Explanation for Question 37 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 37 says as used in line 32 observed most nearly means what? 2 So let's look back in the passage for some context here. 3 The sentence that we're talking about starts in line 28. 4 It says, but I do mean to say that although bad laws, 5 if they exist should be repealed as soon as possible. 6 Still why they, while they continue in force for the sake of example, 7 they should be religiously observed. So basically what the sentence is saying is 8 that although bad laws exist and they should be fixed while 9 they're still in force, they should be obeyed. 10 So obey by laws until they're not laws anymore. 11 And then you can kind of disregard the idea that was bad. 12 In this case, this observed is going to be synonymous 13 with something like obeyed, 14 so they should be religiously obeyed. 15 So let's look at the answer choices here and see which one kind of 16 matches this idea of obedience. 17 So answer choice a says, 18 followed, which might be a good idea here and would go along with the 19 idea of being religiously observed, right? 20 People follow certain religions. So if you're going to religiously follow something here 21 that might make sense, followed also goes along with the idea of obey. 22 If you obey someone, you follow their instructions. 23 But if you look at answer choice B, it says scrutinized. 24 So answer choice B is going to be incorrect. 25 So scrutinized means like considered harshly or criticized in this case. 26 He's not saying that he's saying t...