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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.2 Summary. Which of the following best describes the purpose of this passage?
ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.2 Vocabulary-In-Context. In this passage, the word "illustrious" most nearly means...what?
ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.3 Vocabulary-In-Context. The word "preposterous" most nearly means what?
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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.3 Vocabulary-In-Context. The word "preposterous" most nearly means what?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by mysterious
- 00:07
disappearances by the way has anyone seen our ham sandwich [girl using binoculars in the trees]
- 00:11
alright check out the following passage let's just read it Roanoke was a colony
- 00:16
established by English settlers in the 1580s the group of colonists who had
- 00:20
settled on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina mysteriously disappeared
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- 00:24
after three years had passed without any supplies from England their fate is
- 00:28
unknown and the only clue is the word Croatoan carved into a tree on the
- 00:34
deserted island there are many theories to explain the colonists disappearance
- 00:38
some more preposterous than others but it is unlikely that the truth will ever
- 00:43
be uncovered unless you watch The X Files
- 00:46
all right the word preposterous most nearly means what? it comes before
- 00:51
posterous. All right here the potential answers [mumbling]
- 00:55
all right well there are endless theories about what happened at Roanoke [Woman stood by a wooden house at Roanoke]
- 00:59
from starvation, to aliens, to starving alien, what does it mean if some of them
- 01:06
are preposterous well it's actually a bit difficult to infer the exact meaning
- 01:11
of the word from this passage but we can use a little creative problem-solving to [alien beamed up by spacecraft]
- 01:15
at least remove the incorrect answer option B and C basically mean the same
- 01:18
thing to be plausible essentially means to be supported by firm evidence as in [An alient spacecraft between two moons]
- 01:23
it is plausible that texting and driving is dangerous [person texting while driving]
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like seriously people don't do it but because two of these answers mean the
- 01:31
same thing well they can't be right deduction it's a lovely thing bye B and C [Spacecraft fires at two moons and they explode]
- 01:36
And impossible doesn't quite make sense in the context here theories are
- 01:40
credible or not credible as in the theory of gravity [Person parachuting in the air]
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probably credible the theory that lizard men live in the earth..not so much yeah
- 01:50
but we wouldn't describe a theory as impossible even in Mordor. The dictionary [lizard man pointing to lord sauron's eye]
- 01:56
definition of preposterous is contrary to nature, reason or common sense like
- 02:02
Adam Sandler's movie career.. we love you, Adam. Sing the Hanukkah song again
- 02:06
and the answer choice that most closely matches the definition of preposterous
- 02:10
is A the word preposterous most nearly means far-fetched or ridiculous and now [The letter A surrounded by fireworks going off]
- 02:17
for our next mysterious disappearance will discuss... where coins go when
- 02:22
they fall into the couch, or how about socks in the washing machine [lzard man with piles of coins underground]
- 02:26
maybe there's a vortex in there
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