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BAIT:
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disarm
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release
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The Official Answer isSPOILER: B, could anyone explain a little bit?
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Can anyone help me out?
We've tried our hand at love beforeWe've been around the game enough to know the score
But then is then, and now is now
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Wemer, IMO this is a very strange question...where did you get this?
I 'm guessing that bait, in this context, means to ridicule or insult and maybe that's why disarm has been given as the answer. To disarm can mean to allay someone's suspicion or hostility or win over someone's confidence.
But it's not a very convincing answer.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
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Hi Illusionz,
First thing first, thank you for coming to help me.
This question is from the original GRE test, perhaps in the 1980s.
We've tried our hand at love beforeWe've been around the game enough to know the score
But then is then, and now is now
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Illusionz,Originally Posted by Illusionz
Wemer, IMO this is a very strange question...where did you get this?
I 'm guessing that bait, in this context, means to ridicule or insult and maybe that's why disarm has been given as the answer. To disarm can mean to allay someone's suspicion or hostility or win over someone's confidence.
But it's not a very convincing answer.
To develop your thoughts bait also = persecute/tease and disarm = win the affection of.
Or is it as in bait a trap with the opposite being to disarm the trap? (I don't like that becasue in that case bait should be set.)
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Oh right, I had heard of baiting a new teacher and a disarming smile but never thought of those contexts...that's the trouble with these questions...one word can take so many blooming meanings
...I just discovered something called contranyms whereby a word itself can be its own opposite e.g. ravel can mean either entangle or disentangle...
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
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Cannot it be *delude*
as bait means to allure and delude means to deceive ?
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sang froid,
bait means to allure but it is also deceiving, as in the case of trap.
"Fear less,hope more; whine less,breathe more;
Talk less,work more; hate less,love more;
Then all the good things are yours ."
---Proverb---
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por favor, el seņor refer
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=BAIT
all i can say is that i disagree with the answer given........
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