Tc sessions gregamat

GRE Verbal Problem Solving
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As the finances of the energy-trading firm began unraveling, what eventually became (i) ________ was that the company had been concocting “value” out of thin air, thanks not to the trading strategies it promoted as visionary but to financial (ii) ________ that turned a once-solid entity into the most notorious (iii) ________ in an era of corporate scandals

Here greg says NOT X BUT Y pair is contrast , so X is positive so Y should be negative,
is that right? I thought Not X but Y is support list

He is talented not because he is smart but because he is smart. so hard/smart both are same ++

@gregmat @Leaderboard

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If that logic is really bothering you, you can ignore it altogether. Instead, you can use the “that” after blank 2. The information that follows that has to support blank 2. If blank 3 is negative, that means that blank 2 must also be negative.