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Difficult vocabulary in text completions

Difficult vocabulary in text completions

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Difficult vocabulary in text completions

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- [Voiceover] Tough vocabulary can seem like an insurmountable challenge in certain text completions. Sometimes these questions really do come down to whether or not you can define the answer choices. But sometimes there are things you can do even if you don't know certain words. So, in this video, I'll discuss some ways to handle difficult vocabulary in text completions. So, the first thing I want you to determine when faced with tough vocabulary is whether you can work with the question or not. So, let's look at this question and think about what our options are. So, if we're looking at this, and we look at the blanks that's probably our first clue is to whether we can work with it. Because like for blank one you see that we've got two words and let's say for some reason you don't know tacit. And then in blank two, let's say you don't know spurious, but you do know multifaceted and you do know finished. Well, that's probably a good sign that you can work with the question. Even if…

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