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Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A.

She began promoting the women’s suffrage movement - an effort to secure women’s voting rights - in 1910.
  1. secure
  2. protect
  3. advance
  4. progress
Explanation
Answer: A - The best choice is “secure”

When used as a verb, “secure” means “to obtain.” The purpose of the suffrage movement was to obtain voting rights for women. “Protect,” “advance” and “progress” all imply that women’s voting rights were already in place, but women didn’t get the right to vote until 1920.
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