[Video] Q31: As used in line 21, “common” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 31 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Question 31 says as used in line 21, 2 common most nearly means what? So let's look into the passage here and get 3 some context. So the sentence that the referencing starts in line 21, 4 it says, it seems to us incontestable that our common happiness above all that 5 of women requires they never aspire to the exercise of political 6 rights and function. And if you read through the rest of this passage, 7 you can conclude that it's defending the position that it 8 is necessary in society for women to have different rights than men. 9 And in this case, um, the sentence that we're referencing here, 10 defends that by saying that it's necessary to the common happiness of society. 11 So the common happiness of everyone here is just the happiness 12 of all people. So we can think of some words, 13 maybe from our own vocabulary that we could use to replace this word common. 14 And the first word that comes to my mind is overall. 15 So it seems to us incontestable that our overall happiness 16 above all that of women requires that they never aspire to the exercise of 17 political rights and functions. So let's look at the answer choices here and see 18 if one of them maybe matches that. 19 Or if any of them maintain the meaning of the sentence, 20 if you replace it. So we can see that we have answered 21 choices, average shared course and similar. 22 So we can go through each of these answer choices 23 individually. So answer choice a says average, 24 this might be an okay answer ch...