SAT Practice34595d00-e2e3-49d2-9ab1-7f222dc78786
Practice one SAT question at a time
Questions come from the Bluebook question bank.
The following text is from Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand.
The trees in their spring beauty sent through her restive mind a sharp thrill of pleasure. Seductive, charming, and beckoning as cities were, they had not this easy unhuman loveliness.
As used in the text, what does the word “beckoning” most nearly mean?