The immense salt flats stretched for hundreds of kilometers, their white surface reflecting the harsh desert sunlight.
巨大的盐滩绵延数百公里,其白色表面反射着沙漠刺眼的阳光。
- As a glacier moves through a valley, its immense weight and slow grinding motion carve a distinctive U-shaped channel deeper than a river could carve alone.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Which choice best defines “immense”?
C — Very large. “immense” means very large.
Which word means “very large”?
B — immense. “immense” means very large.
immense — very large. In Chinese: 巨大的,广大的.
immense is pronounced /ɪˈmens/.
The immense salt flats stretched for hundreds of kilometers, their white surface reflecting the harsh desert sunlight. (巨大的盐滩绵延数百公里,其白色表面反射着沙漠刺眼的阳光。)
vast, enormous, colossal — all close in meaning to immense (very large).
tiny, minute — each the opposite of immense (very large).
Yes. immense 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.
immense(huge)