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. (3 points)

synthesize
elicit
invoke
evoke

The given passage talks of the journalist who had done a year's worth of researching about the different government sanctions. And now that the editor had asked him to write a comprehensive article about his work, he will have to bring his facts together and try to write the best article he can, making use of all the research he had done. The correct word for the black in the sentence will be "synthesize" for it suggests the act of bringing things together to produce a whole complete thing. So, if the journalist synthesize his information from the research, he will be able to produce an article that will present detailed information about the topic.