The historian recounted the explorer's arduous journey across the desert, detailing each hardship and discovery.
历史学家详细叙述了探险家穿越沙漠的艰辛旅程，描述了每一个困难和发现。
A profile of a jazz musician opens mid-performance, describing the tension in a concert hall moments before a solo, then flashes back to recount the musician's childhood training before returning to the concert for its conclusion.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
A profile of a surgeon opens mid-operation, describing the tense atmosphere of the operating room moments before a critical incision, then flashes back to recount her training decades earlier before returning to the operating room for the profile's conclusion.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
A folklorist studying an oral storytelling tradition found that tellers under the age of 35 could recount only about a third as many traditional proverbs as tellers over 65, even though both groups had grown up in the same village and were considered fluent, skilled storytellers by community elders.
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Which choice best defines “recount”?
D — Tell a story, enumerate. “recount” means tell a story, enumerate.
Which word means “tell a story, enumerate”?
A — recount. “recount” means tell a story, enumerate.
recount — tell a story, enumerate. In Chinese: 叙述，详细描述.
recount is pronounced /rɪˈkaʊnt/.
The historian recounted the explorer's arduous journey across the desert, detailing each hardship and discovery. (历史学家详细叙述了探险家穿越沙漠的艰辛旅程，描述了每一个困难和发现。)
narrate, relate, describe — all close in meaning to recount (tell a story, enumerate).
suppress, omit — each the opposite of recount (tell a story, enumerate).
Yes. recount 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.
re(again)+count(number).