Digital SAT Reading and Writing Practice Question #781

Linguist Dr. Aris Thorne theorizes that 'semantic bleaching'—the process by which a word entirely loses its original, nuanced meaning—is accelerated primarily by a word's high frequency of use across disparate social groups. Thorne argues that as varying demographic communities adopt a specific term, they subconsciously adapt it to their unique cultural contexts. This widespread adaptation inherently dilutes the word's core meaning to maximize its conversational versatility. Thus, Thorne concludes that broad social adoption inevitably forces a rapid compromise in a word's semantic precision. Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken Thorne's hypothesis?