Solving the Support Contrast Exercise

GRE Verbal Problem Solving
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I decided to solve the below problem until step 4.

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I was wondering how to fill the blank in this case.

My steps are as follows:

  1. Blank is describing what the US spent the money on
  2. Blank is being contrasted with ironically
  3. Connotation = neutral, (my reasoning: US spending 94 million on the army can be seen as a good or a bad way)
  4. Semantics = “for was”
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I don’t understand your step 4. Semantics should be about how to fill in the blank, what does “for was” mean here?

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My bad, I meant “a few”

4

Yeah that sounds good to me. If you are told that they spent a large amount, the contrast would be that the number of soldiers was small

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By the way you don’t need to do the whole TC process here, the exercise only needs you to go up to step 2. But its very good that you are doing it!

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Thank you!!

Since I was solving it, I was like “might as well do it”

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