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Sentence Completion Drill 2, Problem 1

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00:03

Here's a Shmoopy question for you...

00:05

Which word could fill in the blank so that

00:07

the sentence below makes sense?

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Although Elisabeth didn't get into her first-choice college, she was reminded of her blank options

00:15

when her mother mentioned the many other schools where she had been accepted.

00:20

Here are the potential answers.

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Elisabeth's mom says that Elisabeth has "many" other options for college.

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So we figure the word in the blank has to be a synonym for "many."

00:38

(A) doesn't fit because "limitation" means a restriction of some kind.

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Both "deficiency" and "scarcity" mean a shortage or lack of something

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so (B) and (C) are the opposite of what we're looking for.

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(D) looks promising because "myriad" means a very large number. If this is the one, though,

01:00

it would mean that Elisabeth's mom is exaggerating a bit.

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"Myriad" was the word originally used in classical history to describe a unit of ten thousand.

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That would be a lot of application essays.

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After taking a glance at (E), though, we're sure (D) is the word we're looking for.

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An "inadequacy" is a failing or lack of something, so it doesn't say what we need

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it to. Even though it means that Elisabeth's mom

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is probably stretching the truth a bit, we're going with (D) on this one.

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D for "Don't judge her mom too harshly."

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