<p>I’m kidding, but I still don’t understand this one:</p>
<p>Feeling ------- by a voting process that ultimately led to their votes being invalidated, these citizens --------------- their discontent by way of a lawsuit</p>
<p>C. Comproise… Garnered
D. Disenfranchised… registered</p>
<p>How is D correct? I thought “registered” was weird, and C made sense. they felt “compromised” (betrayed, made vulnuerable) and garnered (gathered) their discontent in a lawsuit</p>
<p>It’s D.</p>
<p>You can’t “garner” discontent.
The citizens already feel discontent, and they want to make that known by means of “registering” it.</p>
<p>Why can’t you garner discontent. It’s juts “gathering.” They gathered it in a lawsuit? Maybe I’m just plain wrong lol.</p>
<p>In this situation D is the best answer. The CB is not asking you to choose whichever choice could be correct. They want you to choose the best answer.</p>
<p>CB can fu…</p>
<p>Ok, I guess so.</p>
<p>Again, you can’t garner it. It’s not an effort to gather discontent. They ALREADY FEEL discontent. They don’t need to summon their strengths to feel that way. What they want is a word that shows they made it known. Register = make it known, not garner</p>
<p>Also, “disenfranchised” is specifically a way someone would feel about a voting process which would lead to feeling discontent.</p>
<p>Was this on the CR section…? I don’t remmember this one… :<</p>
<p>It is obviously D. This is a ludicrously easy question. I can assure you this is not the hardest question that the CB has ever written. When I took the SAT in 1969 this question would probably have been the easiest on the test. If anybody had any trouble with this one there must have been a massive decline in the cognitive ability of American high school students since the 1960s.</p>
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<p>Indeed.10char</p>
<p>Disenfranchisement=Not having the right to vote or to have your vote counted. It fits better than “compromise.”</p>
<p>I can not imagine anyone having to seriously think about this SC or spend more than two or three seconds on it to get the obvious right answer. Would this really be considered a difficult question on the CR section of the SAT?</p>
<p>There were no SAT prep courses or books or practice tests in 1969 and actually back then no one considered the SATs to be a test that anyone would actually study for. It seems to me that students today do not do any better on the SATs, despite all the SAT prep courses and books and countless hours spent by people taking practice tests, than students did on the test did 40 years ago when no one ever prepared for the test, they just got up on test day, grabbed a couple of #2 pencils but no calculators since they did not exist then, and went and took the test and did just as well as students in 2010 who spent huge amounts of time and money on SAT preparation and graphing calculators. Furthermore, the “verbal” part of the exam, as it was called then, was more difficult than the CR section of today which no longer contains the analogies section which not only tested vocabulary but also intelligence and abililty to reason.</p>
<p>If the question that is the subject of this thread is representative of the difficulty of questions on the current CR section of the test it seems to me like all these efforts to study for the test are of no value. No one who thinks of themselves as college material should need any preparation to correctly and quickly answer such a simple question.</p>
<p>It seems that in your haste to exert your dominance you missed that I said “just kidding.”</p>
<p>Disenfranchise was in Direct Hits; was it not? </p>
<p>Shame on you for not knowing a word from it.</p>
<p>Disenfranchised means to take away the right to vote, and this fits perfectly in the first blank. “votes being invalidated”=disenfranchised. Even though the second word for both choices can work, D provides a BETTER answer for the first blank, and therefore is a better answer altogether.</p>
<p>Now this SC question does neither deserve a thread nor all those posts. It’s literally ludicrous.
Feeling disenfranchised by a voting process that ultimately led to their votes being invalidated, these citizens registered their discontent by way of a lawsuit. </p>
<p>Here’s the explanation, there was a certain voting process which made the citizen’s votes void or invalid. So, on recognizing that they had been deprived of their right to vote, they registered their annoyance and discontent in the court in a form of a lawsuit. </p>
<p>Oh, God! That’s way so dumb. THERE IS NOTHING TO EXPLAIN!!</p>
<p>AND, Indeed the level of students is in decline!!</p>