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SAT Reading: Sentence Completion Drill 2, Problem 8

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It was a dark and Shmoopy night...

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Which word could fill in the blank so that

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the sentence below makes sense?

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The wind from the landfill was particularly strong that morning, causing drivers on the

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freeway to roll up their windows to avoid the blank odor.

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Here are the potential answers.

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If drivers are rolling up their windows to avoid it, this "odor" must be straight

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nasty.

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To solve this one, we're just going to cruise down the list to find a word that describes

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something that seriously stinks. We can eliminate (E) right away, since "fragrant"

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refers to pleasant smells.

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(C) is also out because "olfactory" means something that has to do with the sense of

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smell in general.

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(D) and (A) are both wrong because "fervent" has nothing to do with smell, and there's

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nothing "ambiguous" about the scent of a landfill.

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"Putrid" describes the scent of something that's rotting, so it fits the stinky bill.

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Therefore the answer is (B). B for "Better run the other way."

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