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SAT Reading: Using Context Clues in a Scientific Passage to Define "Fortnight" 5 Views
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Want to know what fortnight means? Spoiler alert: no, it isn't when you build a fort in your living room out of cushions.
Transcript
- 00:02
all right continuing on SAT reading here in the fascinating world of volcanoes as
- 00:09
you see line 15 the passage 15 line 15 right there fortnightly means what all [text on screen]
- 00:13
right just go to line 15 here real quick we're gonna skim it if they're called
- 00:17
495 coupling because five drive every two weeks well the correct answer here
- 00:21
is the know fortnight isn't when you pull all the cushions off the couch to [volcanic landscape]
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- 00:26
build a fort and refuse to come out until the morning the definition is in [kid inside couch fort]
- 00:29
the sentence prior to the appearance of the word every two weeks the Sun and
- 00:34
Moon align so that's the definition of fortnightly it's every two weeks
- 00:38
fortnightly it's actually an adverb apparently
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