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SAT Reading: Using the Context of President Obama's Speech to Define "Steeled" 7 Views
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We Americans endure crises and return stronger than ever. It didn't kill us so it made us stronger. Kelly Clarkson for President!
Transcript
- 00:02
alright people were still on the Obama inauguration speech 2013 and let's just
- 00:08
pop on to the next question all right so it's asking as it is using [text on screen]
- 00:11
the passage steeled 161 right there most closely means what okay well let's see
- 00:16
where is it all right this generation of Americans has been tested by crises that
- 00:18
steeled our resolve and proved our resilience aren't sealed it to suffer
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- 00:22
well let's see what's the right answer here yeah reinforced and that sounds
- 00:26
pretty good there the whole speech is about the strength of the good ol US of [Uncle Sam weightlifting]
- 00:30
A after enduring crises we came back stronger than ever
- 00:34
steeled in our ideals in fact this piece of figurative language is pretty [Uncle Sam pulling truck]
- 00:39
straightforward think of it this way when you add steel to something well you [text on screen]
- 00:42
make it stronger another word for having made something stronger is to yeah [man bicep curling a log]
- 00:47
having reinforced it that's how it works well Obama spends a lot of time
- 00:51
connecting our strengths today with the strength of those who came before us our
- 00:55
newest crises didn't create American strength so we can't say that our
- 00:59
resolve has recently been built so we get rid of a that's not like brand new [text on screen]
- 01:03
likewise forging C something also a means forming it for the first time the
- 01:09
struggles we've faced definitely didn't take away our steel or any of our [blacksmith doing his thing]
- 01:14
resolve so that's the answer it's D reinforced and just go enforce and then
- 01:20
do it again or week
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