<p>honestly… I don’t think “construction builders wearing helmets” is humorous…</p>
<p>Oh, I am a senior as well. Yay for procrastination and pushing SATs off until the last minute! 
For the curious/sincere/humorous question I think I said in another thread that I put humorous but now I remember changing my answer to sincere. Yay? 
I hate tone questions, they just feel so subjective.</p>
<p>i think you’re right classiclays
that’s exactly why i chose competitive over any of the other choices</p>
<p>For construction workers, I think it was humorous, because the author was making a joke in order to make the reader understand the turbulent nature of Earths’ processes.</p>
<p>I put humorous… The overall tone was breezy and the statement was sort of funny (random). </p>
<p>Did anyone get histrionic, mercurial, unanticipated…placating,</p>
<p>didn’t get histrionic although i remember it being an option
i did get unanticipated … placating for the disgruntled worker</p>
<p>I remember histrionic was one of the choices but I didn’t pick it. I think I saw mercurial but I didn’t pick it either. I got unanticipated…placating.</p>
<p>I put humorous…and competitive.
and I got unanticipated…placating.</p>
<p>In the context of the sentence, and even that paragraph as a whole it talked about the provocative ads. Bold made the most sense considering the word tough, bold because the bolder and more attacking the ads were the more the voters were intrigued</p>
<p>I also did not get histrionic but got the placating answer for the angry employer question.</p>
<p>The mercurial question was about the guy who has to constantly adapt cause of changing times.</p>
<p>Also, I believe that the one about the penguins was atavistic/atavism (I forgot what tense it was) because the word “atavistic”, as quoted from google, means something along the lines of relating to ancestors, and therefore, if only 100 penguins had gone off the island, the rest of the penguins will be following the way of their ancestors.</p>
<p>Was the European/Native American records question “discrepancy…exhaustive”?</p>
<p>I found it interesting that the words histrionic and verve each appeared twice on the test (the former as two separate answer options, the latter one being both an option and part of the tectonics passage). I also remember urbane being on the October test. :0</p>
<p>I guess the ads could be bold but I think competitive was the better fit. The whole jist of the passage was based on competition between the politicians.</p>
<p>@sour do you remember the other choices?</p>
<p>@curry it was atavism but using your definition, it’s the wrong answer. The rest of the penguins DIDN’T follow.</p>
<p>I don’t remember the histrionic question exactly but i swear the definition fit the question… Same with mercurial (adaptive people)</p>
<p>i don’t get it what does atavism and fanaticism mean?
even after looking it up, i still don’t understand their definitions</p>
<p>Competition which was bold lol because the paragraph pertained to negativeeeeee ads meaning they had to be ‘bold’ in a way, otherwise if you had a paragraph about positive ad campaigning those would be “competitive” too, bold fit best in my opinion competitive being too broad</p>
<p>yea smooch, it’s confusing. Each word has like 4 definitions and can be manipulated in many ways which makes it even harder.</p>
<p>It’s most likely pluralism or fanaticism.
Pluralism is: A form of society in which minority groups maintain their independent cultural traditions. or A condition or system in which two or more states, etc., coexist.</p>
<p>Fanaticism is: related to devotion/ being a fanatic for something</p>
<p>It could go either way.</p>
<p>@Classic Lays: Sorry about that, I read over my explanation and realized that it was quite unclear. I meant to say that the penguins ancestors’ had stayed on the island and that most of the penguins were also staying on the island, thus making them atavistic.</p>