Sentence:  Mr. Black 's life was an open book , so to speak , from his birth in Jackson , Mississippi , through his basketball-playing days at L. S. U. and his attainment of a B. A. degree , which had presumably <WSD>prepared</WSD> him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  educate for a future role or function