Her interest in marine biology grew after volunteering at the aquarium's research lab.
在海洋馆研究实验室做志愿者后，她对海洋生物学的兴趣增长了。
While gift-giving is often assumed to strengthen relationships regardless of the gift's cost, several studies have found that thoughtfulness—how well a gift reflects the recipient's specific interests—predicts recipient satisfaction far more strongly than the gift's monetary value does.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
The economist's argument unfolds through a series of simplified hypothetical households, each one adding a single new variable—savings rate, then debt level, then access to credit—to isolate how each factor individually affects a household's response to an interest rate change.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “interest”?
A — A feeling of wanting to learn more about something or to be involved in something. “interest” means a feeling of wanting to learn more about something or to be involved in something.
Which word means “a feeling of wanting to learn more about something or to be involved in something”?
D — interest. “interest” means a feeling of wanting to learn more about something or to be involved in something.
interest — a feeling of wanting to learn more about something or to be involved in something. In Chinese: 兴趣，爱好.
interest is pronounced /ˈɪntrəst/.
Her interest in marine biology grew after volunteering at the aquarium's research lab. (在海洋馆研究实验室做志愿者后，她对海洋生物学的兴趣增长了。)
curiosity, fascination, concern — all close in meaning to interest (a feeling of wanting to learn more about something or to be involved in something).
indifference, apathy — each the opposite of interest (a feeling of wanting to learn more about something or to be involved in something).
Yes. interest 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.