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SAT Reading Sentence Completion Drill 4, Problem 6

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00:03

To Shmoop or not to Shmoop, that is... not this question....

00:08

Which word could fill in the blank so that the sentence below makes sense?

00:11

The illustration depicting a computer in the middle of a prehistoric jungle was a visual

00:16

representation of blank, existing outside of its own time.

00:21

And here are the potential answers...

00:26

This list of "ism's" isn't as intimidating as it might seem at first...

00:30

...since the sentence tells us that the missing word means "existing outside of its own time."

00:39

We can feed the word "pragmatism" to the raptors, since it means the practice of approaching

00:43

things in a practical way.

00:46

"Monotheism" means the worship of one god, so it's raptor-meat, too.

00:52

"Imperialism" is when one nation dominates another economically, politically, or both.

00:57

(E) doesn't fit either, because "Jingoism" refers to extremes nationalism coupled with

01:02

a belligerent foreign policy.

01:04

Basically, it's when one country thinks it's all that and then some.

01:08

"Anachronism" describes something that exists outside of its own time...

01:12

...which is exactly what we're on the hunt for.

01:15

The root word chron means time, so there was an extra hint buried in there.

01:21

Looks like choice (C) is the only one to survive the bloodbath.

01:24

Which is good because our raptors were getting full anyway.

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