Explanation for Question 49 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 49 says as used in line 62 dramatic most nearly means. 2 So let's look back in the passage to get some context for this work. 3 If we look in the paragraph surrounding the sentence, 4 it's outlining two different experiments that were run by two different scientists. 5 And it's saying that the sentence says the results were dramatic. 6 So referring to the results of the two experiments in this case, 7 we can take this word dramatic and see if we can find 8 any words from our vocabulary that we could use to replace it. 9 So the first word that comes to my head when I'm thinking of something 10 to replace this with, and remember the key to this is replacing it with 11 a word, but still maintaining the meaning of the sentence. 12 So you're going to be looking for synonyms for dramatic. 13 So in this case, the first word that comes to my head is something 14 like remarkable that the results of the experiments 15 were remarkable. 16 So let's look back at the answer choices and see which one best matches 17 both remarkable and dramatic here. 18 So scroll back down. So we have theatrical sudden impressive 19 and emotional. So the answer choice that's going to best match. 20 My choice of remarkable in the passages use of dramatic is going to be 21 see impressive. So if we look at answer choice a 22 theatrical, that's going to be a synonym of the word dramatic, 23 but it's not going to maintain the meaning of the sentence in the context 24 of the passage. So if we remember th...