During the harvest season, many families invite relatives from distant towns to help gather the crops.
在收获季节，许多家庭邀请远方的亲戚来帮忙收割庄稼。
Political scientist Devon Marsh counters that term limits can increase certain forms of corruption by pushing out experienced officials and handing more relative power to unelected staff and lobbyists who possess institutional knowledge that new officials lack.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
Honeybees communicate the location of food sources to their hive-mates through a series of movements known as the waggle dance, in which the angle and duration of the dance correspond to the direction and distance of the food relative to the sun.
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From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Which choice best defines “relative”?
A — Members of your family. “relative” means members of your family.
Which word means “members of your family”?
A — relative. “relative” means members of your family.
relative — members of your family. In Chinese: 亲戚，亲属.
relative is pronounced /ˈrɛlətɪv/.
During the harvest season, many families invite relatives from distant towns to help gather the crops. (在收获季节，许多家庭邀请远方的亲戚来帮忙收割庄稼。)
family member, kin, relation — all close in meaning to relative (members of your family).
Yes. relative 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.