新GRE閱讀的注意單詞字尾技巧

gre大白皮NO.4-9第250頁No.8第一套題第3section短文閱讀理解的第20題

原文：

We believe,pehaps unimaginative, that this...

考點就是這個unimaginative

正確選項是A pedestrian 這個詞本身沒有必要講解，如果你查閱韋氏字典這個單詞的`解釋就是 unimaginative /commonplace

問題出在，不明確unimaginative 和 unimaginable的差別，是錯誤選擇NOVEL的原因。前者是沒有想象力的後者是不可想象的

-tive 這個字尾的含義：having a tendency to do, or tending to, 傾向於

unimaginative 在朗文字典的解釋比較準確：

lacking the ability to think of new or unusaul ideas, ordinary and boring

-able 表示能力，所以unimaginable是不可想象的，not imaginable or comprehensible ，too extraordinary or improbable to believe，INCREDIABLE

Synonymsfantastic, implausible, inconceivable, unbelievable, unconvincing, unimaginable, unthinkable Related Wordsdoubtful, dubious, far-fetched, fishy, flimsy, questionable, suspect, unlikely, unreasonable; hopeless, impossible; absurd, outlandish, preposterous, ridiculous; indefensible, insupportable, untenable Near Antonymslikely, possible, probable; reasonable