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SAT Reading: Defining "Swell" in the Context of Twain's Essay 2 Views
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Swell - a term last found in 40s yearbooks when you didn't know what else to say...or was it? Find out in this SAT Reading video.
Transcript
- 00:03
all right you poor Shmoopers having to study for the SAT exam art we're gonna
- 00:07
just keep going with the pain because a band-aid that gets ripped off quickly [bandaid getting ripped off arm]
- 00:10
hurts last all right here we go as you say like 25 20 SEC's well let's get wet
- 00:14
so we're going here 25 and we're looking for swell here we are never his book was [text on screen]
- 00:20
laid off he would come home and swell around the town in his last and Reese's
Full Transcript
- 00:22
clothes I don't get open everybody was also just easing me talk as if he was in
- 00:27
it all right what's the correct answer it's uh you know swell is like you're
- 00:33
thinking you're swelling up huffing up like that inflammation all right yes [man's lips swelling]
- 00:38
anyway yeah it's correct answer' swagger right there the word swell generally [man dancing]
- 00:43
does mean to puff up with inflammation so context is key and figuring out how [text on screen]
- 00:48
the word is used here this words home sentence is all about how the boy wants
- 00:52
people to know he has a job as a steamboatman
- 00:55
and he walks around all day in dirty book clothes to show off his enviable
- 00:59
position well that doesn't sound like inflammation it's more like this river
- 01:03
bro has a swagger in his step yeah so this boy isn't trying to hide so get rid
- 01:09
of that one there he wants everyone to see him that also means he's not gonna
- 01:12
lurk around cuz that'd be kind of like hiding in fact he's proud of those
- 01:16
greasy black clothes and what they represent sort of like varsity football [man's greasy clothes]
- 01:20
players wearing their jerseys around class in high school to show how cool
- 01:24
they are yeah you know Bob we're looking at you he may be coming off as cool and
- 01:28
collected but intentionally parading around the town takes energy and effort [greasy man walks downtown]
- 01:32
and well that's not the best way to relax don't do it yeah all right moving
- 01:37
on that's it
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