Explanation for Question 38 From the Reading Section on the 2018 March Sat
Hey guys. So question 38 asks us as you, 2 as in lion 35 reason, most nearly means blank. 3 So we're going to not look at our answer twice of this. We're just 4 going to go back to line 38, I'm sorry, 5 line 35, question 38. And we are going to fill in our own word 6 for reason here. So let's do that on 35 over 7 here, says that let's just read the sentence in full yet 8 the American citizens, citizen plumes himself upon the spirit, 9 even when he is sufficiently this passionate to perceive the ruin at works and 10 will often a deuce it in spite of his own reason as an instance 11 of the great sagacity and acuteness of the people and their superior shrewdness 12 and independence. So he's using it to say in spite of their 13 own reason. So in spite of American's own reason, 14 they're still doing this thing. 15 That's kind of negative. So I want to say reason here. 16 It kind of means something like, you know, 17 inside of American's own, you know, 18 you know, better thoughts or like, 19 you know, my own logic in spite of my own logic, 20 I'm still going to do this. 21 Um, and that seems to be what he's saying with this one. 22 So looking at our answer choices, um, 23 down here, it seems that in spite of our own defense 24 doesn't really make sense in spite of our own cause. 25 Um, in spite of like our, 26 in spite of our own cause that doesn't really work as well, 27 because more about like our internal logic and thoughts. 28 Um, in spite of our own explanation, 29 again, doesn't maybe could work that doesn't really work as well, 30 because it's more about like our logic. 31 And I would say that judgment seems to really fit in well, 32 because it's like, like against our best judgment against our best reason, 33 we're still doing this thing. That's kind of bad. 34 That's a common phrase you'll hear people say is, you know, despite, 35 despite my better judgment, I still did this. 36 That's what Dickins is saying here. When he uses the word.