Her vivid description of the ancient marketplace allowed the students to imagine the bustling trade in detail.
她对古代市场的生动描述让学生们能够详细想象出繁忙的贸易景象。
The essay opens with a vivid anecdote about a single honeybee lost from its hive.
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The essay opens with a vivid description of a single monarch butterfly navigating a highway overpass, then zooms out to discuss the species' entire migratory route from Canada to Mexico, and finally returns to that same overpass to describe conservation efforts underway there.
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A profile of an inventor opens by describing her decades of failed prototypes in vivid detail, then spends its remaining sections explaining how those very failures directly informed the design choices behind her eventual successful invention.
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Which choice best defines “vivid”?
A — Bright, clear. “vivid” means bright, clear.
Which word means “bright, clear”?
B — vivid. “vivid” means bright, clear.
vivid — bright, clear. In Chinese: 鲜明的，生动的.
vivid is pronounced /ˈvɪvɪd/.
Her vivid description of the ancient marketplace allowed the students to imagine the bustling trade in detail. (她对古代市场的生动描述让学生们能够详细想象出繁忙的贸易景象。)
bright, graphic, luminous — all close in meaning to vivid (bright, clear).
dull, vague — each the opposite of vivid (bright, clear).
Yes. vivid 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.
viv(life)+id(form)