Explanation for Question 45 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 45 says as used in line 16 induced most nearly means what? 2 So let's look at the passage for some context about this word. 3 So the sentence that is included in says, 4 do the blades of a plow, which can reach more than a foot beneath 5 the soil surface, bring some of these buried seeds to the surface where their 6 germination is induced by exposure to sunlight. 7 So what we can do here is we can take this word induced and 8 we can try and find other words in our vocabulary that we could replace 9 it with and maintain the meaning of the sentence. 10 So a few words that come to my mind first are maybe where their 11 germination is caused by exposure to sunlight or 12 where their germination is encouraged by exposure to sunlight. 13 So let's use those words and see 14 which answer choice best matches one of them. 15 So if we scroll down and look at some of the answer choices that 16 we have here, we have Lord established, 17 convinced, and stimulated. So the word that's best going to match. 18 The words that we came up with is going to be stimulated. 19 It means along the lines of encouraged, 20 right? So if we look at something like convinced 21 answer choice C, we can consider that in the context of the passage. 22 So it says where their germination is convinced 23 by exposure to sunlight. So sunlight exposure 24 is not able to convince something to germinate, 25 right? So that would be an incorrect answer here, 26 just an incorrect verb. 27 And then if we look at t...