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SAT Reading Section: Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 1
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SAT Reading: Sentence Completion Drill 2, Problem 8
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- 00:03
It was a dark and Shmoopy night...
- 00:06
Which word could fill in the blank so that
- 00:07
the sentence below makes sense?
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The wind from the landfill was particularly strong that morning, causing drivers on the
- 00:13
freeway to roll up their windows to avoid the blank odor.
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- 00:17
Here are the potential answers.
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If drivers are rolling up their windows to avoid it, this "odor" must be straight
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nasty.
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To solve this one, we're just going to cruise down the list to find a word that describes
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something that seriously stinks. We can eliminate (E) right away, since "fragrant"
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refers to pleasant smells.
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(C) is also out because "olfactory" means something that has to do with the sense of
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smell in general.
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(D) and (A) are both wrong because "fervent" has nothing to do with smell, and there's
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nothing "ambiguous" about the scent of a landfill.
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"Putrid" describes the scent of something that's rotting, so it fits the stinky bill.
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Therefore the answer is (B). B for "Better run the other way."
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