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ID: SAT-RW-CS-030
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Craft and Structure
Topic: Words in Context
Difficulty level: Medium

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Critics have long prized the economy of Maren Voss’s late poems. In them not a syllable is wasted, and a single plain image—a door left ajar, a cooling cup—is made to carry what lesser writers would spread across an entire stanza. Nothing is repeated; nothing is explained twice.

As used in the text, what does the word “economy” most nearly mean?

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