The board of trustees will appoint a new director to oversee the museum's expansion project next year.
董事会将任命一位新馆长来监督博物馆明年的扩建项目。
A clinic compared average appointment wait times before and after adding a second receptionist:
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Which choice best defines “appoint”?
D — Assign to a job or position. “appoint” means assign to a job or position.
Which word means “assign to a job or position”?
A — appoint. “appoint” means assign to a job or position.
appoint — assign to a job or position. In Chinese: 任命.
appoint is pronounced /əˈpɔɪnt/.
The board of trustees will appoint a new director to oversee the museum's expansion project next year. (董事会将任命一位新馆长来监督博物馆明年的扩建项目。)
designate, assign, nominate — all close in meaning to appoint (assign to a job or position).
dismiss, remove — each the opposite of appoint (assign to a job or position).
Yes. appoint is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
ap(to go)+point(dot)