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1.embarrass:humiliate I just think pilfer:steal is more correct, but the answer is "spank:whip" 2.should "heinous:iniquity" bridged with "notorious:levity", I think the answer "conspicuous:invisibility" is obviously wrong. 3.Can anyone explain the bridge between "limpet:detach" and "tick:extract"? 4.Another question makes me confused: "malcontent:grumble" and "pessimist:compromise" 5.Isn't the antonym of "encumber" "disburden", there seems another wrong answer which is "bleach". 6."nefarious", should I choose "lacking" following the anwser? or "benign"? Thanks for any help from you! :p

dispassionate:partisanship the answer is " intemperate:moderation", but I think volatile:immobility also sounds OK. Could anyone points out why this one is wrong? compact:powder why cannot the anwser be "dustpan:dirt" but "flask:liquor"? Also an antonym equanimity the anwser is agitation, but why stirring is wrong? thanks!

Hi, zorrillo thanks a lot for your kind help! Actually, I have learned about the "physical feel", which means try to choose the more similar feelings; however, sometimes I just cannot understand exactly what a word means. For example, here, according to the translation of the word "census" to my language, I think it is just an activity looking for the quantity and several quality of the population. Moreover, I am not familiar with the concept "catalog" here. Then I make the mistake. You have make both two words more clear for me and I think all non-native speakers of English should try to study the accurate meaning of words if they want to make progress in the verbal part.

Census: Population The answer is catalog:collection while I think assessment:tax sounds more accurate, am I wrong?

Thank you very much!

anthology:writing; answer: sample:delicacies, what does here delicacies exactly mean? band:nomad; answer: colony:artist, what is the bridge? barley:grain; answer:pine:tree but why not vine:fruit?

Hi, everyone, since I am from China and preparing for the GRE now, I think I can provide a convinced answer. You're right! :) Most Chinese students actually have got very high scores in this test, I think the code is here: 1.Not all Chinese undergraduate participate this test, it seems that only the elite attend. 2.Chinese basic education pays a lot emphases on maths, and the Q part seems really easy for every Chinese undergraduate, (most questions just relate to knowledge we have learned in high school), almost each one can easily acquire a mark above 750. 3.I would most like to introduce the method we use to crack V part. Actually, and a bit unfortunately, most books published for this part have no copy in China for sold. We can only get several illegal copies of real test questions. Many Chinese education corporation publish their own material, and several of these are excellent. Most of us use a book containing word lists, which only contains words that have appeared in the test before. Chinese students, who generally have a lower english level than any other country's student, uses 3-4 months to recite these words for about 20 times. And then they continue to do a lot of real questions, which can ensure their high marks. When computer based tests were applied in China, students will share there questions of the tests in the website for following students to study, actually, it seems that most of these recent questions will appear within one month period. However, nowadays the mode have changed to pen and pencil, and there is no such cracking. I think some methods ( such as telling others the questions) are really immoral, but they do help. In fact, I think most of us have a poor English education and have several crucial problems in communicating in English. Nevertheless, we have the somehow called "wisdom" to get a high mark in examination because of our educational system is based on it.

hi, nsoonhui Although I do not know whether you have finished your exam and will never come here again, I still want to post this. I have read your essay and I think the example of Chinese situation you used is unconvicing and suittable. I do not know whether you have once been to China or read or hear something about the details, but I guess we Chinese are not in the way you depict towards such issues as history and democratic government. At least it is not the situation as you mentioned that most of us are credulous. I know exactly there are a lot of problems in Chinese social and political life, but I think it is not just because our foolish patriotic reverence for the history.