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SAT Reading: Short Passages Drill 2, Problem 2

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Here's your short passage shmoop du jour...

00:11

Press pause and read to your heart's content...

00:20

The word "intrepid" in line 6 most nearly means...what?

00:25

And here are the potential answers...

00:30

Even if we've only ever heard "intrepid" followed

00:33

by "reporter"...

00:33

...we're looking at you, Lois Lane...

00:35

...we can still eliminate some of our answer choices.

00:39

The explorers aren't neglecting anything; if they were, they'd be pretty unsuccessful explorers...

00:44

Therefore we can cross off (D). The explorers aren't measuring the depth

00:49

of the ocean in an irrational way, and they aren't being particularly guarded either...

00:53

So (E) is off the list.

00:55

They're also not being manipulative...

00:58

Making (C) a no-go. Since they're doing something that no one's

01:02

done before... in a way that's not too extreme...

01:05

(B) is the correct answer.

01:07

We should all be grateful that our early explorers were intrepid and not... totally insane.

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