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SAT Reading Section: Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 1
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SAT Reading Section: Sentence Completion Drill 3, Problem 9
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- 00:03
Gettin' Shmoopy with it... Which words could fill in the blanks so that
- 00:06
the sentence below makes sense?
- 00:08
Forced to blank her parents' wishes, Cecily stayed home from the party and blank on the
- 00:12
nature of unfairness with a deep sense of melancholy.
- 00:16
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:29
First things first: we can eliminate (B) right away, because Cecily probably wouldn't have
- 00:33
been forced to ignore what her parents wanted.
- 00:36
That would be a pretty weird parenting dynamic. The rest of the first blank choices seem reasonably
- 00:42
plausible, so we'll see how the second blank can help us.
- 00:46
The word that fits here should describe the way Cecily thought about unfairness.
- 00:50
"Eviscerate" doesn't make any sense at all, because it means to gut or disembowel.
- 00:55
Wow, she would have to really hate her parents' wishes for that one to work.
- 01:00
"Degrade" means to treat with disrespect, which doesn't fit, and "exalt" means to
- 01:06
praise, which doesn't jibe with Cecily's melancholy mood.
- 01:12
So both (C) and (E) are off the table. "Ruminate" means to think about something
- 01:16
deeply and "acquiesce" means to give in, so both blanks work.
- 01:22
The answer is (D). D for "Don't even think about it, Cecily."
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