Answer Choices
vitality.
durability.
protection.
self-sufficiency.
Explanation for Question 2 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Question two says as compared with Silas's gold IPS portrayed as having more. 2 So we can look back in the passage where they make the direct comparison 3 between Silas's golden epi and see what we can determine from them. 4 So it starts off the passage right off the bat. 5 It says, unlike the gold, which needed nothing and must be worshiped in close 6 locked solitude, which was hidden away from the daylight was deaf to the song 7 of birds and started to know human tones. 8 Abby was a creature of endless claims and ever-growing desires seeking and loving sunshine 9 and living sounds and living moments, making trial of everything with trust in new 10 joy and stirring the human kindness and all eyes that looked on her. 11 So you can see that the comparison between these is very much like a 12 negative versus a positive. You can see that the gold is described as Def 13 and hidden away from the daylight. 14 Whereas epi is described as seeking and loving sunshine and 15 stirring human kindness. So in this case, 16 you can kind of make the distinction between this gold being a very muted 17 kind of hidden away type thing. 18 Whereas epi is this very rambunctious or like 19 not obnoxious in a bad way, but like just lively kind of creature. 20 So if we look back at the answer choices here, 21 we have vitality durability protection and self-sufficiency so vitality 22 is going to mean something like lively. 23 Like we just use to describe epi. Their ability is obviously like how 24 dur...