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Reading Comprehension · Meaning in Context

PrepTest 113 · Section 1 · Question 5

Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Meaning in Context
The one idea it tests
A word means what the sentence around it needs, not just its dictionary sense.
The basic logic
Cover the word, read the sentence, and predict a plain replacement. Note whose claim it is: the word carries that speaker's attitude. Then match your prediction.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “single”
  • “halt”
  • “forcing”

Playground logic

In the club story, Marcus says one mulish member can freeze a vote. From his angle, mulish means stubborn and unwilling to budge.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–7). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Treehouse Club's Everybody-Agrees Rule →

Step 3 · Try the model question

As used in the club story's opening paragraph, "mulish" most nearly means

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 113, Section 1, Question 5 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 5 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the word in its sentence and note whose claim it belongs to. Cover it and predict a replacement that keeps that speaker's meaning and tone. Plug each choice back into the sentence. Choose the one that keeps the claim the same, and drop words that are kinder, harsher or simply different in sense.