Craft and StructureHardWord for reducing something's importance
Craft and Structure practice question
The memoir ____ the author's years in the civil service, dispatching two decades in a paragraph so as to reach the theatre career she preferred to remember.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A. glosses overCorrect
- B. dwells on
- C. celebrates
- D. invents
Answer: A. glosses over
Two decades in a paragraph, hurried past: glossed over.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. dwells on
- Dwelling on would mean lingering, the opposite.
- C. celebrates
- Nothing about the passage is celebratory.
- D. invents
- The years are real; they are simply passed over.
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