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SAT Reading: Passage Comparison Drill 2, Problem 2
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- 00:03
This above all: to thine own Shmoop be true.
- 00:17
In line 11, "pander to" most nearly means... what?
- 00:27
Digging into the context of the first passage will help us figure out the meaning of "pander."
- 00:32
And we're not talking about "pander bears."
- 00:35
Passage 1 focuses on the way Zora did her own thing despite what anybody thought.
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- 00:40
So, we know that we're looking for a word that goes along with the idea that Hurston
- 00:45
wasn't afraid to disappoint other people's expectations.
- 00:49
This one might trick us if we weren't paying careful attention. The key is that we have
- 00:53
to take into account the word "not" in Line 11.
- 00:56
If Hurston tried NOT to ignore her critics, then that would mean she wrote the kind of
- 01:01
stuff they wanted her to write.
- 01:03
This is the opposite of the definition of "pander" that we're trying to find,
- 01:07
making choice (A)... NOT cool with us. The root word "critic" in "criticize"
- 01:13
reminds us that the word means to judge someone, or to point out his or her faults.
- 01:19
Zora didn't try NOT to criticize her critics, though. In fact, the quotes in the passage
- 01:25
show her directly criticizing them. "Humiliate" means to make a person feel
- 01:30
ashamed or foolish.
- 01:35
This one doesn't work either. We're looking for a word that gets across the idea that
- 01:39
Hurston didn't do what everybody thought she ought to do.
- 01:42
If you plug "mistake" into the sentence, it doesn't even make any sense.
- 01:47
Zora "tried not to mistake to the folks..."? Nah, this one's just wasting our time.
- 01:52
"Indulge" can mean to give in to the wishes of others.
- 01:58
Which is exactly what Zora Neale Hurston did NOT do. Looks like we've found our answer.
- 02:03
Now if only this pander bear would stop hugging us.
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