[Video] Q5: As used in lines 11, 14, and 18, the word “fashionable” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 5 From the Reading Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So question five asks us as using lines 11, 2 14, and 18, the word fashionable most nearly means what? 3 So let's go back to these lines and let's take a look at our 4 answer choices, um, after the fact, 5 but first after we look at these lines, let's try to replace fashionable with 6 our own words, do it to do so 11 to 14. 7 See to it that you're not become a fashionable artist at present. 8 Your calling begins to assert itself too loudly. And your drawing is at times 9 quite weak. You're already striving after the fashionable style because it strikes the eye 10 at once, have a care society, 11 or it begins to have the attraction for you. I've seen you with a 12 shiny hat, a foppish neckerchief. It is seductive to paint, 13 fashionable, little pictures and portraits for money, 14 but the talent is a ruined, not developed by that means. 15 Okay. So what I would say, he's kind of saying my fashionable here is 16 like, what is in, you know, 17 the current Vogue and what everyone is doing. 18 You know, that sort of thing he's saying it's like the fashionable style, 19 what everyone's doing, but that doesn't make great art in, 20 you know, it's almost like a little, a little, 21 uh, pretentious in the, um, 22 way the professor speaks about it. Um, 23 but you know, that seems to kind of be what he's, what he's going 24 for with this is saying it's like the fashionable style. 25 You're making these fashionable little pictures, these, 26 this, you know, like what everyone'...