When the stem asks for the most specific choice, pick the concrete detail. Vague praise is the trap, even if it is shorter. Shortest correct is a different job, in the shortest correct answer.
Name the thing
Three oak benches in the courtyard beats nice furniture outside. Deleting a whole sentence is a different leftover, in deleting a sentence. Wordiness as a set is in redundancy and wordiness.
The bottom line
Specific means named. Short is not the same as specific.
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