June 2010 Critical Reading

<p>Yeah, pianoman, I think we’re just debating adj(etc) and the other a one (can you tell how great my vocab is?)…</p>

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<p>I don’t remember either of these.</p>

<p>Piano, pretty sure that’s wrong.</p>

<p>diverse
ignominy
apopletic
approbated
acolyte
ubiqutous
complcity + exonerated of
proscribed
spare
apalled
underdog
upbraid</p>

<p>NOT:
enervating
adjudicate?
culpable
tutor
bombastic
self-effacing
venerable</p>

<p>a coach, (some teacher) is direct and _<strong><em>, but is willing to </em></strong> students who aren’t giving their full effort
Personal contribution/participation is a primary rule for the committee, therefore sending surrogates to meetings is ________
It was Jesse Jackson was a _______ to his mentor or something like that.</p>

<p>Valedictorian seems wrong.</p>

<p>i know that a valedictory speech is a going-away speech
just because the best student is given that privilege doesn’t mean that valedictory also means academically dedicated</p>

<p>How the **** was that spare??</p>

<p>Apalled was part of the passages, I don’t think it was one of the SC.</p>

<p>does anyone remember what approbate is?</p>

<p>Unfortunately, the SAT does use lesser known meanings (I don’t remember the exact word, but it screwed me over for the last SAT I took). If you want to be technical, adjudicator USUALLY means “someone who presides, judges and arbitrates during a formal dispute.” That’s the better known/widely used meaning… and in this case no dispute was occurring.</p>

<p>i remember garulous was an answer choice for #5, it was about a senator</p>

<p>why can’t i remember approbation? i remember carping was one of them and i was like lol sounds like my mom</p>

<p>oh well in my school the valedictorian has the top class rank so I just assumed</p>

<p>approbate wasnt an answer and i dnt rememebr it.</p>

<p>Come on, you can’t just say “You’re wrong. Sorry” … you have to add some credibility to what you put or else we’re getting nowhere in this discussion! I may indeed be wrong, but putting a word into a blank isn’t just going by its definition to me, it’s going by how it’s commonly used. </p>

<p>Use Google, search it up and you’ll see that acolyte is used around 99% of the time as related to a religious clergyman who lights the altars and attends to priests. It just doesn’t make sense that The College Board would consider a word correct in an instance where it is NEVER commonly used.</p>

<p>I definitely did not answer approbation for one of them.</p>

<p>no its not garrulous cuz that guy got angry; its apoplectic
i thought if you were going unconscious you wouldn’t be angry lol, but apoplectic can also mean like having a fit</p>

<p>@carman, ur rite about that, but CB does give questions like that
but the other choices just don’t make any sense</p>

<p>What did the father think the girl would learn from the vacation?</p>

<p>What was the answer to the question that was between react similarly to opposing values and have same reaction to comments?</p>

<p>Dictionary.com says that apoplectic can mean intensely furious, and it used an example of a governor being apoplectic.</p>