<p>Guys, I’d like to argue that it’s not qualification; the correct answer was understatement.
Both sentences had “okay, well, most of the time… BUT blahblahblah is more important” tones… they were understating the general idea in favor of what they individually supported.</p>
<p>everyone whos saying useless for the puffery question - i dont think you guys can support the word ‘useless’ with anything from the passage.</p>
<p>@boston1993 nuts were explicitly mentioned in the first sentence of that passage.</p>
<p>@peachinmkey the words ‘complex mathematics’ were said in the passage.</p>
<p>@peachie, I see your reasoning for the “exaggeration/useless” question, but if you look @ 7 here [Flatter</a> | Define Flatter at Dictionary.com](<a href=“http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flatter]Flatter”>Flatter Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com) it specifically defines flatter as pertaining to oneself.</p>
<p>Although I’m not so sure about the “useless” part. I think the exaggeration answer is probably correct.</p>
<p>Can anyone explain the one with the sentence "“In this matter of the Diamond,” he said, “the characters of innocent people have suffered under suspicion alreadyas you know. The memories of innocent people may suffer”.</p>
<p>hotinpursuit’s answers say “defame” but I thought the one with “guilt” was a better answer.
Explain?</p>
<p>Also, what was the question that asked about “fits”? Unexpected whim, or sudden bursts?</p>
<p>Boston - the nuts are mentioned lower in the passage, where the author talks about how if a human was dropped on a deserted island as a baby, he/she would be glad to learn how to use a rock or whatever… in order to get nuts.</p>
<p>at sunny because prudent also means cautious. she was being cautious in that she didn’t want to tell her daughter about going to college and she wanted to wait for a later time.</p>
<p>@alackgoodnun actually, the butler was hiding his want to write it when he was talking to the guy</p>
<p>kklatte, I put sudden bursts =)</p>
<p>alackgoodnum: That’s a misreading of the passage. The part just before showed just how much she WANTED to do the writing because she thought her abilities were great, but she acted modestly because that’s how you act when asked to do something like that.</p>
<p>@kklatte - I put sudden bursts</p>
<p>for fits i put sudden bursts</p>
<p>can someone compile a list of the vocab… oh and then mc from passages… damn robinson crusoe one, killed me</p>
<p>for fits i put sudden bursts… confirm?</p>
<p>Yeah, I know they were mentioned in the passage. I thought that nuts weren’t included in the quoted lines in the question. I should of clarified. </p>
<p>Uhh, does anyone else remember the answers for the nuts question?</p>
<p>@kk - Sudden bursts.</p>
<p>For the “fits” thing, I put whimsy or whichever had whim in it. The next two or three questions all focused on how science moves unexpectedly sometimes and even the passage shifted gears to talk a bit about how it’s not really expected what will happen.
I don’t think it was sudden bursts because they never mention anything on like random bouts of progress, but mention zig-zagginess. Which is random and whimsical.</p>
<p>She was being cautious as to avoid quarreling with her daughter, who is a typical teenager.</p>
<p>I agree RustGust. Also, sudden bursts seems too indicative of “fits of rage” – too literal.</p>
<p>anyone want to predict a curve with this?
: <a href=“http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf[/url]”>http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf</a></p>
<p>@rustgust, I disagree, it would be sudden bursts, because the passage was talking about how in science advances are made randomly.
There is no set pattern to the advancement of science and the zigzag example does not really apply here here i believe that was referring to something else.</p>