The steel beams provide essential support for the museum's glass roof, allowing it to span a wide open hall.
钢梁为博物馆的玻璃屋顶提供了必要的支撑，使其能够跨越宽敞的大厅。
She is looking for evidence to support this claim.
From a Command of Evidence: Textual question · Information and Ideas
The essay's final paragraph restates, in different words, the same central claim introduced in the first paragraph, this time supported by the evidence presented throughout the body of the essay.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Rock art discovered across the region depicts giraffes, hippopotamuses, and other animals that require significant water sources, evidence that the area supported a much wetter climate and diverse ecosystem thousands of years ago.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “support”?
A — Help, hold up. “support” means help, hold up.
Which word means “help, hold up”?
C — support. “support” means help, hold up.
support — help, hold up. In Chinese: 支持，支撑.
support is pronounced /səˈpɔːrt/.
The steel beams provide essential support for the museum's glass roof, allowing it to span a wide open hall. (钢梁为博物馆的玻璃屋顶提供了必要的支撑，使其能够跨越宽敞的大厅。)
backing, assistance, reinforcement — all close in meaning to support (help, hold up).
opposition, hindrance — each the opposite of support (help, hold up).
Yes. support 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.
sup(down)+port(take)