Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
deterioration
wounding
limitation
Explanation for Question 14 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat
So question number 14 is a word choice question. 2 Will you see that in the sentence for saying opponents of this art form 3 maintain that remix artists violate copyright law because they borrow material 4 from produced works to the financial blank of the original artist, 5 right? And so if they're violating copyright law, 6 then what they're doing for the original artists is financially negative, 7 right? In a general sense, we know that we want to pick a negative 8 word. So detriment is negative. 9 Deterioration is negative and limitation. 10 These are all pretty negative. So we can't eliminate any right off the bat. 11 However, looking at wounding wounding is a very physical word, 12 right? When you have a wound, it's usually an injury to the body. 13 And so we're not causing any bodily harm to the original artists. 14 It's more right. Financial, economical harm. 15 And so C is a little bit, the connotation is too physical, 16 right? 17 And so now we can look at a, B and D. 18 Now D is a limitation and a limitation is not necessarily the best word 19 to use here because that, 20 that doesn't imply that the people that are violating the copyright laws are actually 21 hurting. The other artists limitation is a little bit too general, 22 and we don't actually get a sense that they are causing some type of 23 harm, right? So limitation does not equal harm. 24 And so D is not the best answer choice here and somewhere between, 25 um, a and B and now deterioration shows kind of l...