The community expressed sympathy for the farmers whose orchards had been destroyed by the early frost.
社区对果园被早霜摧毁的农民表达了同情。
Which choice best defines “sympathy”?
D — Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. “sympathy” means feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
Which word means “feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune”?
B — sympathy. “sympathy” means feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
sympathy — feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. In Chinese: 同情.
sympathy is pronounced /ˈsɪmpəθi/.
The community expressed sympathy for the farmers whose orchards had been destroyed by the early frost. (社区对果园被早霜摧毁的农民表达了同情。)
compassion, pity, empathy — all close in meaning to sympathy (feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune).
indifference, antipathy — each the opposite of sympathy (feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune).
Yes. sympathy 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.