[Video] Q10: Commemorates or memorizes or magnifies or fossilizes

Explanation for Question 10 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So question 10 is dealing with the word commemorates and trying to 2 see is this the proper vocab word to use in this scenario? 3 Now, what this is telling us here is that there's a national park service 4 plaque at this point where these explorers went, 5 that is doing something for the men's contributions and shaping the capital. 6 We believe that it's respecting their contributions. 7 You know, it's giving credence to them. Um, 8 you know, it's, it's upholding what they did so people nowadays can remember it. 9 So, um, let's look at our options and see which one of those fits 10 best. It seems like commemorates option a no change to commemorate something is to 11 be like, you know, we remember it and we respect it, 12 like commemorating fallen soldiers in world war II. 13 For example, people who died for the country, 14 these people are commemorated by this plaque. 15 And that's what commemorate means. Memorizes us. 16 Like if I just start trying to memorize a bunch of words or something, 17 that's not what it is magnifies. Doesn't really work as well, 18 because, you know, magnifies what you like zoom in on something and make it 19 clear. That's not what it's doing. It's just trying to remember these people. 20 And fossilizes is just a worst usage of commemorates. 21 Fossilized is more like when something's, you know, you know, 22 old and like it's preserved because of like an accidental process of fossilization. 23 Um, that's not really what it's saying. It's saying this plaque has to remember 24 these people sacrifice and what they did. 25 So commemorate is going to work best for.