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Please help with the bridge:

 

1) Array : numbers

a) body : skeleton

b) formation : soldiers

c) club : members

d) rank : insignia

e) illustration : graphs

 

2) tint : suffuse

a) ponder : yearn

b) regret : undo

c) damp : quench

d) shroud : screen

e) amble : wander

 

3) frank : secretiveness

a) honest : theft

b) transparent : light

c) free : autocracy

d) callow : maturity

e) confident : intrepidness

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Please help with the bridge:

 

1) Array : numbers

a) body : skeleton

b) formation : soldiers

c) club : members

d) rank : insignia

e) illustration : graphs

 

2) tint : suffuse

a) ponder : yearn

b) regret : undo

c) damp : quench

d) shroud : screen

e) amble : wander

 

3) frank : secretiveness

a) honest : theft

b) transparent : light

c) free : autocracy

d) callow : maturity

e) confident : intrepidness

1)An array is an arrangement of numbers. A formation is an arrangement of soldiers.

2) I'm not sure what the bridge is here. C is the is the only option that makes sense to me. Is it right?

3) Someone that is frank lacks secretiveness. Someone that is callow lacks maturity.

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2) tint : suffuse

a) ponder : yearn

b) regret : undo

c) damp : quench

d) shroud : screen

e) amble : wander

 

 

tint means to color lightly,while suffuse is to overspread the color.

 

So,amble is to walk lightly or relaxed,while wander is to walk aimlessly and fast.Even,if u don't know the meanings,u could have eliminated the answers and have reached the correct one.

 

 

3) frank : secretiveness

a) honest : theft

b) transparent : light

c) free : autocracy

d) callow : maturity

e) confident : intrepidness

 

Some one who is frank don't do secret things.Hence,one who is honest,don't do theft.

 

Answer is not callow:maturity as callow is immature,so the answer should have been callow:mature

 

I hope u understand.When r u planning to give GRE?

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2) I'm not sure what the bridge is here. C is the is the only option that makes sense to me. Is it right?

3) Someone that is frank lacks secretiveness. Someone that is callow lacks maturity.

StevenC,

 

I would agree completely with you and with rschunti's explanation of 2.

 

Only slight variation I would suggest is over your suggestion for 3's bridge: lacks -> does not display. But that is a small point.

 

The posted OAs for 2 and 3 make no sense to me.

 

Michael

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2)

 

3) frank : secretiveness

a) honest : theft

b) transparent : light

c) free : autocracy

d) callow : maturity

e) confident : intrepidness

 

Some one who is frank don't do secret things.Hence,one who is honest,don't do theft.

 

Answer is not callow:maturity as callow is immature,so the answer should have been callow:mature

 

I hope u understand.When r u planning to give GRE?

Magsood, I think it is presumptuous to assume that honest people don't steal. ETS would never have this as an official answer because it can be debated. The answer must be D (and I am sticking to it :)).

 

I am taking the GRE in late June/early July.

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StevenC,

 

I would agree completely with you and with rschunti's explanation of 2.

 

Only slight variation I would suggest is over your suggestion for 3's bridge: lacks -> does not display. But that is a small point.

 

The posted OAs for 2 and 3 make no sense to me.

 

Michael

Michael, what bridge would you suggest for #3? I saw the words "callow" and "maturity" and I naturally got excited; I felt it was the perfect choice for the pairing of "frank" and "secretiveness."
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Nevermind Michael, I missed your bridge in your post. "X does not display Y"

StevenC,

 

Apologies, I was not very clear.

 

To clarify. 'A person who is callow lacks maturity' is fine, but I felt it would be strange usage to say 'lacks secretiveness', hence the suggested change to 'does not display'.

 

I suspect this is because maturity is generally seen as positive and secretiveness as negative. Lacking a negative quality is, perhaps, not a lack!

 

Michael

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StevenC,

 

Apologies, I was not very clear.

 

To clarify. 'A person who is callow lacks maturity' is fine, but I felt it would be strange usage to say 'lacks secretiveness', hence the suggested change to 'does not display'.

 

I suspect this is because maturity is generally seen as positive and secretiveness as negative. Lacking a negative quality is, perhaps, not a lack!

 

Michael

I agree; that bridge would be the best.
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