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ASVAB Word Knowledge 5.4 Vocab List. The word sordid most nearly means what?
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by...
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[ whispers ] secrets.
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That's all.
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[ normal voice ] Check out the following sentence.
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Richard was dismissed from the board when his sordid affairs came to light.
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The word sordid most nearly means what?
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Spiteful, immoral, musty, secretive... Yeah, hmm...
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All right, well, Richard must have been up to somethin',
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because the board was having none of it.
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Let's try to figure out what sordid actually means.
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A - spiteful means malicious.
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Richard was probably spiteful, or full of spite,
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after being dismissed, but that doesn't really describe
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his affairs. C - musty means smelling of mold.
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The board itself was probably made up of, uh,
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creaky old aristocrats. They might be musty, moldy,
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but that's also not a description of someone's affairs.
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[ sneeze ] And D - secretive implies something done in, well, secret.
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Affairs are usually done in secret, but it's not
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part of the definition of sordid.
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Sordid means something vile or immoral,
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the sort of thing even the board won't put up with.
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That's why Rick got the boot. So B's the correct answer.
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Richard will probably find another job.
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Now we spoke with the board and, well, we've been sworn to secrecy.
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[ whispers ] Secrets.
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