SAT Words in Context Question

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Question 1 · Easy · Reading and WritingOctober 2024 Batch 2 · Q1Words in Context · 0 solved

Despite stated claims of global relevance, much major research on income inequality performed in the 2010s suffered from a myopic focus on a few countries in North America and Western Europe, partly due to limited data availability. Researchers would later this shortcoming after gaining new access to administrative records located in nations in South America, such as Brazil, and Eastern Europe, such as Russia. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Strategy

In words-in-context questions, first determine what the passage as a whole is saying. Identify the semantic relationship the blank word must express. Eliminate any word that is synonymous with the wrong concept (e.g., confirming instead of correcting). Test the remaining choices in context and select the one that is both logical and precise.

Hints (open one at a time)

Hint 1

The sentence describes a shortcoming (myopic focus, limited data) that researchers later addressed.

Hint 2

The word needed should mean to reduce, lessen, or fix a problem or shortcoming.

Hint 3

The context of gaining new access to data supports a word meaning they improved or reduced the earlier limitation.

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The trap here

Words in Context: the hardest word is rarely the answer — SAT vocabulary questions reward the word the sentence supports, not the word that sounds most advanced.