<p>Personally the tidbit about her adding in the bits about the loneliness of old age and making stuff up about her mother made it seem more like she was enjoying herself as opposed to being painstaking.</p>
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This doesn’t sound very meticulous/conscientious to me.
She’s just listing these off breezily; she’s clearly satisfied with what she’s done. Again, self-satisfied means satisfied with oneself, not necessarily smug.</p>
<p>@ Wave, I disagree. I think without a regret and breezily does not necessarily mean Conscientious, ‘self-satisfied,’ fits better. I considered conscientious first but then firmly decided upon the latter.</p>
<p>what was the one about why she wanted to write love? When I was taking the test I felt there wasn’t anything in the text that gave a motive…</p>
<p>I thought the question asked how you would characterize the GRANDMA, not the granddaughter…?</p>
<p>o0Maxio0o = photographic memory king</p>
<p>hey did anyone of you guys get a passage on human cuisine and food? I think it may have been experimental. If you did, can you please tell me what other passages were on that section?</p>
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<p>But again I’m pretty sure the question asked to describe the grandmother based on the lines?</p>
<p>^I’m certain it was the granddaughter.</p>
<p>@michealzev
Again some really good points. Planted seeds of doubt in me. I think I justified looking at the passage without context because it asked us to look at lines w/e (the para). Does anyone remember the exact (or close) question? Also we’d have to look at section in exactness to make more judgement. </p>
<p>You do have some great reasons. Couple of points:
<a href=“she%20refers%20to%20writing%20negatively%20about%20her%20mom%20as” title=“treachery”>quote</a>. She has absolutely no hesitation about doing something that could be considered deception
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Don’t these two points directly contradict each other??? </p>
<p>Maybe we should just find the book. And we certainly found it! Great job. Gotta look deeper into it.</p>
<p>can u PLEASE send a link for the whole passage for the grandma one.</p>
<p>was the art style thing about her sigature or style or prose?</p>
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<p>@mastermind signature</p>
<p>@ Lucid, nah someone posted a link to the entire passage haha, I wish I had a photographic memory ;b</p>
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<p>@ all of you arguing about “conscientious” vs "self-satisfied) - If your argument is that she changed “my brother” to “my grandson” and all the other things mentioned because she is conscientious (governed by the conscience, or in simpler terms, governed by what is right), you are better off putting wary as your answer choice because wary means to show caution about possible problems. In the context that conscientious is used, wary and conscientious are almost synonyms, and therefore self-satisfied is most likely correct. However, if self-satisfied is not an answer choice, wary is a possible contender for the right answer as well IMO. Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>I also inferred from “A little of this, a little of that” and decided self-satisfied was a better fit.</p>
<p>COMPILATION</p>
<p>Lets try to put together a compilation. Here are the Sentence Completions. We ought to be able to do the CR passages as well.</p>
<ol>
<li>Unpredictable</li>
<li>Recognized … Considerable</li>
<li>Diminutive</li>
<li>Proximity</li>
<li>Hardy</li>
<li>Reconcile … Dogmatic (Does everyone agree? Or was it polemical)</li>
<li>Surmise … Deed (the historian)</li>
<li>Arrested … preserved (the artist)</li>
<li>Honors</li>
<li>Opinion … Argue</li>
<li>Deleterious (new vaccine)</li>
<li>Eschew … Adhere (Native American potters)</li>
<li>Indelible (Nutcracker)</li>
<li>Increasing awareness</li>
<li>Welfare … reputation</li>
<li>Prodigy … Exceptional</li>
<li>Mirrors … Evoke</li>
<li>Meteoric </li>
<li>Anomalous (particles differed from the norm)
Yep, DH had lots of hits on the SCs and on the CR passages.</li>
</ol>
<p>It was posted earlier can’t find it now. Try looking back.</p>
<p>I departed from my own life without a regret and breezily inhabited my grandmother’s.</p>
<p>Is she being self aware? Not so much. This is a great reason to choose self-satisfied. But is she really content with what shes doing? Is she happy with her self/her work? She’s saying she didn’t worry about getting out of her own life, but she certainly was self-aware that she not writing as herself (which is the heart of conscientious) Then she details how shes being selfaware. </p>
<p>IMO if its giving us an entire para, the answer should be supported by the rest of the para. She isn’t pleased with her work. She said it was easy. The only reason I haven’t done a(n?) 180 yet because theres nothing to support it IN the area. I don’t want to go out of the area if it gives it to us for an answer</p>
<p>The last question in that passage/section - was it “a basic misunderstanding on how to write letters” or a “formative stage in the writer’s development”?</p>