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Here's your short passage shmoop du jour...

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Press pause and read to your heart's content...

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The word "intrepid" in line 6 most nearly means...what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Even if we've only ever heard "intrepid" followed

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by "reporter"...

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...we're looking at you, Lois Lane...

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...we can still eliminate some of our answer choices.

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The explorers aren't neglecting anything; if they were, they'd be pretty unsuccessful explorers...

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Therefore we can cross off (D). The explorers aren't measuring the depth

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of the ocean in an irrational way, and they aren't being particularly guarded either...

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So (E) is off the list.

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They're also not being manipulative...

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Making (C) a no-go. Since they're doing something that no one's

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done before... in a way that's not too extreme...

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(B) is the correct answer.

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We should all be grateful that our early explorers were intrepid and not... totally insane.

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