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SAT Reading Section: Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 1
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- Literary Vocabulary / Determine meaning of words and phrases: Informational text
- Literary Vocabulary / Determine meaning of words and phrases: Informational Text
- Vocabulary / Determine meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words
- Vocabulary / Determine meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words
- Rhetoric / Analyzing word choice
Transcript
- 00:03
We might just have a problem that you'll understand... <<sing a la Lean on Me>>
- 00:07
Which words could fill in the blanks so that the sentence below makes sense?
- 00:10
Though he was often criticized for being resistant to other points of view, the blank appealed
- 00:15
to the fanatical audience with his blank refusal to compromise his ideals.
- 00:20
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:28
The sentence tells us that the guy it's talking about is resistant to other points
- 00:32
of view and refuses to compromise his ideals.
- 00:36
All of that is a fancy way of saying that this dude is gung-ho for one thing and one
- 00:40
thing only.
- 00:42
So whatever word fits in the first blank has got to describe this kind of totally obsessive
- 00:46
focused person. Let's start by seeing what words just don't
- 00:50
fit in the first blank at all.
- 00:52
A doesn't work because ingrate means someone who's ungrateful.
- 00:55
D doesn't really work either, because a heretic describes someone whose beliefs go
- 01:00
against the powers that be.
- 01:02
We can't eliminate (B), (C), or (E) yet, because the first words could all fit in the
- 01:06
first blank.
- 01:07
A zealot is a person who's a total fanatic about a religion or a cause.
- 01:11
A crusader can be used to describe someone who's super dedicated to a cause.
- 01:16
And a demagogue is a leader who gains power through appeals to the public's emotions.
- 01:21
All of these could work, so it looks like we'll have to move on to the second blank
- 01:24
and see what it can help us eliminate.
- 01:27
Obscure is used to describe something that's barely known or understood.
- 01:30
It wouldn't make sense to describe someone's refusal to compromise his ideals that way,
- 01:35
so we can get rid of (C).
- 01:37
"Obliterated refusal" doesn't make any sense, either, so we can obliterate E right now.
- 01:44
Alright in fact, we can go ahead and obliterate everything
- 01:46
but choice (B).
- 01:47
"Obdurate" means to be stubborn, and "zealot" means fanatic, so our answer is B.
- 01:52
As in, "Banana Republic?"
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