The new library's spacious reading room, with its high ceilings and tall windows, accommodates hundreds of students without feeling crowded.
新图书馆宽敞的阅览室,天花板很高,窗户很大,能容纳数百名学生而不显得拥挤。
The opening chapter of the memoir describes a cramped, chaotic family kitchen; that same kitchen reappears in the final chapter, now calm and spacious, after the author's family has moved into a larger home.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “spacious”?
A — Large, roomy. “spacious” means large, roomy.
Which word means “large, roomy”?
D — spacious. “spacious” means large, roomy.
spacious — large, roomy. In Chinese: 宽敞的.
spacious is pronounced /ˈspeɪʃəs/.
The new library's spacious reading room, with its high ceilings and tall windows, accommodates hundreds of students without feeling crowded. (新图书馆宽敞的阅览室,天花板很高,窗户很大,能容纳数百名学生而不显得拥挤。)
roomy, ample, capacious — all close in meaning to spacious (large, roomy).
cramped, confined — each the opposite of spacious (large, roomy).
Yes. spacious 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.
space (space)+ous (many).