Today’s official SAT question of the day is a sentence completion about a jellyfish.  Per the sentence, the jellyfish swims in a certain kind of drift, but its tentacles contain poison.  So, what kind of drift do we have here?

Poison is not a great thing to encounter while swimming – it’s dangerous (deleterious for those of you who want to practice your top 100 vocab words).  So, the jellyfish’s drift is seemingly … something … but this is one dangerous aquatic creature.  The but is a hint that we need the opposite of poisonous to fill in our blank.  Some good predictions?  Benign, gentle, harmless.

Wait, one of those is actually an answer choice!  So, there yo go.  This question is rated easy by the test maker, so try not to spend a lot of time eliminating wrong answer choices if you spot one that matches the word you came up with right away.  Remember, too, that the sentence completions are arranged from easy to hard in each section, so if you’re on one of the first 2-3 questions just assume it’s easy and go as quickly as you can without sacrificing accuracy.