An article about renewable energy storage opens with a technical explanation of how lithium-ion batteries degrade over repeated charging cycles, then spends its remaining sections describing three emerging alternative battery technologies designed to avoid this specific problem.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Poet Celeste Marchetti argues that traditional forms, far from constraining honest expression, actually sharpen a poet's thinking by forcing difficult, productive choices about word and rhythm that free verse allows a writer to avoid.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
- Mudskippers retreat to burrows in the mud during high tide to avoid predators.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Which choice best defines “avoid”?
A — Keep away from, prevent. “avoid” means keep away from, prevent.
Which word means “keep away from, prevent”?
A — avoid. “avoid” means keep away from, prevent.
avoid — keep away from, prevent. In Chinese: 避免，躲开.
avoid is pronounced /əˈvɔɪd/.
An article about renewable energy storage opens with a technical explanation of how lithium-ion batteries degrade over repeated charging cycles, then spends its remaining sections describing three emerging alternative battery technologies designed to avoid this specific problem.
Yes. avoid is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. 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.
a(distance from)+void(empty)