October 2011 SAT Reading

<p>What was “financially understated” the answer for? I don’t remember that being an answer, are you guys sure?</p>

<p>@Jd989989: I put A which was modestly something. The rest didnt make sense to me. Like for 23 and 24 were they both B? I remember 24 was like “collective opinion” what was 23?</p>

<p>^^^Only used modestly. The only other one talked about cost, which was never in the passage.</p>

<p>wait, how was the vocab overall for you guys?</p>

<p>and what was the answer to the vocab one with the choices mercurial and officious or something?</p>

<p>The answer was mercurial because she had a volatile temperament.</p>

<p>@ProspectiveAppli
author of passage 2 replying to passage 1 talking about developing wind power/alternative energy</p>

<p>I put “financially understated” for the question that asked how the author of passage 2 would react to the “First approach” or something and the approach was searching for better efficient technology and alternate energy sources i believe.</p>

<p>I put mercurial and very positive about it</p>

<p>Can someone please compile the answers to the nuclear one? and @jaysean, im like 1000% sure its mercurial</p>

<p>what other vocab ones did you guys think were hard? and what answers did you put???</p>

<p>Was the Vocab question on “hot humid day and attention” experimental or real? I can’t remember what section that was but i’m 100% positive the answer is “lassitude” and “fix”</p>

<p>@cortana. You are wrong. It was “had been tired but left for wanting” or something like that. He specifically referenced that in his second paragraph.</p>

<p>Was there a #3 on the vocab that was also pretty hard? I forgot the question…</p>

<p>And was it supplant or exacerbate? For the vocab which asked about the governor not giving money to the town because of mismanagement?</p>

<p>^He’s right. It was tried but wanting. Weird wording, but it’s right.</p>

<p>here are the answers that i remember putting down…</p>

<p>one author “respects” another author
a section of the passage was “self-admonishing”
art is a detour because it was away from “everyday life”
“recondite, mercurial, reticence, edify, digress, exacerbate, faculty + emotion” for vocabulary
something comes with both “gains and losses”
caustic, “emphatic” for tone of passage could easily be “vehement”
“handling” for treatment
“human complexity”
the author had a lot “in similar” (or something similar) to the black woman
the Fleece dude was “eccentric” and “paranoid”
“concrete reality vs abstract of art itself”
“personal + reflective”
“fundamentally human centered” Walden
“political philosophy”
“it has been tried and found wanting”–i dont remember anything about financially understated
engineers and scientists was “wariness”
dude about Fleece was “disappointed”
the muddy waters is “apprehensively” doing something
like an “archaeologist”</p>

<p>something about a hypothetical situation and an “account of a phenomenon”, both of which im not too sure about, im guessing the hypothetical should be “alternative”
i put exonerate which is wrong, the answer is “ameliorate” for a vocab question about social injustice</p>

<p>i did not have experimental</p>

<p>someone organize the answers plz…</p>

<p>Did you guys put account for a phenomenon too? Also when will we get our results?</p>

<p>@Grisam
exacerbate. supplant doesn’t really make sense. i think</p>

<p>What was the answer to the vocab question with the choice “Pordent” in it? </p>

<p>Also, are you sure it that the “political philosophy” one was not, personal complexity? All throught the passage she talks about how complex the lady is, she praises the lady, and says how the being a biographer is inherently delving into a persons complex self.</p>

<p>I put personal complexity</p>

<p>so was “lassitude” and “fix” an answer or was that experimental? I also remember having “viscuous” and “faculty and Emotion” as answers</p>

<p>and yea it’s “ameliorate”</p>

<p>Also, it couldnt be “Vehement.” “Caustic” is MUCH more appropriate. Caustic means “bitter, harsh, attacking,” which was clearly the tone of the way the author discussed coal as an energy source.</p>