. author always gave some explanations. so not a correct choice.
(B) absolute indifference
My view: again, let’s ignore ‘indifference’ and concentrate on ‘absolute’. author didn’t support any options ‘absolutely’. he jumped from one suggestion to another. so not a correct choice.
(C) indignant anger :
My view: Wow, WTF is ‘indignant’; author surely didn’t look angry. so not a correct choice.
(D) complete disbelief
My view: hell no, author always supported views with some examples, so clearly, this is not a correct option.
(E) guarded skepticism
My view: even though i didn’t know skepticism , i thought “guarded” meant author supported/explained. yes, author did gave alternate theories and provided examples.
hence i thought E was the most optimal.
I hope this is clear.
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