Certain deep-sea creatures have transparent bodies resembling glass, an adaptation that helps them evade predators.
某些深海生物拥有类似玻璃的透明身体，这是一种帮助它们躲避捕食者的适应。
- It emits a smell resembling rotting flesh to attract carrion-feeding insects as pollinators.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Which choice best defines “resembling”?
B — Looking or being like someone or something. “resembling” means looking or being like someone or something.
Which word means “looking or being like someone or something”?
C — resembling. “resembling” means looking or being like someone or something.
resembling — looking or being like someone or something. In Chinese: 类似，像.
resembling is pronounced /rɪˈzɛmblɪŋ/.
Certain deep-sea creatures have transparent bodies resembling glass, an adaptation that helps them evade predators. (某些深海生物拥有类似玻璃的透明身体，这是一种帮助它们躲避捕食者的适应。)
similar to, akin to, like — all close in meaning to resembling (looking or being like someone or something).
differing from, unlike — each the opposite of resembling (looking or being like someone or something).
Yes. resembling 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.