<p>Maybe I was lucky, but I somehow managed to get all of these “seemingly” right so far…</p>
<p>oh boy, i don’t even remember the five choices for that “satirize” or “characterize”. i psychoanalyzed too much! i just felt some of the answers were kind of extreme, so i eliminated them while i should have paraphrased the meaning and answered it.</p>
<p>Guys up late please update this, a lot of us at east coast might go to sleep.</p>
<p>New update:</p>
<p>Any new confirmed answers, please add to this:</p>
<p>Confirmed answers
Let’s keep this updated:</p>
<p>flippant;
dismay;
platitudinous…permissible
cavalier or humble
sardonic
mildly ridiculous? or shamelessly conceited
particular…universal…
photographer one: flustered
russian one: details;
characterize
contentious
thoughtful
plummet…infinitesimal
idealized?
erode
compunction
bookish
friendship has much to offer
natural characteristics
critique a trend
conspicuous
inflated?
maintain
alliance
provocative</p>
<p>confirm the ones with ?s
WHAT ELSE</p>
<p>I’m going to put an end to the cavalier, diffident question. here is the line straight from the book. “I don’t think I told her what she wanted to hear, but I enjoyed myself.” the next line is “I don’t think she believed my stories.” This is absolutely diffident or lacking confidence. She gave her best answer, she is just not confident on whether it will suffice for the reporter or not. She doesn’t exhibit arrogance or haughtiness (cavalier) and she isn’t humble about anything either.</p>
<p>you read the question wrong a1z. It said something like, "IN THE CONTEXT of the passage, how would the REPORTER characterize “I am crazy”</p>
<p>key word REPORTER. the reporter does not see any diffidence in the tone of the narrator only the narrator did</p>
<p>What was the one “erode” was an answer to?</p>
<p>And I would have to say that he was more “steadfast” in his view on chemistry than he was “idealized”.</p>
<p>no he was not steadfast. his opinion of chemistry changed when Sandro convinced him that he had no real life experience with chemistry.</p>
<p>i think you guys are at cross purposes. a1z7b is talking about the question in the first paragraph, the " scavengers" one, while yettiddqq8 is talking about the last sentence in the passage. i agree with both of you guys, " diffident" for the first answer, and " flippant" for the second.</p>
<p>His opinion of chemistry did not change. All he admitted to was having a lot to learn.</p>
<p>his opinion about chemistry being about the textbook and periodic table and stuff like that to real life is a change.</p>
<p>Well, the author did state that some writers/entertainers feel that they need to “advertise” themselves in order to be successful. That’s an attempt to further their careers, right?</p>
<p>By that logic, he no longer idealizes it as well.</p>
<p>“I don’t think I told her what she wanted to hear, but I enjoyed myself.”</p>
<p>Merriam-Webster: Cavalier - marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful dismissal of important matters</p>
<p>i don’t think critique a trend is right. i still think it should be reemphasize a point.</p>
<p>What point was he reemphasizing? It was clearly critiquing a trend.</p>
<p>cavalier was the correct answer, for sure.</p>
<p>“I don’t think I told her what she wanted to hear, but I enjoyed myself.” i think the main argument is that " but i enjoyed myself"=> she doesn’t care about what the reporter wants to hear, so she is diffident.</p>
<p>he reemphasized his main point that… uhhh i totally forgot what passage this is for. but i remember debating between the two and finally deciding that the narrator was basically repeating what he wanted to say.</p>
<p>cavalier might also be right because my Oxford dic says:</p>
<p>cavalier[usually before noun] not caring enough about sth important or about the feelings of other people:
The government takes a cavalier attitude to the problems of prison overcrowding.</p>
<p>What was “eroded” the answer to? I remember dismissing that as being clearly wrong.</p>