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Reading: Vocabulary, Problem 2. What is the meaning of the word stalwart?
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- 00:03
And here's your shmoopy word du jour:
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Despite the cold, the stalwart search and rescue team continued to look for the missing hiker.
- 00:13
Even the mountain lion they interviewed claimed not to have seen her.
- 00:20
What is the meaning of the word stalwart? And here are the potential answers:
- 00:28
OK, so what is this question testing?
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- 00:31
Other than our ability to tell when a mountain lion is... lyin'?
- 00:35
It's asking if we know what STALWART means. Well, if we weren't familiar with the word,
- 00:40
we could take a great hint from the first part of the question:
- 00:43
DESPITE the cold -- or... think of it like "to spite the cold" -- and we're sure you know spite...
- 00:49
...as in "to spite his face, he cut off his nose"... yeah, that spite...
- 00:57
So in spite of the cold, the search team... blah blah blah...
- 01:00
Let's take a quick scan of the answers to see if there's anything that stands out.
- 01:05
Well, option A looks pretty good -- dedicated and hardworking.
- 01:11
If you replaced the word stalwart with dedicated and hardworking, the sentence would totally
- 01:15
make sense.
- 01:16
The other answer choices... eih, not so much.
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The unreliable search team? No way -- they're fighting the snow and cold and misery to find
- 01:24
their little mountain climber.
- 01:28
How about answer C: the search team wasn't at an impasse -- they were working, moving,
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doing, acting...
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...hopefully, if you didn't know what impasse meant you'd recognize the pass in there
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and figure that the "im" meant "ain't gonna" or "not" or something like that...
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D is kinda the curveball tricky answer because it's not awful.
- 01:48
If a team is experienced, presumably they've fought cold before....
- 01:57
...but in this case, experienced isn't a direct simile for stalwart.
- 02:01
These questions want the BEST answer, not the perfect one and A -- dedicated and hardworking...
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...is better than D, experienced.
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So it's A. As in... Always look behind a mountain lion's back.
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