<p>yeah pastoral is my first SC wrong so far....</p>
<p>did you guys get abstemious?</p>
<p>What about the mythology one? Was that controversy, fabrication, morality, or something else? I wasn't sure at all, but I put controversy.</p>
<p>Direct Hits was pretty good this test =D</p>
<p>i dont remember seeing abstemious at alll</p>
<p>jules it was one of those 2 blank sentence completions..i dont really remember the exact sentence tho =(</p>
<p>i put controversy too</p>
<p>that question about doctors in the 1800s - intemperate and inimical; 'abstemious' was a choice there, but it's teh direct opposite, abstemious means to eat sparingly, but they were saying to be wary of overindulging.</p>
<p>i said intemperate.
For mythology i said controversial</p>
<p>yeahh i put intemperate and inimical</p>
<p>For the Diligent one was it
pervasive: undercut
or
superficial: compromising
I cannot remember which i put but it was one of them.</p>
<p>mythology...I think I said something along the lines of controversy...
the sentence made NO sense, but I went along with the "defined in the sentence" rule...</p>
<p>YES DIRECT HITS WAS AWESOME
<em>innuendo, anyone?</em>
haha who uses innuendo to mean "veiled statements" anyway? I only remembered that and didn't go "HUH?" cuz I reviewed vocab with my mom yesterday, and she was like...innuendo means veiled statement?</p>
<p>i had stark/cerebral as well, but I put pertinent observation for Mark Twain. The fact that other writers won't praise your work unless you praise theirs is not really an explanation of why they did not react to the Indian guy's writing, because in the next sentence he said something like "if I had any praise to give them, they did not want it" or something along those lines. So I think pertinent observation made more sense, but I'm not really sure.</p>
<p>how was that innuendo...?
i put skepticism and it would fit cuz he was doubting the witness. But i do remember veiled statement as a part of the question....grrr</p>
<p>yup i did pertinent observation too</p>
<p>i put same as you jml</p>
<p>I don't completely remember the question, but superficial: compromising rings a bell</p>
<p>i think i put explanation for the one about Twain</p>
<p>Can someone expand on pertinent observation? I am drawing a blank on what the answer choices were</p>
<p>for the one with the veiled thing....was it presumption?</p>
<p>hmmm...I didnt say pertinent observation...
I took the question really literally. I think the writer was being really sarcastic about how just as many people as liked his writing didn't like his writing. SO the mark twain quote about how if you want others to praise your writing, you should praise the writing of others. Since they weren't praising his writing, well i guess (sarcastically) they don't want my praise.</p>
<p>So in summary, I think the answer was explaining the reactions of the other people.
I mean...what was Twain really observing anyway?</p>
<p>Btw about innuendo: (M-W.com)
1 a: an oblique allusion : hint , insinuation ; especially : a veiled or equivocal reflection on character or reputation b: the use of such allusions <resorting to="" innuendo=""></resorting></p>