The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, called the Mexico-based Sinaloa cartel “the largest, most violent, and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world” in a statement accompanying the sweeping indictments covering cartel bosses, enforcers and suppliers such as Rubio and Wu. “We are the biggest in Mexico so we can purchase a lot,” the indictment quotes Rubio telling Wu Yonghao, a sales representative for the chemical supplier Wuhan Shuokang Biological Technology Co Ltd, in an encrypted message before her arrest. Now, let’s actually take the idea of similar sentences and let’s try them on another sentence.According to the arresting agency and a federal indictment released on 14 April, for almost 10 years Rubio arranged illegal imports of controlled drug-making substances, sometimes hiding them in food containers and leveraging corruption to deliver the chemicals to the cartel. So again, we identified the type of sentence, came up with our words, looked for the synonyms. In this case, maybe it would have been formidable and a synonym for formidable. Even if your word is the perfect word, it’s warlike, it works so perfectly, but then it’s not a synonym or doesn’t have a synonym amongst the answer choices. But again, the key is you need similar words. And warlike and martial are the answers, and formidable is out. However, what do we have down here? Aha! We have warlike, which, of course, is a much better word as well. Then that would be the answer, even if your own word is warlike. So let’s say we go through here and there is not a synonym for martial or warlike, but there is a synonym for formidable. So we could leave that in the batch sure, but again, are we looking for a synonym? Or can we find a synonym for formidable? That’s really what sentence equivalence is about. I mean, they’re training boys as young as 12. And if sounds like X is definitely more formidable. So that could definitely work here.Īgain, it’s not a synonym for spartan. So, the word martial means having to do with war, relating to war. Martial arts is, well, when you do karate, you are engaging battle. So you can think of martial arts, such as karate. So if we still don’t see a word like austere down here, then spartan can’t be the answer. Let’s say that you don’t want to spend too much time just debating one word because ultimately, the answers have to be synonyms. And to be austere or spartan doesn’t quite hit on it, but let’s leave it. However, it could be the answer, but I doubt it because again we want something that means getting ready for battle. So spartan, again meaning austere, is not a synonym for warlike. That doesn’t mean necessarily that they were warlike. So Spartans would train in the snow wearing sandals. However, spartan means austere.ĭenying yourself luxuries. They were definitely more like, So you may be tempted to choose this. Spartan, you may have seen a movie called “300” that had the Spartans in it. Warlike, warhappy, whatever you want to put there. Well, they were all about war, and this one of the two, the ladder, acts even more warlike. Well, the clue is they often trained boys as young as 12 for battle. We want to look for the clues and come up with our own words. This is a shifting sentence, a non-shifting sentence, and here we’re simply taking the blank, and we’re defining the blank with what comes after the comma. We want to identify the type of sentence. “The two ancient kingdoms of”, whatever, z and x, don’t need to read them out, “the latter was the more, often treating boys as young as twelve for battle”. So let’s take a look, and I’m gonna show you how synonyms, or very similar words, work in a sentence. But if the words generally mean the same thing, and especially in the sentence here, they are doing the same thing that is, they are creating a sentence that doesn’t change what’s happening here. However, some people oftentimes argue what it means to be synonyms that is, words are always a little bit different so they’re not exactly synonyms all the time that is, there are very few perfect synonyms.īut if words are generally thrown in the same thesaurus category together and even this is a little bit of an ambiguous, nebulous territory here with the sources, since the sources are very liberal about dumping words into the same bunch. Well, it means that the two answer choices here are going to be very similar words. What does that mean? We create synonymous sentences. We’re going to focus here on the idea of similar sentences, or as ETS calls them, synonymous sentences. In this video, we are going to look at a sentence equivalence question, and we’re going to focus our sentence equivalence questions.
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