Frequent power outages in the rural region prompted engineers to redesign the electrical grid with redundant backup systems.
该农村地区频繁停电，促使工程师重新设计电网，配备冗余备用系统。
Psychologist Rina Okafor's study of 200 employees found that workers who received frequent, small praise from managers reported higher job satisfaction than those who received infrequent, large rewards, and she concluded that praise frequency matters more than praise magnitude.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
Contrary to the common assumption that ancient Roman roads were built primarily in straight lines regardless of terrain, recent surveys of surviving road segments show that Roman engineers frequently curved their routes to follow natural contours when doing so significantly reduced construction difficulty.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Volunteer-run seed libraries, which lend out seeds the way traditional libraries lend books, help preserve genetic diversity among regional plant varieties that commercial seed companies often no longer stock, a benefit frequently cited by advocates seeking municipal support for new seed library branches.
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Which choice best defines “frequent”?
A — Happening often. “frequent” means happening often.
Which word means “happening often”?
D — frequent. “frequent” means happening often.
frequent — happening often. In Chinese: 频繁的，经常的.
frequent is pronounced /ˈfriːkwənt/.
Frequent power outages in the rural region prompted engineers to redesign the electrical grid with redundant backup systems. (该农村地区频繁停电，促使工程师重新设计电网，配备冗余备用系统。)
recurrent, repeated, common — all close in meaning to frequent (happening often).
rare, infrequent — each the opposite of frequent (happening often).
Yes. frequent 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.
fre(often)+quent(appear)