A city's traffic engineers found that intersections with audible pedestrian signals had fewer pedestrian injuries among visually impaired residents than similar intersections with only visual walk signals, even though both types of intersections had comparable overall pedestrian foot traffic.
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Which choice best defines “audible”?
B — Able to be heard. “audible” means able to be heard.
Which word means “able to be heard”?
A — audible. “audible” means able to be heard.
audible — able to be heard. In Chinese: 可听见的.
audible is pronounced /ˈɔː.dɪ.bl̩/.
A city's traffic engineers found that intersections with audible pedestrian signals had fewer pedestrian injuries among visually impaired residents than similar intersections with only visual walk signals, even though both types of intersections had comparable overall pedestrian foot traffic.
Yes. audible is on the SAT Prep Difficult list — the higher-register words that decide the hard questions. 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.
audi(hear)+ -ble (able)→ can be heard