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GRE Verbal Flashcards: Synthesize Across Text

Study Synthesize Across Text in GRE Verbal with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

What should you treat as the primary unit when synthesizing: sentences, paragraphs, or the whole passage?

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ANSWER

Paragraph-level roles, then confirm with key sentences. Paragraphs serve as the core building blocks for synthesis, with sentences providing necessary validation to ensure cohesive understanding.

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This deck focuses on Synthesize Across Text, giving you a quick way to review the definitions, rules, and examples that matter most for GRE Verbal.

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Passage: In macroeconomics, some models predict that lowering interest rates stimulates consumption by reducing the return to saving and lowering borrowing costs. Central banks therefore often cut rates during downturns. However, when rates approach zero, conventional policy can lose traction. Banks may become reluctant to lend, and households may prefer to pay down debt rather than borrow more. In such environments, central banks have sometimes turned to unconventional tools such as asset purchases intended to lower longer-term yields. At the same time, fiscal policy can interact with monetary policy. Government spending increases can raise demand directly, but their effectiveness may depend on whether monetary policy accommodates the spending or offsets it to prevent inflation. Some empirical studies suggest that fiscal multipliers are larger when monetary policy is constrained by the zero lower bound. Finally, researchers note that expectations matter: if households believe a stimulus will be withdrawn quickly, they may save rather than spend the additional income. Clear communication about policy persistence can therefore affect outcomes. Question: Which of the following is most strongly supported by information from the passage taken as a whole?
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