[Video] Q15: As used in line 35, “clear” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 15 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Question 15 asks as you sit in line 35 clear most nearly means. 2 Well, so let's look back at the sentence that they're referencing here. 3 It gets some context as to how this word is being used to help 4 us better answer this question. So the sentence that they're talking about 5 says the pattern is clear. As businesses generated more value from their workers, 6 the country, as a whole, it became richer, 7 which field more economic activity and created even more jobs. 8 So just to reminder, the word that we're looking at here is clear. 9 And if I were to maybe replace this word with something from my own 10 vocabulary, I would say something like the pattern is well understood 11 or obvious, so well understood or 12 obvious. So let's look back at the answer choices and 13 see which one best represents the kind of relationship between all 14 three of these words clear. Well, understood and obvious. 15 So if we read through each of them, 16 we can see that we have peer keen untroubled and unmistakable. 17 Now the correct answer here is going to be unmistakable. 18 It's the one that most goes along with the idea that a pattern 19 is obvious. A pattern is clear a pattern as well. Understood. 20 Right? If something's unmistakable, you cannot mistake it for anything 21 else. If we look at each of the other answer choices, 22 a is peer that's going to mean something like untainted and this case, 23 there's not really any indication that there would be something to taint this pattern...