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SAT Reading 2.2 Short Passages 220 Views
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SAT Reading: Short Passages Drill 2, Problem 2
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- Information and Ideas / Interpreting words and phrases in context
- Product Type / SAT Math
- Vocabulary / Determine meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words
- Reading closely / Citing textual evidence
Transcript
- 00:03
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
Full Transcript
- 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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