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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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all right just a couple of more hang in there as used in line 75 exacerbate most

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nearly means what so line 75 and we know that exacerbate [text on screen]

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usually means to make something worse right okay so we're going down here line

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75 the evidence suggests it is likely that many species avoid areas of high

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background noise which could exacerbate the problem of habitat fragmentation and

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connectivity it's answer a according to the passage [woman bites pencil]

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to problems facing the Sonoran pronghorn or habitat fragmentation and a lack of

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connectivity well the author's explained that quiet

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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

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migration and dispersal well guess what this footprint means the problem of

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habitat fragmentation is worsened by creating more obstacles so that's it [writing on blackboard]

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it's a

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