[Video] Q12: As used in line 21, “allows” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 12 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

Okay, so now we're doing number 12. It says as using line 21 allows 2 most nearly means we're going to go up to line 21. 3 We're going to try to figure out what we're going to replace allows with. 4 So we're going to black out the word. Um, 5 21 is right here. T S S allows scientists to order 6 up internet based surveys. Okay. 7 When you're using the word allows there's numbers of meanings that it could actually 8 mean, but you need look at the context of the sentence. So what it 9 means for the specific situation. So let's start, 10 um, over here a little bit earlier than the sentence. 11 Um, the exam, every study, since 2002, 12 that was funded by competitive grants program called TSS timesharing experiments for the social 13 sciences tests, blinks scientists to order up 14 internet based surveys, a representative sample of us adults to test a particular hypothesis. 15 Okay. So is there the word allows, what is this word actually doing here? 16 It's giving the scientists the ability to order 17 up internet based. So it equalizes them. 18 It gives them the ability to do this. That's that's the word that I'm 19 looking for and bam, the CA the word for give someone the ability to 20 do something is enabled. It enables someone to do something. 21 Um, these other words don't make sense here. 22 They just don't even mean enable. So there you have it for that one.