Recent scholarship complicates this image, revealing instead a shifting web of regional routes, many of which carried goods only a few hundred miles before passing them to the next set of traders.
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Researchers studying a species of sea turtle found that individuals fitted with satellite tags consistently took longer routes to reach their nesting beaches than untagged individuals of the same population, monitored via aerial drone surveys.
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A wildlife biologist tracking a population of urban raccoons found that raccoons living closer to residential trash collection routes had shorter average lifespans than raccoons living in less developed areas farther from such routes, despite having easier access to food overall.
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Which choice best defines “rout”?
C — A disorderly retreat; a crushing defeat.. “rout” means A disorderly retreat; a crushing defeat..
Which word means “A disorderly retreat; a crushing defeat.”?
D — rout. “rout” means A disorderly retreat; a crushing defeat..
rout — A disorderly retreat; a crushing defeat.. In Chinese: 溃败；击溃.
rout is pronounced //raʊt//.
Recent scholarship complicates this image, revealing instead a shifting web of regional routes, many of which carried goods only a few hundred miles before passing them to the next set of traders.
Yes. rout 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.
rout → 打得溃不成军。