Sustainability consultant Rafael Duarte notes that extensive glass facades, while visually striking, are significantly less energy-efficient than more traditional wall materials, requiring substantially more heating and cooling to maintain comfortable interior temperatures.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
Elephants communicate over long distances using infrasound, low-frequency vibrations below the range of human hearing that can travel through the ground and air for several miles, allowing separated herd members to coordinate movement even when far out of visual range.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
A city's traffic engineers found that intersections with audible pedestrian signals had fewer pedestrian injuries among visually impaired residents than similar intersections with only visual walk signals, even though both types of intersections had comparable overall pedestrian foot traffic.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “visual”?
D — Relating to seeing. “visual” means relating to seeing.
Which word means “relating to seeing”?
C — visual. “visual” means relating to seeing.
visual — relating to seeing. In Chinese: 视觉的，看到的.
visual is pronounced /ˈvɪʒuəl/.
Sustainability consultant Rafael Duarte notes that extensive glass facades, while visually striking, are significantly less energy-efficient than more traditional wall materials, requiring substantially more heating and cooling to maintain comfortable interior temperatures.
Yes. visual is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. 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.
vis(see)+ual(shape)