The editor's nitpicking over comma placement delayed the manuscript's publication by several weeks.
编辑对逗号位置的吹毛求疵使手稿的出版推迟了数周。
Which choice best defines “nitpicking”?
A — The act of looking for small or unimportant errors or faults. “nitpicking” means the act of looking for small or unimportant errors or faults.
Which word means “the act of looking for small or unimportant errors or faults”?
A — nitpicking. “nitpicking” means the act of looking for small or unimportant errors or faults.
nitpicking — the act of looking for small or unimportant errors or faults. In Chinese: 吹毛求疵.
nitpicking is pronounced /ˈnɪtpɪkɪŋ/.
The editor's nitpicking over comma placement delayed the manuscript's publication by several weeks. (编辑对逗号位置的吹毛求疵使手稿的出版推迟了数周。)
fault-finding, caviling, quibbling — all close in meaning to nitpicking (the act of looking for small or unimportant errors or faults).
praise, approval — each the opposite of nitpicking (the act of looking for small or unimportant errors or faults).
Yes. nitpicking 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.