Travelers described the glacier as sublime, a word they reserved for landscapes that made them feel small.
旅行者称这座冰川壮丽崇高——这个词他们只留给那些令人自觉渺小的景观。
Which choice best defines “sublime”?
D — Excellent, grand, inspiring. “sublime” means excellent, grand, inspiring.
Which word means “excellent, grand, inspiring”?
D — sublime. “sublime” means excellent, grand, inspiring.
sublime — excellent, grand, inspiring. In Chinese: 崇高的，壮观的.
sublime is pronounced /səˈblaɪm/.
Travelers described the glacier as sublime, a word they reserved for landscapes that made them feel small. (旅行者称这座冰川壮丽崇高——这个词他们只留给那些令人自觉渺小的景观。)
majestic, awe-inspiring, exalted — all close in meaning to sublime (excellent, grand, inspiring).
ordinary, banal — each the opposite of sublime (excellent, grand, inspiring).
Yes. sublime 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.
sublime(noble)