Explanation for Question 13 From the Reading Section on the 2019 April Sat
And number 13, we want to know what the word illusion most nearly means 2 in line nine. So without looking at any of the choices, 3 I'm going to go right to the line nine and find it here it 4 is illusion. So now let's read around it. 5 Psychological scientists have a name for this easy, 6 automatic, simplistic thinking. The illusion of explanatory depth. 7 We strongly believe that we understand complex matters. 8 When in fact we are clueless and these false and extreme beliefs shape our 9 preferences, judgements and actions, 10 including our boats. So if I were to replace the word illusion with 11 something, I would probably put misunderstanding. 12 So that's what you need to do for some of these, for the questions 13 with vocab, try to come up with your own synonym without looking at the 14 answers. So you don't become biased by any of them. 15 So now our word was misunderstanding. 16 Let's see if we can find a word similar to misunderstanding. 17 We have misconception dream charade and Phantom, 18 and I think misconception is the closest to misunderstanding. 19 So our answer is a.