Before choosing a career path, graduates often contemplate the long-term implications of their decision.
在选择职业道路之前，毕业生们常常深思自己决定的长期影响。
Which choice best defines “contemplate”?
B — To think about something deeply for a long time. “contemplate” means to think about something deeply for a long time.
Which word means “to think about something deeply for a long time”?
D — contemplate. “contemplate” means to think about something deeply for a long time.
contemplate — to think about something deeply for a long time. In Chinese: v. 深思，仔细考虑.
contemplate is pronounced /ˈkɒntəmpleɪt/.
Before choosing a career path, graduates often contemplate the long-term implications of their decision. (在选择职业道路之前，毕业生们常常深思自己决定的长期影响。)
ponder, deliberate, mull over — all close in meaning to contemplate (to think about something deeply for a long time).
ignore, disregard — each the opposite of contemplate (to think about something deeply for a long time).
Yes. contemplate 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.
con(together) + template(template) → to think together on a template → to contemplate, ponder.