Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL):
Information, Interactive Practice Exercises, and Practice Tests 1
Objective: Determine the meaning of words and phrases. The correct answer is (c). Choice (d) refers to some ideas in the context of the passage, but is otherwise irrelevant. Choice (b) gives an example of the word “migrations,” not “emigrations.” Similarly, choice (a) defines a related word, “immigrations.” Choice (c) is a correct definition of the word, and also works in the context of the pasage: note that later in the same paragraph, the writer says that in other communities, “the old farm was not large enough to take care of all, so groups of young people pushed onward.” These are the people moving from an old place to an (unspecified) new one.