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Zorluk: OrtaIdentifying Synonym and Near-Synonym Pairs

Although the court archivist asserted that the imperial mint had instituted a systematic policy of debasing silver coinage during the late third century, recent metallurgical analysis of recovered coin hoards indicates that such monetary manipulations were in fact __________, occurring only during isolated financial panics rather than as part of a sustained administrative program. Which two of the following answer choices, when inserted into the blank, produce completed sentences that are equivalent in meaning?

  1. A
    ubiquitous
  2. sporadicCevap
  3. C
    pervasive
  4. D
    insidious
  5. fitfulCevap
  6. F
    deliberate

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The correct selections are the pair of words meaning irregular or occurring in isolated instances ('sporadic' and 'fitful').
The contrast word 'Although' indicates that the actual practice of debasing coinage was opposite to a 'systematic' or 'sustained' policy. The clause following the blank confirms that these manipulations occurred 'only during isolated financial panics'. Therefore, the blank requires words meaning intermittent or irregular. Both 'sporadic' and 'fitful' precisely convey this meaning and produce logically equivalent completed sentences.

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1
Analyze structural contrast and contextual clues
The concession signal 'Although' contrasts the archivist's claim of a 'systematic policy' and 'sustained administrative program' with the physical evidence.
Identifying sentence pivots establishes the required semantic valence of the blank.
2
Determine the required meaning of the blank
The blank must describe coinage debasement as irregular, occasional, or restricted to rare moments ('occurring only during isolated financial panics').
The sentence requires a word conveying non-systematic, intermittent occurrence.
3
Evaluate option pairs for semantic equivalence and contextual fit
'Sporadic' and 'fitful' both mean occurring irregularly or intermittently, completing two sentences with equivalent meaning.
Both words satisfy the contextual fit requirement and form a functional near-synonym pair.

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Identifying contextual contrast signals and selecting functional near-synonym pairs in GRE Sentence Equivalence
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Identifying Synonym and Near-Synonym Pairs

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