Preparing for the final science fair proved stressful for the students, as they balanced experiments with tight deadlines.
准备最终科学展对学生来说压力很大，因为他们要在实验和紧迫的截止日期之间平衡。
While tipping in restaurants is often assumed to be primarily a reward for attentive service, several studies have found that a customer's own mood upon arrival—shaped by factors like traffic on the drive over or an earlier stressful meeting—predicts tip size more strongly than measured service quality does.
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Which choice best defines “stressful”?
B — Causing stress or tension. “stressful” means causing stress or tension.
Which word means “causing stress or tension”?
D — stressful. “stressful” means causing stress or tension.
stressful — causing stress or tension. In Chinese: 紧张的，压力大的.
stressful is pronounced /ˈstrɛsfəl/.
Preparing for the final science fair proved stressful for the students, as they balanced experiments with tight deadlines. (准备最终科学展对学生来说压力很大，因为他们要在实验和紧迫的截止日期之间平衡。)
tense, anxious, pressuring — all close in meaning to stressful (causing stress or tension).
relaxing, calm — each the opposite of stressful (causing stress or tension).
Yes. stressful 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.