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Let's look at the third example of surprising statements.
Let's look at example three, because the Lewis and Clark expedition to the West was conceived primarily
as a mapping project.
Government officials were dashed when the by the wealth of information on a myriad of topics that the
explorers gathered.
From here, we have to choose six from the six options, we have to choose to answer options that clearly
fit the blank and that are clearly similar.
Let's look at option.
Option is the aggravated option B, flabbergasted.
Option C, crushed.
Option B, bedazzle option E board an option F, disappointed.
Let us see how to do this particular question.
Now, I would use the four step action plan, which is identify, simplify, predict and eliminate.
Let's identify the direction, words and the context clues in the sentence so that action word and the
context clues here are here.
We have to count excludes given to us, OK, because we have a lot of words that describe the expedition.
Right.
Let's look at what words describe the expedition.
So the expedition was conceived as a mapping project.
OK, this is the first term or the first word that describes the expedition that it was conceived as
a mapping project.
OK, but what happened?
The government officials were dashed by the wealth of information on a myriad of topics.
So myriad of topics would mean that very great.
A vast number of topics they collected.
OK, now look at the surprising element here.
This expedition was clearly conceived as a mapping project.
But what happened?
They got a lot of information on the particular expedition.
Right.
So with this, we have identified two contextual words in this sentence.
Now we are supposed to find the direction word in the sentence.
So the direction world is clearly telling us that that they found a myriad of topics.
Right.
That idea or that part was very strange.
OK, it since it was conceived as a clearly primarily as a mapping project, only, they didn't expect
to have any information.
But when they got a lot of information about different kinds of topics, then they were clearly surprised.
Right.
So this is a very strange phrase that is expected or a strange idea you can clearly see with this.
Let us let us simplify the option.
Let us simplify the sentence we have so we get something like this.
The expedition was conceived as a mapping project, but the officials were dashed at the myriad of topics,
get it right.
So we can clearly see that they saw it only as a mapping project, which means they were expecting only
a few pieces of information, only some information they were expecting.
But it got a lot of information on a lot of topics.
Right.
Which means that the officials were clearly surprised.
Right.
With this.
Let us predict our own answer so you can come up with a simple word like this.
The officials were very surprised when they saw a lot of information.
Right.
So the expedition was conceived as a mapping project, but the officials were surprised when they saw
information coming from in.
A lot of topics with this.
Let us try to eliminate answer options that are not close to surprized.
So let's look at option, a option is aggravated, which means to make serious.
So this is not close to surprise.
We can clearly eliminate it.
Flabbergasted because that would mean greatly surprised.
So flabbergasted would mean someone who's very greatly surprised or very shocked.
That is known as a flabbergasted.
Right.
So we can keep this on hold because this is something close to what we want now.
Crushed means broken.
This has nothing to do with the context.
You can clearly eliminate the sentence.
No bedazzle means amazed or very surprised.
Right.
So here we are.
We have something that we want.
Let's keep this on hold, because by the bedazzle means something that is clearly surprising or something
that's clearly unexpected.
Let's keep that on hold.
Borgman someone who lacks interest.
This is not what we're looking for.
We can eliminate this answer.
And disappointed means someone who's unhappy again where we are not looking for this particular answer.
So we have clearly seen we will be able to eliminate answer options that don't fit the blank, which
is surprised.
Those for answer options are option A, option C, option E and option F.
So these are the forward answer options we were able to eliminate.
So the correct answer by the process of elimination would be option B flabbergasted and option B bedazzle
so flabbergasted and bedazzle both of these mean the same thing.
They are same in meaning and they clearly fit the context of being surprised.
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