Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing· difficulty 3/5

The poet's voice is steady, even reserved, but a careful reader soon learns to mark the small departures from that calm — the sudden internal rhyme, the stanza that runs a line too long. These are the moments where her feeling shows.

As used in the text, what does the word "mark" most nearly mean?

  • A

    celebrate publicly

  • B

    give a grade to

  • C

    leave a stain on

  • D

    notice and attend to

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Explanation

The careful reader learns to notice subtle departures, so "mark" means to notice or pay attention to, not stain, grade, or celebrate.

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