Ah! Speeding Through SAT Completion is Still a Favorite!
Rocketcat Racecar (palindrome) strategy is at peak performance today!
First, you read the sentence filling in the shortest, best word to have the right connotation. Then, you use your two words to match against the pairs in the answers for two matching connotations.
Gwendolyn Brooks’ character Maud Martha appears ______ (calm?) but feels great rage; she _____(masks?) her emotions with a mask of compliance.
We went all the way to the semicolon before choosing ‘calm’ because we see this ‘Maude Martha’ ‘appearing’ (indicating what something seems but is not)—aha! ‘but feels great rage;
Okay,she looks like ______ but feels rage. We choose ‘calm’
Reading on…she ______ her emotions (we already know she covers up so I am thinking ‘masks’ )
Okay, that second word is going to be a coverup word.
Let’s try them: calm word first…cover-up word second
A. Responsive (calm?so-so but no)….echoes (no…an echo repeats)
B. Nonchalant (okay)….exposes (NO—opposite of a cover-up word)
C. Docile (yes…) camouflages (yes)—MARK THE ANSWER SHEET NOW, PLEASE. It is C.
Now ‘race over D&E just to make sure nothing is ‘better’ than this one.
D. Uncontrolled (no)…belies (unh-uh)
E. Invincible (NO)….catapults (NO!)
PACING: You want to get these but use the speed to move on to the ones that take longer.
IF YOU ARE FEELING TIME PINCH, GO ON TO THE NEXT QUESTION WHEN YOU FIND AND MARK THE ANSWER. Eliminate at least one of the other answers to make sure you are answering what is asked.
