Question

Medal For Who Answers!! Read the following excerpt. Using the context of the paragraph, select the word that best completes the sentence.
The journalist spent a year researching the foreign government's sanctions. Finally, it was time to _____________________ all of the relevant information that he had learned. His editor asked him to write a comprehensive article for the first piece in the series that was sure to win awards, inform the public, and elicit significant change in foreign policy.

A. synthesize
B. elicit
C. invoke
D. evoke

Answer 1

A. Synthesize, if he is compiling multiple sources together.

Answer 2

The answer is A: synthesize.

To synthesize means to combine one or more elements to produce something new, like in this case, the journalist is putting together all the pieces of information that he gathered after a year or research. The activity of synthesizing information does not merely imply the congregation of different elements but, more importantly, making sense out of them, and, especially, out of the new whole.