October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>Wow, I missed a lot just in a few minutes, copy/add to the list:
Chart
Entranced…lexicon
Compliant
Wry?
Admiration?
Inhospitable
Mocking? Or jeering?
slapstick
immediately understandable?
full time endeavor
women and aristocrat’s social position (I think this is the myth doesn’t take social context into account one)
rustic circumstances
recrimination
hobble
someone get grounded in for the rock one?
independence?
explain reaction
polymath
captious/edifying
satellite
intense/involuntary
Historical speculation?
genius is not a quality inherited in certain groups</p>

<p>Hobble (transitive verb) To hamper the action or progress of; impede.</p>

<p>The political opponent clearly wanted to hobble the other’s campaign.
Also, disseminate is usually used in association with the spread of physical objects, such as disseminating pamphlets, rather than “scattering” a campaign.</p>

<p>Was the section with the vocab question with “admonition” as the answer experimental?</p>

<p>i said passage 1 should be called “the feast before us.” anyone?</p>

<p>Was it “admonition” or “indiscretion”?</p>

<p>@ people who put compromised/coalesced,
synthesize can be used w/o a verb, to mean ‘putting together.’</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the question with the newspaper well? it was either capricious/edifying or didactic/extempraneous - if she was disappointed with her own writing, it seems like it would be didactic/extemporaneous b/c her writing turned out to be bad and instructional instead of free and flowing…</p>

<p>the sentence completion with “admonition” was NOT an experimental section (and it was admonition for the correct answer)</p>

<p>She was disappointed witht he editor’s comments, so he wouldn’t be didactic since he isn’t helping her at all</p>

<p>yes to “feast”</p>

<p>but I thought that was experimental? </p>

<p>if not then even better :)</p>

<p>what was the problem for ‘admonition again?’</p>

<p>It was captious/edifying.</p>

<p>you guys are nuts</p>

<p>compromise does not mean anything close to synthesize or put together. it has a negative connotation. thus, it was synthesized/crystallize</p>

<p>The question was about why did the passage talk about the other families’ daughters</p>

<p>can some1 tell me what the question was for synthesized/crystallize one???</p>

<p>The park ranger warned the hikers about the trail, but they ignored her ________.</p>

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<p>It was captious, not capricious, and edifying–and that was the answer.</p>

<p>Only after she synthesized her research did the results crystallize into actual patterns. Or something like that.</p>

<p>i think i put indiscretion for that one jb</p>