To conserve water during the prolonged drought, the city council voted to curtail residential lawn watering to two days per week.
为了在长期干旱期间节约用水，市议会投票决定将居民草坪浇水缩减为每周两天。
Which choice best defines “curtail”?
D — To cut short; reduce.. “curtail” means To cut short; reduce..
Which word means “To cut short; reduce.”?
D — curtail. “curtail” means To cut short; reduce..
curtail — To cut short; reduce.. In Chinese: 缩减;削减.
curtail is pronounced //kɜːˈteɪl//.
To conserve water during the prolonged drought, the city council voted to curtail residential lawn watering to two days per week. (为了在长期干旱期间节约用水，市议会投票决定将居民草坪浇水缩减为每周两天。)
reduce, cut back, diminish — all close in meaning to curtail (To cut short; reduce.).
expand, extend — each the opposite of curtail (To cut short; reduce.).
Yes. curtail is on the SAT Prep Difficult list — the higher-register words that decide the hard questions. 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.
curt(短) + tail(尾) → 剪短。