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SAT Words in Context Question

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Question 1 · Easy · Reading and WritingDecember 2024 · Q1Words in Context · 0 solved

The following text is adapted from Yone Noguchi's 1914 memoir The Story of Yone Noguchi. Noguchi is returning home after eleven years abroad. I reached Tsushima, my native town, at evening. I frightened my old father at the station, who was actually trying to find me among some other people. There is no wonder that he could not recognise me; I must have changed a great deal. As used in the text, what does the word "find" most nearly mean?

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The trap here

The word you know, in a meaning you did not expect — SAT context questions favor common words used in a secondary sense. Recognizing the word is not the same as reading it.