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When you encounter a Word Knowledge question that asks you to define a word in a sentence, you may find that swapping out the underlined word with each of your choices leads you to the correct answer.

The CDC hasn’t been able to identify the pathogen that these people ingested before turning into zombies.

(A) person

(B) carrier

(C) event

(D) bacteria

Replace pathogen with person, carrier, event, and bacteria. (The word ingested is a big clue. The words person, carrier, and event just don’t make sense in the sentence.)

This strategy can work in conjunction with other strategies, too:

Maria was worried that the cockroaches in the apartment would have a deleterious effect on her daughter’s health.

(A) helpful

(B) harmful

(C) erasing

(D) backward

Replace deleterious with each of the answer choices. Choice (B), harmful, is the only one that makes sense — especially because the sentence says, “Maria was worried,” which shows you that the correct answer won’t be something positive.