Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing· difficulty 4/5

Although the senator's bill went nowhere that session, its language has had a long afterlife. Phrase by phrase, succeeding legislatures have grafted its provisions onto bills with quite different ostensible aims.

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

  • A

    obtained through corruption

  • B

    incorporated into something else

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  • C

    transplanted living tissue

  • D

    drew with a pencil

Explanation

Provisions are inserted into other bills; "grafted" means incorporated into, extending the botanical/medical sense metaphorically. Not "graft" as corruption or drawing.

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