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SAT Reading: Defining the Word "Disparate" in Context 4 Views
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TulipMania is not a wrestling octagon. The emotional connection with greed behind TulipMania drove more than intrinsic values attibuted to tulips. Tulips of the era were the most expensive collectibles in history.
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- 00:03
all right Shmoopers have we moved on from tulipmania at least a little bit here
- 00:08
hopefully okay so let's go to the questions use a passage of disparate [text on screen]
- 00:11
spawn 158 they're mostly needs what so let's go zoom back to line 58
- 00:16
all right market a perpetual we have and flowed around such disparate stuff as
- 00:19
people cards all those boxes in action figures okay so what's the right answer
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- 00:22
well let's see what do baseball cards old lunch boxes and action figures have
- 00:28
in common nothing or rather they're for the people who clearly need to get [action figures]
- 00:32
another hobby well they have nothing in common except being awesome yeah no we
- 00:36
love all that crap all that fine collectible stuff it's not one of the [Darth Vadar action figure]
- 00:41
answer choices though the clue that disparate means dissimilar is held in [text on screen]
- 00:46
the previous line there where we're told that all kinds of items have become
- 00:50
collectible the paragraph does say that the collectibles in question have little
- 00:55
inherent value but we're told later on that the prices of some of these things
- 00:58
are high so inexpensive a is a bad choice because a contradicts central
- 01:02
idea of the text are these items ridiculous B or trivial D well that's a
- 01:07
judgment call but there's nothing in the text to suggest that they are you got to
- 01:11
go with the text here not your personal biases lunch boxes are at least useful [trash can]
- 01:15
sort of via we had a Charlie Brown one with a thermos in it the fact that ours [picture of a lunchbox]
- 01:19
now has Wonder Woman on it it's a bonus though we swear it makes our peanut [wonder woman lunchbox]
- 01:24
butter and jellies taste more heroic we like that this seafood yet though [sandwich on a plate]
- 01:29
the restroom
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