[Video] Q32: As used in line 9, “raise” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 32 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Question 32 asks as used in line nine res most nearly means what? 2 So let's look back at the sentence that they're referencing here to get some 3 context, to help us answer this question. So the sentence of this word 4 is contained and starts there in lines six. It says, 5 I believe that the social changes, which bring nearer to the same level, 6 the father and son, the master and servant and superiors and inferiors, 7 generally speaking, will raise women and make her more and more of the equal 8 of man. So just a reminder here that the word we're looking at is 9 raised, and we can understand this in the context of bringing 10 nearer to the same level. So if this sentence is saying the same thing 11 that brings near to the same level, these things will also raise the status 12 of women. So you can kind of make those phrases synonymous with each other. 13 And in this case, raise is just being used to say, 14 like heightened the status of, so let's look at the answer choices here 15 and see which one best conveys that idea. 16 We can just go through each of them individually. 17 So we'll start with answer choice a, it says to increase in this case, 18 you would need like extra verbiage around the word increase to maintain the meaning 19 of this sentence. If you were just to say, to increase women that might 20 be understood or translated as like to increase the population of 21 women, rather than increasing the status or raising the status. 22 So answer choice a would be incor...