The researchers made a desperate attempt to salvage the experiment before the power outage disrupted their data.
研究人员在停电扰乱数据之前，拼命试图挽救实验。
Which choice best defines “desperate”?
D — Feeling hopeless or urgent. “desperate” means feeling hopeless or urgent.
Which word means “feeling hopeless or urgent”?
A — desperate. “desperate” means feeling hopeless or urgent.
desperate — feeling hopeless or urgent. In Chinese: 绝望的，极需要的.
desperate is pronounced /ˈdespərət/.
The researchers made a desperate attempt to salvage the experiment before the power outage disrupted their data. (研究人员在停电扰乱数据之前，拼命试图挽救实验。)
hopeless, urgent, frantic — all close in meaning to desperate (feeling hopeless or urgent).
hopeful, calm — each the opposite of desperate (feeling hopeless or urgent).
Yes. desperate 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.
desesper(Desperate)+ate(adj.)