<p>@ canbambiswim: Is that a response to me or to cjester or powerbomb? Or all three of us? :P</p>
<p>Anyone else have opinions on austere/unadorned and plain/ornate?</p>
<p>Sentence is something as follows:
Because of the white, xxxx ness of Greek statues, they are considered to be <strong><em>; however newly discovered statues covered with flakes of colored paint are NOT </em></strong>.</p>
<p>Jersey- another astronomy passage question asked what the primary purpose of the passage was</p>
<p>For the Greek statue question, I definitely agree with silverturtle, canbambiswim, and Jersey13. The words in both blanks are supposed to be synonyms; hence, austere/unadorned is the answer.</p>
<p>@Quantifier: I feel the same way about CR 
But alas, my luck is terrible so majority of the educated guesses I make after eliminating all incorrect answers are still incorrect. Bleh. I hate CR</p>
<p>It was a response to cjester.</p>
<p>it was predict “phenomena” for the cosmology one. There was no choice with motion.</p>
<p>For the cosmology one, it was not planet motions or whatever, it was that their observations disproved their folktales</p>
<p>What? I thought it was the they couldn’t accurately predict the motions of the planets…</p>
<p>wow im so late i didnt even know this kind of thread existed
but can anyone tell me the questions (or part of the question) for rancor and progenitor/exploit
because i think i put compunction and forgot the other 1</p>
<p>@antonioray- Whoops, didn’t see your question until now.
Some other choices from the “didactic” question included reflective and hostile, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>@Kanan57: I feel the same way. I normally narrow it down to two choices and pick the wrong one. </p>
<p>I think that I should just expect the worst and hopefully get a nice surprise come Feb. 11th</p>
<p>a more accurate recalling of the greek statue question;
“Many people find the plain, <em>(other adjective here)</em> Greek statues widely found in museums to be _<strong><em>, yet newly discovered statues containing traces of bright pigments do not seem quite so _</em></strong>.”</p>
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With that recalling, how can you possibly dispute Austere/Unadorned? </p>
<p>The answer choice for the astronomers started with “they were unable to accurately predict…”, whether it was motion or celestial phenomena, that was the only answer choice that started with those words.</p>
<p>@EternalHeart, I would add confidential and subtract hostile from that list :]</p>
<p>Jersey, I don’t think that was the answer… they were most unsettled because their findings disproved their traditiona folktales.</p>
<p>reflective was choice B right?
what was choice C?
choice D was didactic?</p>
<p>i may have put didactic…
i either put C or D</p>
<p>and i agree with canabis when he says that they cant predict stuff
it even said in the middle of the passage that they coudlnt predict anything until they accurately related the sizes of celestial bodies</p>
<p>it was DEFINITELY not disproved their folklores, i mean in all seriousnesss, who gives a shhhhhhhhh about folkores</p>
<p>EDIT: oh yes, confidential was choice A
i definitely didnt put that or reflective…</p>
<p>@cjester- My bad. xD I think “hostile” was a choice from another question.
But hmm… do you remember answer choices for the main purpose astronomy question? I can’t remember what I put.</p>
<p>the whole point of the passage was about astronomers being confused and unsettled because all their new findings with new technology were just disproving everything they had assumed and their folktales.</p>
<p>another choice was that they did not possess the mathematical sophistication (which was defnitely not it)</p>
<p>i recall that the passage explicitly states that ancient astronomers could not predict…</p>
<p>in line 7 or 8 or so</p>
<p>folklores was only mentioned once in the beginning, that they formed hte basis upon which astronomers developed their earliest theories</p>
<p>however, they were frustrated because they could not predict anything</p>