[Video] Q20: No change or subdues or destroys or dominates

Explanation for Question 20 From the Writing Section on the 2019 October Sat

So for number 20, our best, answer's going to be a no change. 2 So let's take a closer look at the sentence here. 3 It says eight 2003 study at Harvard medical school found that blue light blank, 4 the secretion of melatonin. So basically we know that another synonym that could go 5 here would be decreases right? 6 Blue light production decreases the production of melatonin. 7 And so we want to find a word that is most similar to decrease. 8 And now these types of questions, a word choice questions are always best done 9 by process of elimination. So I would highly suggest going through each answer choice 10 and then coming to the correct answer rather than actively looking for one answer. 11 That's right. And one that immediately pops out to me as being wrong is 12 destroys, right? Because we know that blue light decreases melatonin, 13 but destroys is a really aggressive word of conflict, 14 right. 15 That would say that physically, uh, 16 destroys or physically hurts, 17 right. The melatonin. And we know it's not that aggressive of a sentence, 18 right? We're not doing anything physical here. And D is kind of similar to 19 destroys, right? Dominates, um, 20 shows that there's kind of this like physical aggressiveness or superiority 21 of the blue light over the melatonin. And again, 22 that's not the case here where you want a word that's very similar to 23 decrease, right. A straightforward non-aggressive word. 24 And so now we just have to choose between subdue and suppr...