Explanation for Question 43 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 43 says as used in line 12 forms, 2 most nearly means. Well, so let's look back in the passage here at the 3 sentence that they're referencing and see if we can replace this word forms with 4 something from our own vocabulary, and then see if we can match an answer 5 choice to that. So the sentence that they're referencing says researchers at the department 6 of energy's Oak Ridge national laboratory, 7 or O R N L have made a better thermo-plastic by replacing styrene 8 with lignin, a brittle rigid polymer that with cellulose forms, 9 the Woody cells, cell walls of plants. 10 So just a reminder, the word that we're looking at here is formed. 11 And so when I first read this, I replace in my mind the word 12 forms with makes up. So in 13 this case, it would say researchers at the department of energy's Oak Ridge national 14 laboratory ORNL have made a better thermo-plastic by replacing styrene with 15 lignan a brittle rigid polymer that with cellulose makes up the Woody cell walls 16 of plants. So we can see reading that back, 17 that that replacement of the phrase makes up in place of forms. 18 Doesn't change the meaning of the sentence at all. And so let's look at 19 the answer choices here and see if any of those match both the meanings 20 of forms and make up. 21 So if we read through the answer choices, we have organizes composes, 22 conceives, and acquires, and we can see pretty quickly that the one that closest, 23 that has the closest meaning to the phrase mak...