[Video] Q35: As used in line 50, “reason” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 35 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Question 35 says as used in line 50 reason, 2 most nearly means what? So let's look back in the passage for some context 3 here. So the sentence that they're referring to starts in line 47, 4 it says, and how can women be expected to cooperate unless you know why 5 she ought to be virtuous, unless freedom strengthen her reason until she'd comprehend her 6 duty and see, and what manner it is connected with her real good. 7 So let's just remember that the word we're looking for here is this 8 reason found in line 50 and the, 9 a little bit of context that we can use to kind of determine what 10 this reason is referring to is the fact that it's saying she 11 should know why she ought to be virtuous and freedom 12 is strengthening her reason until she's comprehending her duty. 13 So if you're increasing something or strengthening something in order to achieve 14 comprehension, that's something is going to be just knowledge in general. 15 So a word that we could use to replace this reason might 16 just be knowledge, right? 17 You're strengthening your knowledge until you comprehend your duty. 18 You're learning why you ought to be virtuous, 19 things like that. So let's look at the answer choices and see which one 20 best matches that idea. So if we look at answer choice 21 a, it says motive. So if you're strengthening a motive until you're comprehending 22 something, that's not really going to work. 23 If you're strengthening a motive, right? A motive is something goes with motiv...