Adjectives and Adverbs in One-Blank Sentences - ISEE Upper Level Verbal Reasoning

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Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.

Carly thought that the poem she had to read for her English class was rather                     ; in her opinion, its treatment of its subject was far too simplistic and none of its other features caught her interest.

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Because we know that Carly thought "\[the poem's\] treatment of its subject was far too simplistic" and "none of its other features caught her interest," we can infer that she thought the poem to be dull. So, we need to pick out a word that means something like "too simple" or "dull." We can rule out "exciting" as a potential answer because "exciting" is an antonym of the word that we're looking for. "Jejune," however, is an adjective that means "naive, simplistic, and superficial" or when used of ideas or writings, "dry and uninteresting." Because "jejune" is the answer choice that best fits the sentence's context, it is the correct answer.

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