Heavy rains saturated the hillside, triggering a landslide that buried the narrow mountain road beneath tons of debris.
暴雨浸透了山坡，引发了山体滑坡，将狭窄的山路掩埋在数吨的碎石之下。
Which choice best defines “landslide”?
C — The sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff. “landslide” means the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff.
Which word means “the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff”?
B — landslide. “landslide” means the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff.
landslide — the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff. In Chinese: 山体滑坡.
landslide is pronounced /ˈlændslaɪd/.
Heavy rains saturated the hillside, triggering a landslide that buried the narrow mountain road beneath tons of debris. (暴雨浸透了山坡，引发了山体滑坡，将狭窄的山路掩埋在数吨的碎石之下。)
rockslide, mudslide, avalanche — all close in meaning to landslide (the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff).
Yes. landslide 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.