[Video] Q17: As used in line 61, “favor” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 17 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Question 17 says as used in mind 61 favor, 2 most nearly means what? So let's look at this sentence in context and see 3 what we're talking about here. So the sentence starts in line 59. 4 It says the millennials who reached adulthood around the turn of the century and 5 now outnumber baby boomers tend to favor cities over suburbs and are far more 6 willing than their parents to ride buses and subways. 7 So the word we're looking at here again is favor. 8 And so we can kind of think of a word from our own vocabulary 9 that we might be able to use to replace this, or just kind of 10 talk about the meaning of the sentence in general. 11 And so the thing that I would say here is that the millennials 12 who reached adulthood around the turn of the century and now outnumber baby boomers 13 tend to choose cities over suburbs. 14 So if you favor something, 15 you're going to choose it over something else. So you're going to choose the 16 cities over the suburbs, and they're far more willing than their parents to ride 17 buses and subways. So let's look at the answer choices and see which one 18 might match that. 19 Okie dokie. So if we start with answer choice a, 20 it says to indulge, so this is going to be incorrect because 21 indulge would imply something else. 22 Other than like, you're going to choose one or the other indulging in something 23 is like rewarding yourself with something or something like that. 24 But that would be incorrect in the context here. 25 So indulge woul...