[Video] Q22: As used in line 7, “challenged” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 22 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Question 22 says as used in line seven challenged, 2 most nearly means what? So let's look back in the passage for some context 3 here, we can read the sentence that this is referencing. 4 It says, so when a group of graduate students challenged him to come up 5 with new data on the age, old ground, 6 up tree down debate, he designed a project to see what clues might lie 7 and how baby game birds learned the fly. So remember, 8 we're focusing on this word, challenged here, 9 and it's referencing kind of a lighthearted student teacher dynamic, 10 right? You have this professor and then the graduate students are challenging him to 11 come up with new data. So just kind of like friendly competition or 12 like the students are asking him to come up with new data to prove 13 this age, old hypothesis theory kind of thing. 14 So let's look at the answer choices and see which one convey the 15 appropriate connotation for the student teacher dynamic here. 16 So if we start with answer choice a, 17 it says dared. So this might be a good answer, 18 right? The students, the graduate students are daring him to come up with new 19 evidence to introduce into this debate kind of with that 20 friendly competition vibe. So maybe that's right. 21 If you look at answer choice B, it says required. 22 So again, that's well, not again, 23 but that's not really going to go with the dynamic here, 24 right? Students can't require things of their teachers and requiring someone 25 to find new evidence w...