Answer Choices
apprehending
capturing
arresting
seizing
Explanation for Question 21 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat
Hey guys. So question 21 is a kind of rare sat to kind of 2 question called an idiom question. And idioms are just the commonly used words or 3 phrases that come. When you say things a certain way, 4 this is the only type of sat questions we're going to be figuring out 5 what sounds right. And here we need to figure out what actually sounds right 6 when we're talking about something, the heat required to compress the air, 7 sort of saying, researchers have developed methods of CAS that research much better efficiency 8 levels by blinking the heat required to compress the air and we're using it 9 to heat the decompressing air. So we have to think of like, 10 what would I say, do I want to say apprehending the heat? 11 Like if I'm saying, if I'm in like a house and we're trying to 12 like, you know, start a fire and get that heat in here and don't 13 let it escape. 14 We want to say work or apprehending that heat. 15 We're capturing the heat in here. We're arresting the heat or we're seizing the 16 heat. Well, the most commonly said one is capturing the heat. 17 All these all sound like they mean the same thing. 18 No one ever says arresting the heat or seizing the heat. 19 Those two just sound peculiar. It's the same thing with apprehending while they all 20 are synonymous with capturing, capturing is the only way we use it in regards 21 to the word heat when it comes to a sentence like this. 22 So if I'm capturing the heat, um, 23 to require to do this, um, 24 that's the way that people would say it in the normal course of a 25 sentence. So with questions like these with they're all synonymous, 26 we need to just think, okay, what do people commonly use and what sounds 27 right? And so the only kind of sit question where you have to think 28 what sounds.