The laboratory equipment was fully compliant with international safety standards, a condition the university had to document before any student could operate it.
该实验室设备完全符合国际安全标准，校方须先备案证明这一点，学生才能操作。
Which choice best defines “compliant”?
D — Obedient conforming submissive. “compliant” means obedient conforming submissive.
Which word means “obedient conforming submissive”?
B — compliant. “compliant” means obedient conforming submissive.
compliant — obedient conforming submissive. In Chinese: 顺从的，符合的.
compliant is pronounced /kəmˈplaɪənt/.
The laboratory equipment was fully compliant with international safety standards, a condition the university had to document before any student could operate it. (该实验室设备完全符合国际安全标准，校方须先备案证明这一点，学生才能操作。)
obedient, conforming, acquiescent — all close in meaning to compliant (obedient conforming submissive).
defiant, noncompliant — each the opposite of compliant (obedient conforming submissive).
Yes. compliant 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.
com-(together) + pli(bend) + ant → obedient.