Commodious: meaning and SAT practice

Commodious (adjective) means: Spacious and comfortable with plenty of room.

Commodious in a sentence

The commodious apartment had large windows and high ceilings throughout.

Similar: spacious, roomy, comfortable, generous. Opposite: cramped, tiny.

SAT-style practice: what does “commodious” most nearly mean?

The commodious apartment had large windows and high ceilings throughout.

As used in the sentence, “commodious” most nearly means

  1. secluded
  2. sinister
  3. furious
  4. spacious
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Answer: D. “commodious” means: Spacious and comfortable with plenty of room. “spacious” is the closest match in this sentence. The other choices are real SAT-level words, but none of them carries that meaning here.

On the digital SAT this is the “Words in Context” skill, about 7 of the 54 Reading and Writing questions. The test asks what a word means as used in the passage, so a word’s most common meaning is not always the answer. More of these, with full explanations, are on SAT Words in Context practice questions.

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