A profile of a jazz musician opens mid-performance, describing the tension in a concert hall moments before a solo, then flashes back to recount the musician's childhood training before returning to the concert for its conclusion.
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A profile of a surgeon opens mid-operation, describing the tense atmosphere of the operating room moments before a critical incision, then flashes back to recount her training decades earlier before returning to the operating room for the profile's conclusion.
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The scientific paper's introduction reviews three prior studies that reached conflicting conclusions about a compound's effectiveness, and the remainder of the paper describes a new experiment designed specifically to resolve that conflict.
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Which choice best defines “conclusion”?
B — End, result, decision. “conclusion” means end, result, decision.
Which word means “end, result, decision”?
C — conclusion. “conclusion” means end, result, decision.
conclusion — end, result, decision. In Chinese: 结论，结束.
conclusion is pronounced /kənˈkluːʒn/.
A profile of a jazz musician opens mid-performance, describing the tension in a concert hall moments before a solo, then flashes back to recount the musician's childhood training before returning to the concert for its conclusion.
Yes. conclusion is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
con(all)+clu(close)+sion