SAT Critical Reading: How to Answer Definition Questions
February 9, 2009 by Adam
Filed under All Posts, Critical Reading, Passage Reading, SAT Strategies, SAT Unlocked
Common to SAT passage reading, definition questions ask you what a specific word “most nearly means” in the context of a short or long passage.
To answer definition questions:
- First, eliminate answers that are not definitions or synonyms of the word in the question.
- Next, substitute the remaining answer choices into the sentence itself and see which one works best as a replacement.
Remember: a correct definition answer has to BOTH work in the sentence AND actually mean something similar to the word it replaces.
From my SAT training guide: SAT Unlocked.
