Her scholarly monograph on ancient navigation techniques drew on newly deciphered maritime logs from the Mediterranean.
她关于古代航海技术的学术专著引用了新破译的地中海航海日志。
Contrary to the popular image of medieval Europe as uniformly illiterate, recent research into surviving merchant ledgers and personal letters suggests that basic literacy was more widespread among urban tradespeople than previously believed, even if formal, Latin-based scholarly literacy remained rare.
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Which choice best defines “scholarly”?
C — Involving or relating to serious academic study. “scholarly” means involving or relating to serious academic study.
Which word means “involving or relating to serious academic study”?
D — scholarly. “scholarly” means involving or relating to serious academic study.
scholarly — involving or relating to serious academic study. In Chinese: 学术的.
scholarly is pronounced /ˈskɒlərli/.
Her scholarly monograph on ancient navigation techniques drew on newly deciphered maritime logs from the Mediterranean. (她关于古代航海技术的学术专著引用了新破译的地中海航海日志。)
academic, erudite, intellectual — all close in meaning to scholarly (involving or relating to serious academic study).
popular, superficial — each the opposite of scholarly (involving or relating to serious academic study).
Yes. scholarly 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.