A sensible approach to managing household finances involves tracking expenses and setting aside savings before discretionary spending.
管理家庭财务的明智方法包括记录支出，并在进行可自由支配的开支前留出储蓄。
A legal scholar's article dedicates its first section to a hypothetical case with clean, uncomplicated facts, then in each following section introduces one additional complicating factor to the same hypothetical, testing whether the scholar's proposed legal principle still produces a sensible outcome.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “sensible”?
D — Having or showing good sense or judgment. “sensible” means having or showing good sense or judgment.
Which word means “having or showing good sense or judgment”?
D — sensible. “sensible” means having or showing good sense or judgment.
sensible — having or showing good sense or judgment. In Chinese: 明智的，合理的.
sensible is pronounced /ˈsɛnsəbl/.
A sensible approach to managing household finances involves tracking expenses and setting aside savings before discretionary spending. (管理家庭财务的明智方法包括记录支出，并在进行可自由支配的开支前留出储蓄。)
prudent, judicious, reasonable — all close in meaning to sensible (having or showing good sense or judgment).
foolish, reckless — each the opposite of sensible (having or showing good sense or judgment).
Yes. sensible 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.