Some sentence completions I don't get

[RAlec114]

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<li> He always spoke with a __________ tone that invested even the most _________ conversations with a faint sense of illicitness</li>
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<p>A. conspiratinoal... innocuous
B. thoughtful.. virtuous
C. guilty.. nefarious
D. candid.. meandering
E. Menacing.. truculent</p>

<p>I don't get it... correct answer is A</p>

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<p>Already famous for becoming _________ at the slightest criticism, the director surpassed himself by the _______ of his anger at the nearly unanimous panning of his latest film.</p>

<p>A. remorseful.. ferocity
B. vengeful.. complacency
C. Incensed.. vehemence
D. obsequious.. malevolence
E. dejected.. alacrity</p>

<h2>answer is C. what the heck is incensed??</h2>

<p>although the poet's status as a modernist master is by now all but _____<strong><em>, her unsavory politics continue to _</em></strong>_ many who study her works today</p>

<p>A. canonical.. berate
B. incontrovertible.. trouble
C. undeclared.. instigate
D. hypothetical.. polarize
E. inconclusive.. provoke</p>

<p>Anwer is B... whaaa</p>

[antonioray]

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6. He always spoke with a __________ tone that invested even the most _________ conversations with a faint sense of illicitness</p>

<p>A. conspiratinoal… innocuous<br>
B. thoughtful… virtuous
C. guilty… nefarious
D. candid… meandering
E. Menacing… truculent</p>

<p>I don’t get it… correct answer is A</p>

<p>**illicitness=bad, meaning the blank immediately preceding it means something good (even…) and the first blank must be the opposite of the 2nd blank. thoughtful and virtuous are both good, guilty nefarious (ratchet and clank anyone?) both bad, D’s have different “charges” but meandering does not contrast with illicitness and E’s are both bad</p>

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<p>Already famous for becoming _________ at the slightest criticism, the director surpassed himself by the _______ of his anger at the nearly unanimous panning of his latest film.</p>

<p>A. remorseful… ferocity
B. vengeful… complacency
C. Incensed… vehemence
D. obsequious… malevolence
E. dejected… alacrity</p>

<p>answer is C. what the heck is incensed??
incensed=enraged
here the words to fill the two blanks have to be similar in meaning
only C does that
but if it’s a matter of not knowing the words, then…--------------------------</p>

<p>although the poet’s status as a modernist master is by now all but _____<strong><em>, her unsavory politics continue to </em></strong> many who study her works today</p>

<p>A. canonical… berate
B. incontrovertible… trouble
C. undeclared… instigate
D. hypothetical… polarize
E. inconclusive… provoke</p>

<p>canonical could be correct, but it’s highly unlikely that politics would berate anyone
C: undeclared does not fit well with “although” if instigated is to fill the 2nd blank
D: although means despite, so despite its hypotheticality, work continues to polarize? work can polarize, sure, but hypotheticality neither contributes nor hinders
and inconclusive work can hardly effectively provoke many
Anwer is B… whaaa

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<p>see bolded…</p>

[RAlec114]

<p>what does conspirational mean? dictionary,.com says joint effort, which doesn’t fit…</p>

[ViggyRam]

<p>^well, I chose A as well. Conspiratorial…I thought of a ‘conspiracy’…and illicitness means something like ‘illegal’. So, he spoke with a sort of ‘hiding something from you’ tone that made even most harmless conversations seems ‘illegal’.</p>

<p>You don’t need to know exact definitions, just kind go with the flow.</p>

[RAlec114]

<p>wooow. dictionary.com says that “conspiracy” is the obsolete definition of conspirational. how lame college board. tsk tsk</p>

[antonioray]

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wooow. dictionary.com says that “conspiracy” is the obsolete definition of conspirational. how lame college board.

where does it say that?</p>

<p>all words ending in -al are either nouns meaning “the act of” <a href=“denial”>present participle of a verb</a></p>

<p>or adjectives meaning “of or related to” (autumnal)</p>

<p>since all the choices’ first blank is an adjective, conspirational here (as with everywhere else) means “of a conspiracy.”</p>