The committee worked for weeks to resolve the dispute over water rights among the three towns.
委员会花了数周时间来解决三个城镇之间的水权争端。
Novelist Amara Osei writes that a good short story must end on a note of ambiguity, trusting readers to resolve the meaning themselves.
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The scientific paper's introduction reviews three prior studies that reached conflicting conclusions about a compound's effectiveness, and the remainder of the paper describes a new experiment designed specifically to resolve that conflict.
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The historian's account of the railway's expansion proceeds strictly by decade from the 1850s to the 1900s, pausing at each decade only to describe major financial crises and how they were resolved.
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Which choice best defines “resolve”?
C — Solve, determination. “resolve” means solve, determination.
Which word means “solve, determination”?
D — resolve. “resolve” means solve, determination.
resolve — solve, determination. In Chinese: 解决，决心.
resolve is pronounced /rɪˈzɑːlv/.
The committee worked for weeks to resolve the dispute over water rights among the three towns. (委员会花了数周时间来解决三个城镇之间的水权争端。)
settle, determination, fortitude — all close in meaning to resolve (solve, determination).
hesitate, indecision — each the opposite of resolve (solve, determination).
Yes. resolve is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. 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)+solve(solve)