The museum's new wing showcases contemporary art that challenges traditional notions of form and color.
博物馆的新馆展出当代艺术，这些作品挑战了传统的形式与色彩观念。
Art critic Simone Duval praises a museum's decision to display contemporary sculptures alongside ancient artifacts, arguing that the juxtaposition reveals surprising continuities in how humans across eras represent the body.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
Theater critic Amina Yusuf praises a director's decision to stage a Shakespearean tragedy in modern dress and a contemporary urban setting, arguing that the choice makes the play's themes feel newly urgent to modern audiences.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
- Cantor showed that some infinite sets are actually larger than others, a result many contemporaries found deeply counterintuitive.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Which choice best defines “contemporary”?
B — Modern; current; peer. “contemporary” means modern; current; peer.
Which word means “modern; current; peer”?
A — contemporary. “contemporary” means modern; current; peer.
contemporary — modern; current; peer. In Chinese: 当代的；同时代的.
contemporary is pronounced /kənˈtɛmpərɛri/.
The museum's new wing showcases contemporary art that challenges traditional notions of form and color. (博物馆的新馆展出当代艺术，这些作品挑战了传统的形式与色彩观念。)
modern, current, up-to-date — all close in meaning to contemporary (modern; current; peer).
outdated, ancient — each the opposite of contemporary (modern; current; peer).
Yes. contemporary 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- (common) + tempor (time) + ary → of the same time.