Explanation for Question 14 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 14 says as used in line 24, 2 common most nearly means what? So let's look at the passage here to get 3 some context. The sentence that they're referencing referencing starts in line 21. 4 It says it is generally accepted that public knowledge should be authoritative, 5 but there is not always common agreement about what the public needs to know 6 who is best placed to relate and explain it and how authoritative reputation should 7 be determined and evaluated. So just a reminder, 8 the word that we're looking here at here is common. 9 And so we can kind of get an idea of what this means based 10 on this phrase, generally accepted because they're making a 11 comparison here, right? They're saying it's generally accepted that public knowledge should 12 be authoritative, but it's not always generally accepted, 13 or there's not a general consensus about what the public needs to know. 14 Duh. So this idea of common agreement is kind 15 of an idea of general consensus. So consensus 16 is just a synonym of agreement. So general consensus. 17 So an agreement between a lot of people, 18 namely in this case, probably society. 19 So let's look at the answer choices and see which one kind of best 20 relates to this idea of the general consensus of society. 21 So if we look at answer choice a, 22 it says numerous, so there's not always numerous agreement that doesn't 23 really make sense here. Numerous, isn't the right kind of adjective 24 to describe this consensus of people. 2...