ENGENDER appeared on the first Digital SAT back in March 2023. ENGENDER means to cause or give rise to a feeling, situation, or condition. SAT test writers have used this definitional connection to causation to create a significant number of challenging Module 2 vocabulary in context questions.
For example, the rising price of collectible action dolls has the counterintuitive effect of ENGENDERING an increase in demand for these items. In another widely used example, adding humanoid features to robots ENGENDERS feelings of comfort among people who work with these machines.
More recently, the fragmentation of once contiguous forests ENGENDERS changes in the area’s ecological balance. This question included preempt and attenuate as tempting but incorrect answers. Note that in all of these questions, ENGENDER is the most precise answer because it means to cause a feeling, situation, or condition.
ENGENDER - to cause or give rise to a feeling, situation, or condition