# Literature passage vocabulary

Words for character, tone, and the way a narrator reveals or conceals.

2 question(s), with answers and distractor explanations.

### The memoir is unusually ____ about the author’s own missteps, naming decisions most writers would quietly omit.

*core · literature*

0. candid  **← answer**
1. evasive
2. laudatory
3. derivative

**Why it fits:** Naming your own mistakes when others would hide them is frankness about oneself.

**Why the others fail:**
- *evasive* — "Evasive" means avoiding the subject, which is the behaviour the sentence contrasts against.
- *laudatory* — "Laudatory" means full of praise, but the subject here is the author’s own errors.
- *derivative* — "Derivative" means unoriginal, which is unrelated to honesty.

### Ordinarily talkative, he became ____ whenever the subject of the trial came up.

*stretch · literature*

0. reticent  **← answer**
1. voluble
2. irate
3. jovial

**Why it fits:** "Ordinarily talkative" sets up a contrast, so the word must mean unwilling to speak.

**Why the others fail:**
- *voluble* — "Voluble" means talkative — the same as his ordinary state, so there would be no contrast.
- *irate* — "Irate" means angry, which is a plausible reaction but not what the contrast with talkativeness demands.
- *jovial* — "Jovial" means cheerful, which does not contrast with being talkative at all.

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