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If anyone is struggling with strengthen/weaken questions ( I, too, did up until recently), it really helps me to focus on the fact that the answer choices are supposed to be added premises for strengthen, and for weaken, it's like being in a debate with someone. So for strengthen, I read the stimulus, making sure to read the conclusion last, and then say "And this is true/likely true because [AC candidate]", which saying out loud will help you ID that it really is strengthening the argument (or not if wrong choice). For weaken, same thing except I say, "But this likely isn't true considering that [AC candidate]". Hope that helps!

Yeah I would say so! 100% of the time, if you know that one (or both of course, but minimally just one) speaker doesn't talk at all about (explicitly or implicitly) what that AC says, then it is wrong. Or more simply, if one speaker falls in the middle spectrum of mutually consistent, could be/could not be true, then it's wrong.

Hi! According to The Loophole by Ellen Cassidy, these are some synonyms for "most": usually, probably, mostly, more often than not. I've heard advice for when you're just starting out to translate these words to "51% or more" so you can feel the words out and gain better understanding of the sentence.

With regard to your confusion with "usually" and not seeing how it means most, I think it helps that I think of it like: if something is usually happening, it's probably happening (knowing probability like we do at post-college education levels). And if something is probable, it's more often than not. What is more often than not in percentages? Bare minimum definition is greater than half the time, 51% or more of the time. And right there you just used a whole bunch of synonyms in your reasoning.