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Responsible state fiscal policy requires more than just balancing the current year’s budget. It must also include ensuring that the budget is on a sustainable path. Otherwise, policymakers cannot have the lasting impact they hope for. This risk is especially high in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Record budget surpluses, driven largely by federal pandemic aid, empowered states to adopt historically large tax cuts and spending increases from 2021 to 2023.
State leaders must be able to assess whether their decisions will be affordable over the long term or will jeopardize their ability to solve state problems or even sustain programs and services in the future. Unfortunately, the nature of state budget processes discourages such long-term thinking. State policymakers devote much of their time to developing, enacting, and implementing annual or biennial budgets, a prime opportunity to achieve immediate policy goals.
One key strategy for changing this short-term focus is for states to use long-term budget assessments and budget stress tests to regularly measure risks, anticipate potential shortfalls, and identify ways to address impending challenges. Long-term budget assessments project revenue and spending several years into the future, and stress tests estimate the size of temporary budget shortfalls that would result from recessions or other economic events and gauge whether states are prepared for these events.
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QUESTÃO
Considering the ideas conveyed in the previous text, as well as its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
In the first sentence of the second paragraph, the word “jeopardize” is being used with a similar meaning as the one of enhance.
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Errado
🔐 Gabarito (clique para revelar)
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada
A banca exige julgamento lexical e semântico do verbo “jeopardize”, utilizado na primeira frase do segundo parágrafo.
O comando solicita verificar se o termo pode ser interpretado como semanticamente equivalente a enhance.
🔍 2️⃣ Análise técnica
No trecho “will jeopardize their ability to solve state problems”, o verbo jeopardize expressa a ideia de colocar em risco ou ameaçar negativamente.
Já enhance possui sentido oposto, significando melhorar ou fortalecer. Portanto, não há equivalência semântica entre os termos.
⚠️ 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da CESPE/CEBRASPE
A banca explora a falta de atenção a antônimos funcionais.
Candidatos que interpretam superficialmente o contexto podem confundir jeopardize com verbos de efeito positivo, quando, na verdade, o termo indica prejuízo ou ameaça.
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ Jeopardize = colocar em risco / ameaçar.
✔ Enhance = melhorar / fortalecer.
✔ Termos semanticamente opostos.
✔ Substituição incorreta no contexto.
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (E)