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SSAT Upper Level Reading Flashcards: Vocabulary In Context

Study Vocabulary In Context in SSAT Upper Level Reading with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

Which option best defines "qualify" in: "I qualify my praise because the plan has risks"?

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ANSWER

Limit; modify; add conditions to. Contextually, 'qualify' means to limit or add caveats, as praise is tempered by noted risks.

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SSAT Upper Level Reading: Vocabulary in Context

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This deck focuses on Vocabulary In Context, giving you a quick way to review the definitions, rules, and examples that matter most for SSAT Upper Level Reading.

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Read the passage and answer the question. In the early days of space exploration, engineers face a problem that sounds simple until it is not: how do you keep a spacecraft oriented correctly when there is no air to push against? On Earth, a plane can tilt its wings and use the atmosphere to turn. In orbit, there is no such helpful resistance. The solution involves reaction wheels—spinning disks inside the spacecraft. When a wheel speeds up or slows down, the spacecraft rotates in the opposite direction, obeying the same physics that makes a figure skater spin faster by pulling in her arms. The idea is elegant because it uses internal motion to control external orientation. But elegance does not eliminate complications. Over time, small forces—gravity from nearby bodies, pressure from sunlight, even tiny leaks—cause the reaction wheels to store too much momentum. When that happens, the wheels can no longer correct the spacecraft's attitude effectively; they are saturated. Engineers must then "dump" the extra momentum using thrusters, firing brief bursts to reset the system. This process is incremental. It does not happen in one dramatic correction, but through many small adjustments: a short spin here, a tiny burst there, repeated until the spacecraft is steady again. The public may imagine spaceflight as a series of heroic leaps, yet much of it is quiet maintenance performed step by careful step. What does the word incremental mean as used in the passage?​
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