[Video] Q24: Maybe wary or maybe weary or may be wary or may be weary

Explanation for Question 24 From the Writing Section on the 2018 March Sat

How do you guys, so question 24 is going to be dealing with homophones. 2 And those are words that sound the same, have different meanings. 3 Um, they're kind of fun questions like these, 4 like can be kind of annoying, but I don't know. I kind of liked 5 him and I kinda liked the word homophobic. It sounds school health. 6 So, um, this question reads though, 7 hiring an IO psychologist as an expensive is an expense. 8 A company may be wary of taking on it pays off. 9 Okay. So what we're dealing with here is they're trying to say that I'm 10 hiring one of these people is something that a company might be nervous 11 about doing. They may be nervous about hiring this person because of 12 the cost. And what we're trying to say here is that they may 13 be wary as in aware and, 14 you know, thinking about, um, 15 as opposed to our other answer choices, 16 which are saying weary, which, 17 um, or I guess maybe, 18 maybe it's also pronounced, wary. 19 I always say weary. And then I say, where are you for the other 20 ones? Um, but since there are homophones, 21 technically homophones are supposed to pronounce the exact same way. 22 Otherwise they look really similar and that's how they're trying to trick you. 23 Whereas weary is something that just means like tired or sleepy. 24 Um, um, and the other thing is that we're dealing with many 25 B versus maybe so. 26 It's like, if I were saying, I may be there tomorrow as in, 27 I might be there tomorrow versus me saying, 28 I don't know...