Official June SAT CRITICAL READING: Yellowstone Park

<p>^ yes to olfactory</p>

<p>a lot of OP's answers are wrong. Someone needs to make a new list.</p>

<p>taz, i put olfactory.</p>

<p>vivasaurous, i put ignorance cos he doesn't know much about his dad. Not too sure though.
anyone else?</p>

<p>woah, it appears I am psychic. somehow I answered his question before it was even posted</p>

<p>I put ignorance as well.</p>

<p>i put instructions for steps too because it refered to a certain line where it talked about what the kids should do.</p>

<p>I kind of got tripped up on the vandilism/graffiti one. Anyone remember any answers from that one?</p>

<p>BTW, haha 4 of the questions I guess on based on yall's reply are right :D More luck please! :)</p>

<p>Yay! I got all the SC's right!</p>

<p>For the passages I got:</p>

<p>Movements
Edifying
Paradox
Digression</p>

<p>Omg...that's all I can remember O_o</p>

<p>Tommy91: So shouldn't the kids "do" (or execute) "movements"?</p>

<p>Sentence Completions thus far:
1. Longevity
2. Characterize .. Mountainous
3. Ameliorate .. exacerbate
4. Remuneration
5. Abstemious
6. Malicious
7. Suspended .. Suffered
8. Obstinate
9. Olfactory
10 Obstreperous
11 Iconoclast .. skewered
12 Nuance (because of subtleties)
13. Deceit .. willing
14. Undaunted by
15. Synthesizing .. interweaving
16. Parity</p>

<p>16 Down 3 to go</p>

<p>Is everyone 100% sure about iconoclast/skewered. That was the lady was a _____ thinker so she _______sarcosant beliefs or something like that right?</p>

<p>For the puzzling fabricating passage: The chinese guy was talking about how he was filling in the blanks in his mind...fabricating facts, if you will, about his fathers life. He was talking about writing fiction as well. Those clues tell you that it was puzzling-fabricating. Correct me if I'm wrong?</p>

<p>@ Threehittlolumby, I think u are complete RIGHT. exactly my thoughts</p>

<p>well, he wasn't fabricating. He was sort of jumbling biographical facts together and thought, "Oh well, this doesn't make any sense."</p>

<p>-i put puzzling and fabricating too, but not sure.</p>

<p>squirrel sense of smell one was olfactory correct?
-yes, process of elimination for me and just checked the def.</p>

<p>questions of mine:</p>

<p>-what's the definitive answer to the first question in the vandalism section. well, it's the one that asked why it took so long or something?
-does anyone remember what the sentence completion that went w/ malicious was? it seems like an easy word, but i dont remember putting that or not.
(medicine and alternative medicine)
-a question asked you to compare the two passages. was it ancient ritual or the phenomena one?
-what would the first passage say about the second. was it that the practitioners were misguided or whatever?</p>

<p>I went with the enigma-edifying one, because he was learning the facts about his dad, and then he felt like it was changes to more of an enigma, a mystery, like there was no way to fill in the blanks in his father's story</p>

<p>The malicious sentence was like "The biography was full of lies blah blah it's malicious intent" I think</p>

<p>I THINK it was practitioners relied too little on natural things.</p>

<p>i knew i was right...just have trouble remembering it</p>

<p>^ the malicious one was some sort of book that used false quotations and half-truths or something</p>

<p>ok Sc
The father that didnt show favoritism to his two kids was?????
The guy that yelled and cursed in the restaurant?????</p>

<p>Just studied the Sentence Completion thread. Thanks guys. Here are the 19 SCs:</p>

<ol>
<li>Longevity</li>
<li>Characterize .. mountainous</li>
<li>Ameliorate .. exacerbate</li>
<li>Remuneration</li>
<li>Abstemious</li>
<li>Malicious</li>
<li>Controversial .. hypothesis</li>
<li>Suspended .. suffered</li>
<li>Obstinate
10 Olfactory
11 Obstreperous
12 Iconoclast .. skewered
13 Nuance
14 Deceit .. willing
15 underestimated .. complexity
16 undaunted by
17 parity
18 synthesize .. interweaving
19 Vitriolic .. savor</li>
</ol>

<p>Yea!!!!</p>

<p>vivsaurus</p>

<p>vandalism 1 would be slow to change socially.</p>

<p>I was choosing between the choice (one focused on the present and two focused on the past) and the choice (one describes a phenomenon and two is an example). I picked the latter because the former had something incorrect about it: it talked about one focusing on the present practice of the specific practice mentioned in two; this is not true; it talked in general terms about alternative medicine.</p>

<p>it didnt' ask what the first would say about the second, it asked what a group of people mentioned inside passage 1 would say about the second, and they would say that the practice in the second is following a time-honed tradition or something along those lines.</p>