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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.


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all right continuing on SAT reading here in the fascinating world of volcanoes as

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you see line 15 the passage 15 line 15 right there fortnightly means what all [text on screen]

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right just go to line 15 here real quick we're gonna skim it if they're called

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495 coupling because five drive every two weeks well the correct answer here

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is the know fortnight isn't when you pull all the cushions off the couch to [volcanic landscape]

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build a fort and refuse to come out until the morning the definition is in [kid inside couch fort]

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the sentence prior to the appearance of the word every two weeks the Sun and

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Moon align so that's the definition of fortnightly it's every two weeks

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fortnightly it's actually an adverb apparently

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