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jeff_999

#92721 Sat, 23 Apr 05 02:42 PM

While one cannot overlook Schwinger's _______comments about the Feynman diagrams, the efficiency of using these diagrams for perturbative calculations within quantum electrodynamics, is simply _________.
A) insightful…egregious
B) flattering…questionable
C) scathing…unacceptable
D) disparaging… undeniable
E) laudatory…remarkable

The given answer is D. But I would opt for E. What do you think?

jeff_999

Joined on Wed, Oct 20 2004

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jeff_999

#92724 Sat, 23 Apr 05 02:55 PM

Ohhehe Is the 'while' doing the trick here? Never mind, just thinking aloud. I know why it is D now. Smile [:)]

jeff_999

paco2004

#92806 Sun, 24 Apr 05 12:35 AM

Hello Jeff

Is it a TOEFL vocabulary quiz? For me it's extremely difficult. Some words are rarely used in everyday English. I didn't know "disparage"(=belittle/discredit: antonym of 'flatter'), "egregious" (=very bad) and "scathe" (=damage). Furthermore this quiz seems to demand some knowledge of quantum physics. If you know who Feymann is, it would be greatly helpful to solve this quiz. As for 'while', it works here as a concessive connective nearly equal to "although".

pac

paco2004

Joined on Wed, Nov 17 2004

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In Japan today even dogs are learning how to bow-wow in English.

Vocabulary, TOEFL, Antonyms

jeff_999

#92837 Sun, 24 Apr 05 05:18 AM

Howdy, paco. First, thank you so much for always offering me hands on those questions. Actually, it’s from verbal part on the GRE test. There is no vocabulary section on the TOEFL test. Smile [:)]

But we do have a grammar section on the TOEFL test, that’s why I was always here before. And thanks to the great help offered by you people, I did good on the TOEFL test. Now I am challenging the GRE test. Actually, I just began to get my hands on it.

The GRE exam is divided into three parts: GRE AWA, GRE Verbal, and GRE Math. The GRE Math is easy for us. Generally, most of us will get full mark on this part, like we get on the grammar part on TOEFL. But Verbal part IS difficult for us, especially Reading and Sentence Completion (like this one I posted here).

So I sincerely hope you people can get me over the obstacle. Wink [;)]

jeff_999

Grammar, Vocabulary, TOEFL

paco2004

#92844 Sun, 24 Apr 05 07:29 AM

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paco2004

#92845 Sun, 24 Apr 05 07:29 AM

Hello Jeff

Thank you for the reply. I'm surprised to know GRE verbal test is so difficult. Likely you need to have a vocabulary size of more than 50,000 words to get good scores in the test. But I'm sure you'll get it soon.

paco

paco2004

Vocabulary

jeff_999

#92897 Sun, 24 Apr 05 01:55 PM

Thank you.

jeff_999

#92898 Sun, 24 Apr 05 01:59 PM

By the way, what does "Toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son" mean, and where ya from? May I ask?

jeff_999

paco2004

#92904 Sun, 24 Apr 05 02:14 PM

Aha, this phrase is something like a Gypsy lyric.
It means;
"All the life is a dream, and dreams are (merely) dreams".

I was a vagabond wandering in Europe like a Gypsy when young.
And still now I'm wandering in my life that's nothing but a dream.

Where am I from? A tiny country in the East Asia, Japan.

paco

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