The navigation of the early Polynesian voyages involved a complicated system of star charts and ocean currents.
早期波利尼西亚航海的导航涉及一套复杂的星图和洋流系统。
Which choice best defines “complicated”?
C — Difficult to understand or deal with. “complicated” means difficult to understand or deal with.
Which word means “difficult to understand or deal with”?
A — complicated. “complicated” means difficult to understand or deal with.
complicated — difficult to understand or deal with. In Chinese: 复杂的.
complicated is pronounced /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪd/.
The navigation of the early Polynesian voyages involved a complicated system of star charts and ocean currents. (早期波利尼西亚航海的导航涉及一套复杂的星图和洋流系统。)
intricate, complex, convoluted — all close in meaning to complicated (difficult to understand or deal with).
simple, straightforward — each the opposite of complicated (difficult to understand or deal with).
Yes. complicated 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.