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SAT Reading Sentence Completion Drill 3, Problem 2
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- Vocabulary / Determine meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words
- Vocabulary / Determine meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words
- Reading closely / Determining explicit meanings
Transcript
- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour...
- 00:05
Which word could fill in the blank so that the sentence below makes sense?
- 00:08
John's friends were surprised by how little his breakup with Lisa seemed to affect him:
- 00:13
Despite the tumultuous nature of their relationship, he appeared almost blank after the split.
- 00:23
And here are the potential answers...
Full Transcript
- 00:33
Yeah, so we're dealing with a relatively overstuffed sentence here.
- 00:36
But only one context clue truly matters: the fact that the breakup didn't affect John as
- 00:41
much as his friends probably worried it would. Since this sentence indicates that John didn't
- 00:47
spend his days spewing tears and making scenes in public places....
- 00:52
...we can break-up with most of these answers without too many tears of our own.
- 00:56
(A) doesn't work at all. If John didn't care about the break-up, he definitely wouldn't
- 00:59
be intense about it. (B) doesn't work either, because John wouldn't
- 01:03
be anxious about something he didn't care about.
- 01:06
"Burdensome" makes zero sense in this context, because it means something that's
- 01:10
heavy or worrisome in some way. "Attentive" means to pay special extra attention
- 01:17
to something, so it definitely doesn't work either.
- 01:19
Looks like "nonchalant" wins the day.
- 01:21
It totally makes sense, because the word means to be casual and uncaring about something.
- 01:30
So the answer is (C).
- 01:31
As in, "Could he care any less?"
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