During the summer heatwave, the lack of air conditioning made the indoor temperature unbearable for the museum's staff.
在夏季热浪期间，缺乏空调使博物馆室内的温度对工作人员来说无法忍受。
Which choice best defines “unbearable”?
C — Too unpleasant or painful to deal with. “unbearable” means too unpleasant or painful to deal with.
Which word means “too unpleasant or painful to deal with”?
D — unbearable. “unbearable” means too unpleasant or painful to deal with.
unbearable — too unpleasant or painful to deal with. In Chinese: 无法忍受的.
unbearable is pronounced /ʌnˈbeərəbl/.
During the summer heatwave, the lack of air conditioning made the indoor temperature unbearable for the museum's staff. (在夏季热浪期间，缺乏空调使博物馆室内的温度对工作人员来说无法忍受。)
intolerable, insufferable, unendurable — all close in meaning to unbearable (too unpleasant or painful to deal with).
bearable, tolerable — each the opposite of unbearable (too unpleasant or painful to deal with).
Yes. unbearable 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.