Explanation for Question 46 From the Reading Section on the 2019 April Sat
For 46, we want to know as used in line 42 sharply, 2 most nearly means. So let's go to line 42 without 3 looking at the answer choices and fund sharply. 4 Here it is. So now let's read the sentence. 5 For some context, these claims were sharply contested by some specialists 6 in the relevant fields. However, who either did not detect such evidence or argued 7 that the deposits had other causes than a cosmic impact. 8 So if we were to come up with our own word there, 9 we know that it's talking about specialists arguing. 10 So maybe they intensely contested. 11 They strongly contested, 12 they passionately contested. 13 So all of these words indicating that they were strongly arguing against 14 something. So now, if we look at our answer choices, 15 one of our synonyms is there strongly. 16 So we know that the correct answer is C and we weren't distracted by 17 any of the other answer choices.