As the freight train passed, a low rumble vibrated through the station platform and into the surrounding buildings.
货运列车经过时，低沉的隆隆声震动着站台并传入周围建筑。
A civil engineer claims that adding rumble strips along a rural highway's shoulder reduced the number of run-off-road accidents specifically caused by driver drowsiness.
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Which choice best defines “rumble”?
D — Make a deep sound. “rumble” means make a deep sound.
Which word means “make a deep sound”?
D — rumble. “rumble” means make a deep sound.
rumble — make a deep sound. In Chinese: 隆隆响，轰鸣.
rumble is pronounced /ˈrʌmbl/.
As the freight train passed, a low rumble vibrated through the station platform and into the surrounding buildings. (货运列车经过时，低沉的隆隆声震动着站台并传入周围建筑。)
grumble, thunder, roar — all close in meaning to rumble (make a deep sound).
silence, stillness — each the opposite of rumble (make a deep sound).
Yes. rumble 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.
rumble(roar, rumbling)