October 09 - SC and CR summary list

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>Hey everybody! I have been tutoring to earn some extra $$$. So I took the SAT today. Here is what I remember. </p>

<ol>
<li>Inhospitable</li>
<li>Defiant .. Reinforced</li>
<li>Satellite</li>
<li>Redundancy .. frustrations</li>
<li>Synthesize .. Crystallize</li>
<li>Polymath</li>
<li>Entranced .. lexicon</li>
<li>hobble</li>
<li>Correlation .. Ward off</li>
<li>Grounded in</li>
<li>Plasticity</li>
<li>Admonition</li>
<li>Captious .. Edifying</li>
<li>Accidental</li>
<li>Struggle for .. tyrannical</li>
<li>Achieved .. eluded</li>
<li>Slapstick</li>
<li>Recrimination</li>
<li>Specific .. ecletic</li>
</ol>

<p>Critical Reading Vocabulary: WRY, METAPHOR, MOCKING </p>

<p>Will try to remember more.</p>

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<p>What was the question where the answer was redundancy/frustration? What were the other choices? This worries me because I don’t remember that at all. Someone please answer this asap!</p>

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<p>same I what was the context/other options with the redundancy/frustration one?</p>

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<p>what were the other choices with satellite?
i remember meteor and constellation…</p>

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<p>core was one, too</p>

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<p>i think the redundancy one went something like,
‘I’m sick of tired of being sick and tired.’</p>

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<p>wait…but i didnt choose redundancy and frustration! chose something else…</p>

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<p>The other likely option for that was ‘euphemism/despair’, I remember, which is what I chose… now the question is whether ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’ is a euphemism or not.</p>

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<p>yea i chose euphemism and despair. It’s not redundant because it has a purpose, whereas redundant is usually repetition of an act needlessly.</p>

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<p>And from some research it seems that that is NOT a euphemism, so darn.</p>

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<p>Metaphor was incorrect.</p>

<p>The answer was parallel structure.</p>

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<p>It is definitely a redundancy.</p>

<p>parallel structure is correct for the nikhil passage.</p>

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<p>yeah i chose euphemism/despair!
but what does euphemism mean? :S</p>

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<p>[Euphemism</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism]Euphemism”>Euphemism - Wikipedia) shows that it’s not a euphemism and thus the only respectable choice seems to be redundancy, even though there’s a specific word to describe oft used phrases like ‘I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired’. I was thinking that euphemism was the word in question, but alas.</p>

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<p>@ishi a euphemism would be saying that your pet goldfish “has gone off to a better place” instead of saying it died.</p>

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<p>I said “parallel structure” as well… I was 100% confident.</p>

<p>I remember “mocking”… what was the “wry” question?</p>

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<p>yeah its def not Metaphor
it was parallel structure bcz in the 2nd or 3rd para the sentences were something like 'it was as Nikhil he…/It was as Nikhil…'etc etc</p>

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<p>@nj wry was the answer to the tone of voice of the woman art professor passage.</p>

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<p>Can someone explain why the ‘came equipped with a flock of sheep’ part was mocking a biography as opposed to satirizing rural life?</p>

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<p>@theReach oh yeah…ur right.Darn!</p>

<p>The ‘wry’ question was the tone of the the artist in CR</p>