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SAT Reading: Defining the Word "Exacerbate" in Context 2 Views
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This SAT Reading video on wildlife conservation has you looking into the word "exacerbate".
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- 00:02
all right just a couple of more hang in there as used in line 75 exacerbate most
- 00:09
nearly means what so line 75 and we know that exacerbate [text on screen]
- 00:16
usually means to make something worse right okay so we're going down here line
- 00:19
75 the evidence suggests it is likely that many species avoid areas of high
- 00:24
background noise which could exacerbate the problem of habitat fragmentation and
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- 00:29
connectivity it's answer a according to the passage [woman bites pencil]
- 00:32
to problems facing the Sonoran pronghorn or habitat fragmentation and a lack of
- 00:36
connectivity well the author's explained that quiet
- 00:39
spaces within a developed field may be too small and too far apart to support
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species that are sensitive to noise and loud areas may form barriers to
- 00:46
migration and dispersal well guess what this footprint means the problem of
- 00:50
habitat fragmentation is worsened by creating more obstacles so that's it [writing on blackboard]
- 00:56
it's a
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