Explanation for Question 30 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 30 says as used in line 87, 2 critical most nearly means what? So let's look back into the passage at the 3 sentence that they're referencing for some context, 4 to help us answer this question. So the sentence that they're talking about starts 5 in line 85, it says their findings may be considered significant progress and the 6 comprehension of one of the most critical phases in the coupling between physical and 7 biological processes on earth. So just a reminder, 8 the word that we're talking about here is critical. 9 And let's see if we can find a word from our own vocabulary that 10 we can use to replace critical and still maintain the meaning of 11 the sentence. So the first word that comes to my mind when 12 I think to replace critical in the sentence is crucial. 13 So the sentence would read their findings may be considered significant progress in the 14 comprehension of one of the most crucial phases in the coupling between physical and 15 biological processes on earth. So let's see if any of the answer choices 16 in this question resemble the meaning of the word crucial. 17 So we can see pretty closely that answer choice a is going to resemble 18 the meaning of both crucial and critical in the context that we're talking about 19 here as being important. So this is a good answer, 20 but let's talk about why all the other answers are incorrect. 21 If we look at answer choice, be analytical. 22 If we were to describe the phases as analytical, 23 that wouldn't r...