Explanation for Question 37 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 37 says as used in line 31 resolved most nearly means what? 2 So we're going to look back here in the passage at the sentence that 3 contains this word and see if we can get some context. 4 And then we'll talk about the correct answer here and why the other answers 5 are incorrect. This one's a little bit tricky because a lot of these words 6 have similar meanings, but we'll talk about that when we get to the answer 7 choices. So if we look at this sentence, 8 it says that in recent years, 9 studies have begun to resolve these issues by sequencing the DNA of the prehistoric 10 prehistoric farmers themselves. So again, 11 the word that we're looking to interpret here is resolved. 12 So in this case, what this is telling us is that these studies have 13 begun to address these issues or solve these issues with a certain like 14 action that they're taking to solve them. 15 So let's talk about the answers here and see which one best works. 16 So we have reduced dispel settle and declare. 17 Now the one that we can eliminate right off the bat is going to 18 be answered choice D declare. So if they're declaring the issues, 19 they're going to be like, Hey, this is a problem not, 20 Hey, we have a solution to this problem. So then we're left with reduced 21 dispel and settle. So the correct answer out of these three is going to 22 be subtle. And that's going to be, 23 because this one most closely represents the idea that they're solving these problems through 24 active mean...