SAT Reading & Writing · Words in Context
The endorsement was carefully ______: the committee praised the drug's early results while explicitly declining to recommend it for…
The endorsement was carefully ______: the committee praised the drug's early results while explicitly declining to recommend it for patients outside the original trial's narrow profile until confirmatory data arrived.
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: B: hedged
The passage describes praise paired with an explicit, deliberate limitation on how far that praise extends, exactly what hedged names: qualified in a way that guards against overcommitment. Absolute would mean unrestricted endorsement, the opposite of the described limitation. Incidental concerns something minor or accidental, not a deliberate qualification. Retroactive concerns applying backward in time, unrelated to the scope of the endorsement.
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