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Thoreau was all about simplicity; anything that took away from his vision was the enemy. Mechanical aids were one of them. Guess he had to train a...
Thoreau wants our lives to be simplified. He claims that we gain less from life when we over-complicate things.
How does Thoreau feel about commerce? He writes, "We don't ride upon the railroad; it rides upon us." He wants and end to the war fighting for the...
SAT Reading 4.9 Sentence Completion 165 Views
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SAT Reading Sentence Completion Drill 4, Problem 9
Transcript
- 00:03
You look like you could use another shmoopy question...
- 00:07
Which word could fill in the blank so that the sentence below makes sense?
- 00:11
Participants in the food drive were dismayed by the blank of contributions this year and
- 00:14
struggled to compensate the needy with funds.
- 00:18
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:25
The participants in the food drive had to kick in some cold hard cash to make up for
- 00:29
the fact they didn't get many donations.
- 00:31
Man, where's the love in their community?
- 00:35
Anyway, we know we're looking for an answer choice that describes this downer of a shortage.
- 00:40
We can nix "siege" easily, since it doesn't have anything to do with a shortage at all...
- 00:45
...instead referring to an attack that cuts off access to supplies.
- 00:49
Choices (B), (C), and (D) are all the opposite of what we're looking for.
- 00:53
"Profusion" means a large quantity...
- 00:56
..."deluge" means a downpour or flood...
- 00:58
...and "barrage" means a military bombardment... or something that feels like one.
- 01:03
If any of these things had happened, there would've been plenty of food.
- 01:07
"Dearth" describes when there's a scarcity or shortage of something, so it looks like
- 01:12
(A) is the one and only answer.
- 01:14
Here's hoping there's no dearth of delicious old canned foods in our future.
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