SAT Reading & Writing · Words in Context
The city's new zoning proposal drew criticism for being needlessly ______, requiring separate permits and reviews for changes that could…
The city's new zoning proposal drew criticism for being needlessly ______, requiring separate permits and reviews for changes that could easily have been handled through a single unified application process.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Answer and explanation
Answer: C: cumbersome
The passage describes a process requiring multiple separate permits and reviews where one would have sufficed, a hallmark of an unnecessarily complicated procedure, which cumbersome names directly. Convenient would suggest ease, the opposite of what critics are describing. Affordable concerns cost, never mentioned in the passage. Popular concerns public approval, contradicted by the fact that critics are objecting to the process.
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