The quaint hand-drawn diagrams now look naive, yet they convey the mechanism more clearly than the software renderings that replaced them.
那些古雅的手绘图如今看来稚拙,却比取代它们的软件渲染图更清楚地说明了机理。
Which choice best defines “quaint”?
B — Attractively old-fashioned.. “quaint” means Attractively old-fashioned..
Which word means “Attractively old-fashioned.”?
D — quaint. “quaint” means Attractively old-fashioned..
quaint — Attractively old-fashioned.. In Chinese: 古雅的;别致的;离奇有趣的.
quaint is pronounced //kweɪnt//.
The quaint hand-drawn diagrams now look naive, yet they convey the mechanism more clearly than the software renderings that replaced them. (那些古雅的手绘图如今看来稚拙,却比取代它们的软件渲染图更清楚地说明了机理。)
charming, old-fashioned, picturesque — all close in meaning to quaint (Attractively old-fashioned.).
modern, ordinary — each the opposite of quaint (Attractively old-fashioned.).
Yes. quaint is on the SAT Prep Difficult list — the higher-register words that decide the hard questions. 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.
联想 quaint→古董店的 quality → 古色古香 → 古雅别致。