Historian Thomas Reyes agrees that the printing press mattered but argues that widespread literacy programs, which predated the press by decades in some regions, were an equally necessary precondition, since a printed pamphlet is useless to someone who cannot read it.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
Political scientist Julia Novak argues that term limits reduce political corruption by preventing officials from accumulating entrenched networks of influence over decades in office.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
While solar panel efficiency has roughly doubled over the past two decades, the primary driver of falling solar energy costs has actually been manufacturing scale: as factories produce panels in ever-larger volumes, the cost per unit has dropped far more than efficiency gains alone would predict.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “decade”?
C — Ten years. “decade” means ten years.
Which word means “ten years”?
D — decade. “decade” means ten years.
decade — ten years. In Chinese: 十年，十年期.
decade is pronounced /ˈdekeɪd/.
Historian Thomas Reyes agrees that the printing press mattered but argues that widespread literacy programs, which predated the press by decades in some regions, were an equally necessary precondition, since a printed pamphlet is useless to someone who cannot read it.
Yes. decade 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.
deca(ten)+de(suffix).