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sequence of process

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fame=reputation

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turgid： swollen； bombastic in style 腫脹

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  Not too affirmative

  Science: Animal, DNA, Government testing, Human psychology, space travel

  Socialscience voting: President, famous person, weather article(category of topics), Internet

  Narrative(Anecdote) 敘事文 Dislogue short story or Exerpt, long passage

  短

  Never too concrete or proven  400-800

   

  100-200

  May never must only resent best ridiculous(slightly) will

  Suggestion or inference/ main idea

  Definitely –> extreme words softened or hypothetical

  解藥 anecdote is story

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• 1. strain(v.)：to impair, injure, or weaken (a muscle, tendon, etc.) by stretching or overexertion

Midterm exam

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main idea 原文1/5

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Tutami Learning:SAT Reading Sample

clapper

irrelevance

short sentence

short passage

long passage

(major types of categories)

miss conception

ab-: something negative

chronic 慢性的

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1.      incorporate： to form into a legal corporation

Ex： Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.

inefficient： not efficient; unable to effect or achieve the desired result with reasonable economy of means

Ex： But innovation is horribly wasteful and inefficient.

indistinct： not clearly marked or defined

Ex： Everyone would sound as distinctly indistinct as a television newscaster.

injustice： the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity

Ex： But there have always been people willing to stand up boldly and courageously against such injustice.

3. conflict： to fight or contend

Ex： The results are surprisingly pleasing, given the potential for conflict among so many kinds of plants.

condense： to make more dense or compact

Ex： To condense a longer story: one of those flashes apparently was the flash from a red-light camera.

conclude： to bring to an end

Ex： But it is time to conclude this introduction lest it anticipate and forestall the work, instead of merely preceding it.

conceal： withdraw or remove from observation

Ex： In response to the furor, artists began to avoid forbidden images or conceal them under dotting, stippling and cross-hatches.

4. magnanimous：  generous in forgiving an insult or injury

Ex： That includes a woman who can go from being amazingly petty to astonishingly magnanimous.

magniloquent： speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style

Ex： By the time they got near to Pickwance, he himself had waxed almost magniloquent on the cultivation of turnips.

magnify： to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does

Ex： Down the road, this crisis will magnify as doctors leave this demanding field or retire.

magnificent： making a splendid appearance or show

Ex： The result is magnificent from start to finish.

5. acidulous： slightly sour

Ex： Spacey, after a long career of playing acidulous bad guys, gives a performance of surprising gentleness.

acrid： sharp or biting to the taste or smell

Ex： The vans still smoldered and set an acrid tang in the air which stung bitter in the back of the throat.

acrimonious： caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior

Ex： They should recognize that effective representation does not require antagonistic or acrimonious behavior.

acerbity： sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste

Ex： The benevolence and public spirit of that long life had only been equalled by its acerbity.

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博雅宏達。/博學而篤志，切問而近思。