<p>are there any more answers for SC??
i am very weak at vocab and so nervous about it.</p>
<p>hold is grap, not maintain… right??</p>
<p>im hopeless</p>
<p>^
I put maintain 
Were you guys ****ed at the literary devices. They put like ten questions on it! The last question for the Louisiana was it repitition because he kept saying Louisiana but now I think about it, it was only in the first sentence and they were asking paragraph. I actually think it might be allusion though? What about personification? Metaphor? Also would he not understand the psychology of the Russian characters? I realized my answers don’t match CCers, I should have skipped : (</p>
<p>actually for that question repetition is correct because in the last paragraph all the three sentences started with “I wanted to”. It has nothing to do with the repetition of the word Louisiana</p>
<p>I put maintain and repetition.</p>
<p>s.c
1.compunction
2.plummeted… infinitesimal
3.platitudinous…permissible
4.particular…universal
5.essence, incarnation
6.compunction
7.eroded
8.superfluous
9.defile
10. cognitive
11. axiom
12. alliance</p>
<p>archeology passage:
1.show the author’s characteristic
2.provocative statement
3.lacks academic whatever in her books
4.to prove a point of view
5.cavalier
6.flippant
7.contentious
8. representation of something…
9. metaphor</p>
<p>Chemistry, Black louisiana writer
- that a friendship can offer much if friends are from different backgrounds
- idealized
- bookish/non practical</p>
<ol>
<li>insincere**</li>
<li>details</li>
<li>natural characteristics</li>
<li>trace the path of literary persuit…sth like that</li>
<li>repetition</li>
</ol>
<p>celebrity passage
- dismay
- shamelessly conceited***
- that modern day america is very much influenced by celebrities
- that it might be important in some people’s career
- mininterpretation*** (this mite b acquiesce something)
- reemphasize a point *** (this mite b critique a trend)
- thoughtful
- Conspicuous
- superficiality of appearance
- grasp </p>
<p>short passage
- Sardonic
- kinship***</p>
<p>waht was the alliance sentence completion for?</p>
<p>Could someone explain why serious = thoughtful and not humorless in the “celebrity” passage? My answer was “humorless” because the previous sentence was talking about entertainment and I figured the opposite of that would be “humorless”, which is why artists etc should be worried.</p>
<p>Thoughtful makes sense because it implies intelligent criteria.</p>
<p>Maintain also has much more of a majority than grasp.</p>
<p>^^^ 10 char</p>
<p>Oh okay D: The celebrity passage was quite killer sigh. I hope I get a reasonable score for CR. ><</p>
<p>I’m back from sleeping ten hours…</p>
<p>Confirmed answers
Let’s keep this updated:</p>
<p>flippant;
dismay;
platitudinous…permissible
cavalier or humble
sardonic
mildly ridiculous? or shamelessly conceited
particular…universal…
photographer one: flustered
russian one: details;
characterize
contentious
thoughtful
plummet…infinitesimal
idealized?
compunction
bookish
friendship has much to offer
natural characteristics
critique a trend
conspicuous
inflated?
maintain
alliance
provocative
erode?
repetition?
superficial appearance
axiom
cognitive
essence…incarnation
superfluous
kinship</p>
<p>what was the dismay and alliance questions again?</p>
<p>I said grasp…</p>
<p>the alliance one was a sentence completion, no? i’m not sure.</p>
<h2>^Alliance was sc and very easy.</h2>
<p>I only have -2 so far as long as I can pull shamelessly conceited and maintain into the correct column. </p>
<p>I am going to restart some dialogue on the shamelessly conceited question.</p>
<p>Most of us can agree that he was being shameless. He was brazen about his motives and didn’t show any qualms.</p>
<p>Conceited is more nuanced though.</p>
<p>This definition of conceited “having an excessively favorable opinion of one’s abilities, appearance, etc” tends to favor this answer due to the fact he described the press conferences as being pretty vain.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, shamelessly vain is pretty strong diction. Usually the SAT leans toward moderate descriptions.</p>
<p>I put “maintain”, “mildly ridiculous” and “cavalier”. -3 and 1 omit so far… (if humorless is wrong)</p>
<p>do u remember the alliance question though, or the general idea?</p>
<p>careyprice: It was something about two organisations sharing resources, so alliance made the most sense I think.</p>
<p>yeah, I put alliance, pretty sure it was right.</p>
<p>oh yeah forsure i remember that
any ideas for a reading curve so far…</p>