The scarcity of clean drinking water in arid regions forces communities to invest in expensive desalination plants.
干旱地区清洁饮用水的稀缺迫使社区投资昂贵的海水淡化厂。
Which choice best defines “scarcity”?
C — A situation in which something is not easy to find or get. “scarcity” means a situation in which something is not easy to find or get.
Which word means “a situation in which something is not easy to find or get”?
D — scarcity. “scarcity” means a situation in which something is not easy to find or get.
scarcity — a situation in which something is not easy to find or get. In Chinese: 稀缺，缺乏.
scarcity is pronounced /ˈskɛrsəti/.
The scarcity of clean drinking water in arid regions forces communities to invest in expensive desalination plants. (干旱地区清洁饮用水的稀缺迫使社区投资昂贵的海水淡化厂。)
shortage, dearth, paucity — all close in meaning to scarcity (a situation in which something is not easy to find or get).
abundance, plenty — each the opposite of scarcity (a situation in which something is not easy to find or get).
Yes. scarcity 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.