Although the minuet appeared simple, its ____ steps had to be studied very carefully before they could be gracefullly ____ in public.
A) progressive… revealed
B) intricate… executed
C) rudimentary… allowed
D) minute… discussed
E) entertaining… stylized
The answer to this question is B and I get how using the MATH strategy we could get that. But using the “I love pizza but you love hotdogs” example where pizza and hotdogs contrast each other, can’t we argue in a similar way where “simple” and “very carefully” contrast each other? As in, if something is simple we wouldn’t be so careful about it right? So we could essentially say “simple” and “very carefully” contrast each other and “simple” would then be supported by “rudimentary” and the answer is C) in that case? Then the idea here would be that although the minuet appeared simple, we still had to study its “rudimentary” steps very carefully …