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Reading Comprehension · Meaning in Context

PrepTest 149 · Section 2 · 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
Read the term by its example and by its contrast with the next kind.
The basic logic
Look at the example given for the term and at the other category it is set against. The meaning lives in that contrast.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “some”
  • “others”
  • “such as”

Playground logic

In the kid passage, a borrowed-whole word like "offside" is taken over with its sound and meaning intact, unlike a mash-up the kids made up themselves.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–5). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Is Elm Park Kickball Its Own Game? →

Step 3 · Try the model question

As used in the kid passage, "borrowed-whole words" most likely refers to words that

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 149, Section 2, 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 term and read the example that follows it. Then read the sentence that introduces the contrasting category. The right meaning fits the example and is different from the contrast. Reject choices that describe the other category or that fit only some of the words.