The editor's critical review of the manuscript highlighted several factual errors and stylistic weaknesses that the author had overlooked.
编辑对稿件的批评性审阅指出了作者忽略的几处事实错误和风格弱点。
A profile of a surgeon opens mid-operation, describing the tense atmosphere of the operating room moments before a critical incision, then flashes back to recount her training decades earlier before returning to the operating room for the profile's conclusion.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
A profile of a wildland firefighter opens mid-blaze, describing the roar of flames moments before a critical evacuation decision, then flashes back to recount his training years earlier before returning to the fire line for the profile's conclusion.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “critical”?
A — Expressing disapproval or finding fault. “critical” means expressing disapproval or finding fault.
Which word means “expressing disapproval or finding fault”?
C — critical. “critical” means expressing disapproval or finding fault.
critical — expressing disapproval or finding fault. In Chinese: 批评的.
critical is pronounced /ˈkrɪtɪkəl/.
The editor's critical review of the manuscript highlighted several factual errors and stylistic weaknesses that the author had overlooked. (编辑对稿件的批评性审阅指出了作者忽略的几处事实错误和风格弱点。)
disapproving, censorious, judgmental — all close in meaning to critical (expressing disapproval or finding fault).
complimentary, approving — each the opposite of critical (expressing disapproval or finding fault).
Yes. critical 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.