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ACT Reading: Humanities Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the main purpose of this passage?
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SAT Reading 1.5 Long Passages 204 Views
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SAT Reading Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 5
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- 00:03
Another shmoop du jour for you... Need to take another look at the passage?
- 00:07
No worries; just hit pause and giver 'er a skim...
- 00:37
In line 47, "despondency" most nearly means...what?
- 00:41
Here are the potential answers...
- 00:48
From the context of the passage... not to mention the magic conjunction "and"...
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- 00:53
...we know that "despondency" relates to suicide somehow.
- 00:56
Sounds like this one is bound to be an upper... The root word "anonymous" in "anonymity"
- 01:02
reminds us that the word relates to being unknown.
- 01:06
The passage makes it clear that the famous Kurt Cobain had the opposite problem, so (E)
- 01:10
is off our list.
- 01:12
"Friendliness" is nice and all...
- 01:14
But it doesn't really equate with suicide, therefore (D) is wrong as well.
- 01:19
Sometimes peoples considering suicide can be really quiet, and sometimes they can be
- 01:23
really intense... But (C), "hopelessness," tends be universally
- 01:27
tied with suicidal thoughts, making it the best answer.
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