Using the stars and ocean currents, ancient Polynesian sailors could navigate vast distances across the Pacific without modern instruments.
借助星星和洋流，古代波利尼西亚水手无需现代仪器就能在太平洋上远距离航行。
The essay opens with a vivid description of a single monarch butterfly navigating a highway overpass, then zooms out to discuss the species' entire migratory route from Canada to Mexico, and finally returns to that same overpass to describe conservation efforts underway there.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Researchers studying a species of migratory salmon found that individuals fitted with small tracking chips consistently took longer to navigate a series of upstream obstacles than untagged individuals of the same population, monitored via underwater cameras.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
- The dung beetle navigates in straight lines across open terrain by orienting itself using the Milky Way.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Which choice best defines “navigate”?
A — Direct course, find way. “navigate” means direct course, find way.
Which word means “direct course, find way”?
D — navigate. “navigate” means direct course, find way.
navigate — direct course, find way. In Chinese: 导航，航行.
navigate is pronounced /ˈnævɪɡeɪt/.
Using the stars and ocean currents, ancient Polynesian sailors could navigate vast distances across the Pacific without modern instruments. (借助星星和洋流，古代波利尼西亚水手无需现代仪器就能在太平洋上远距离航行。)
steer, guide, traverse — all close in meaning to navigate (direct course, find way).
drift, wander — each the opposite of navigate (direct course, find way).
Yes. navigate 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.
nav(ship, sailing)+igate.