[Video] Q48: As used in line 68, “hold” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 48 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

So 48. Um, we're basically going to go back to the passage. 2 We're going to go to line 68 and we're going to figure out what 3 we can replace with the word hold. So line 68 is here. 4 History suggests that those will be hard lines to hold, 5 and it may be difficult to persuade the public that such barren environments are 6 worth preserving. So the preserving is kind of like the same thing as hold 7 here. So if you look over here, 8 others would suggest that getting ourselves in spaces, which is not an acceptable alternative 9 history suggests that those would be hard lines to hold hard lines, 10 to preserve hard lines, to keep hard lines, 11 to promise. Right. Keep preserve promise. 12 Okay. Grip, restraint, and withstand both do not mean keep the only one that 13 means preserver keep is maintained. So there you have it. 14 So basically all you had to do was just come up with your own 15 pseudonym and then find the one that's most similar to one of the options 16 in line 48. So the answer is yes.