Thick fog stymied the aerial survey, and the team spent the week calibrating instruments instead.
浓雾阻碍了航空勘测，团队只好用那一周校准仪器。
Which choice best defines “stymie”?
D — To block or thwart.. “stymie” means To block or thwart..
Which word means “To block or thwart.”?
B — stymie. “stymie” means To block or thwart..
stymie — To block or thwart.. In Chinese: 阻挠；妨碍.
stymie is pronounced //ˈstaɪmi//.
Thick fog stymied the aerial survey, and the team spent the week calibrating instruments instead. (浓雾阻碍了航空勘测，团队只好用那一周校准仪器。)
thwart, hinder, obstruct — all close in meaning to stymie (To block or thwart.).
assist, facilitate — each the opposite of stymie (To block or thwart.).
Yes. stymie is on the SAT Prep Difficult list — the higher-register words that decide the hard questions. 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.
stymie → 卡住不让过。