Many unskilled workers in the construction industry receive on-the-job training to master tasks that require precision and safety awareness.
建筑行业许多无技能的工人接受在职培训,以掌握需要精确性和安全意识的技能。
Which choice best defines “unskilled”?
A — Not having or requiring special skill or training. “unskilled” means not having or requiring special skill or training.
Which word means “not having or requiring special skill or training”?
B — unskilled. “unskilled” means not having or requiring special skill or training.
unskilled — not having or requiring special skill or training. In Chinese: 无技能的.
unskilled is pronounced /ʌnˈskɪld/.
Many unskilled workers in the construction industry receive on-the-job training to master tasks that require precision and safety awareness. (建筑行业许多无技能的工人接受在职培训,以掌握需要精确性和安全意识的技能。)
untrained, inexperienced, unqualified — all close in meaning to unskilled (not having or requiring special skill or training).
skilled, expert — each the opposite of unskilled (not having or requiring special skill or training).
Yes. unskilled 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.