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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- forge: make a fake copy of something (usually artwork or a signature) tech-: "ch" has a /k/ sound
- school/schol- (scholar, scholarship, scholastic)
- chem- (chemistry, chemical, chemotherapy, alchemy)
- mech-, psych-, char- (character, charisma, characteristic)
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- part C
- 1 forgery
- 2 The artist saw the paintings and said they were fake.
- 3 lack of scientific methods
- 4 digital imaging and statistical models of the brushstrokes
- 5 The real works can be worth millions of dollars more than the forgeries.
- part D
- 1 T
- 2 NG
- 3 F - "entirely by chance"
- 4 T - "most dealers are not this fortunate"
- 5 F
- 6 F - his brushstrokes were analyzed, not his signature
- part A
- 1 financially successful
- 2 fooled, convinced of something false
- 3 been discovered
- 4 following or investigating
- 5 labor-intensive, requiring lots of work
- 6 arsenal: a large collection (especially of weapons)
- forensic techniques: scientific techniques for investigating crimes (like CSI)
- 7 make something undiscoverable
- "pass off A as B" = make people think it's B, but really it's A
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- white-collar crime: rich people crime, such as forgeries, art theft, financial fraud (typically doesn't directly injure or kill anyone, but involves millions or billions of dollars)
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