Official Verbal Thread - Version with Astronauts

<p>The paradox one was "I am never less alone that when I am alone"</p>

<p>I cannot remember 'enthralled' or 'chagrin.' Crap. From this topic looks like I got 5-6 wrong on verbal... Bah. There goes my 800... =(</p>

<p>Hey Everyone, my essay topic wasn't about memories or whatever; it was something about learning to be practical (ie make money) vs. having a good life.</p>

<p>Yeah i got many of those same answers and I definitely think the El Greco was the experimental because I had all of the other passages except that one.
Did anyone else also hate that passage on the astronauts? lets go over some of those answers i don't see that we have done that yet, and, ironically, that is the title of this thread lol.</p>

<p>This doesn't look too bad, other than a few vocabs I got wrong. Prob around same score as last time.</p>

<p>Hey, I had 4 CRs, so I had an experimental, but I didn't have either the El Greco one or the Poetry Slam one! I think the experimental for me might be one with Civil Rights and a royal girl and her grandma.. any thoughts? Either there are different CR experimentals, or El Greco and P. Slam aren't it?</p>

<p>I remember on the austronaut passage it asks about why they have this jargon.</p>

<p>hey guys, what was the question for enthralled?</p>

<p>oh yeah, I had two writing too, i think the slam one is experimental. In the collegeboard review book, section 5 is always left blank because it says it's experimental in the book.</p>

<p>from wat ive seen, there r like more than 3 different writing sections, i think we can find out on the collegeboard website sooner or later which one is the experimental, but i dun see enuff evidence to conclude either of which is the experimental section</p>

<p>a ques, for one of the writing passages, what does "like" mean, i think it's the el greco one, did you guys put appreciate or adore</p>

<p>i remember a question on the first writing section, it was a identifying sentence error:
children develop an independence, parents find it hard to accept... sumthing along those lines.
i hope the poetry slam was the experimental</p>

<p>but we shuld talk about the bilingual caligraphy passage</p>

<p>For the passage about the hollywood, I said "cornerstone" meant an "essential part", or something along those lines, not "framework" as sunnyboy stated. Also, I said that the author of the astronaut passage describes the speaking of the astronauts as a "foreign language" in order to show that laypersons would find it needlessly complicated.</p>

<p>I put cornerstone also.</p>

<p>ebullience....pessimism
Something about a group's leaders have to rethink their policies because the initial _____ gave away to ____ outlook(?)</p>

<p>What did you guys put for the question that asked why the author described the lingo of the astronaut's as a foreign language???</p>

<p>I believe some of the answers were:</p>

<p>-laypersons may find it needlessly complicated
-it uses new words in unconventional ways</p>

<p>was the laysperson answer correct?</p>

<p>Bilingual caligraphy:
(I'm not sure if these are correct...)</p>

<p>punishment-mother often use this
most similar to an editor at a publishing house
both mother and daughter often get annoyed at each other
list of different jobs (baby, wedding...etc.) - depicts the variety of the mother's caligraphy</p>

<p>I thought it was the layperson one extremefob.</p>

<p>mitsu,</p>

<p>I did not think the punishment was often used by the mother. I thought the punishment was a difficult technique to master.</p>

<p>i got the same thing as mitsu</p>

<p>Heltahir:
Yeah....I guess your answer makes sense (punishment->difficult), but I thought by the way the author wrote it that it (making the girl practice caligraphy) was a common punishment</p>

<p>I can't remember much about the astronaut one...</p>