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GRE Verbal Reasoning
QUESTION #8128
Question 1
A certain novelist devotes so much description to his characters' clothing that readers quickly sense that such _______ concerns, while not unworthy of notice, have crowded out any more purely literary goals.
Correct Answer Explanation
The passage is entirely about descriptions of clothing. Sartorial means relating to tailoring or clothing — it's precisely the word that describes fashion/dress concerns. 'Didactic' means instructional. 'Syntactical' relates to grammar. 'Irrelevant' would be a judgment, not a description of the type of concern. Only 'sartorial' accurately labels the category of concern being described.
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