英语词汇“invigilate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Invigilate means to watch over the administration of a test to ensure that no cheating occurs.You won't see invigilate used often but when you do, think about bubbling answer sheets and keeping your eyes on your own paper.

Don't confuse this word with interrogate. The two words sound similar but occupy different grammatical positions within a sentence. You interrogate a person, meaning you ask them questions, but you invigilate a test, meaning you watch its administration. You don't invigilate a test-taker, even if they are the ones whom you, as a test's invigilator, want to interrogate when your suspicions of cheating are aroused. The word derives from the Latin vigilare, which means "to watch over."

VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT

Know What it Means to "Invigilate" a Test?

Writing about an opt-out testing movement brewing in her children's elementary school (and elsewhere), New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead used the highly-specific invigilate when she wrote:

Teachers invigilating the exams were shocked by ambiguous test questions, based, as they saw it, on false premises and wrongheaded educational principles.

That invigilate's so rare may seem surprising given that it describes a phenomenon taking place in thousands of schools and classrooms around the world at every minute of every day. The word means "watch over students taking a test to prevent cheating." (You morphology fans had probably already inferred that it had something to do with "watching over" as the Latin vigilare means just that.)

So why is invigilate so unusual? First, there's a British English/American English divide, with Americans more likely to use proctor. (See Separated by a Common Language's take on this here.) But maybe the fault also lies with the word's specificity. Like a single-purpose kitchen tool (think: melon baller) assigned to the trash heap while a multipurpose tool that performs the same task less well (think: knife) continues to earn its spot in the drawer, invigilate is jettisoned in favor of more general synonyms proctor and monitor.

A quick look at the frequency-checker located on every word's Vocabulary.com Dictionary definition pages show us how far up on the endangered species list invigilate really is. Compare invigilate with test, which appears once in every 69 pages, monitor, which appears once every 1,807 pages, and proctor, which you can expect to encounter every 3,198 pages.

You can expect to see invigilate once in every 11,819,311 pages of text. That's nearly 3,700 times less often than you'll see proctor. Or to put it in different terms: You could read 8,207 novels the length of War and Peace before you could expect to encounter this word.

But, hey, you just saw it here. Which means today's your day for long odds. Go out and buy a lottery ticket.

WORD FAMILY

invigilate: invigilated, invigilating, invigilation

USAGE EXAMPLES

It sets extra tests, which schools must invigilate.

Economist(Dec 08, 2016)

And I said, “But I have to go because it’s been arranged and the Reverend Peters is going to invigilate.”

Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in...(2003)

He said that he was more confident than many conventional students taking the exam, which was invigilated in Kenya by the British Council.

BBC(Aug 15, 2014)

v watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)

Syn|Hyper

proctor

follow, keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over

follow with the eyes or the mind

单词	invigilate
释义	invigilate (once / 2363863 pages) v Invigilate means to watch over the administration of a test to ensure that no cheating occurs.You won't see invigilate used often but when you do, think about bubbling answer sheets and keeping your eyes on your own paper. Don't confuse this word with interrogate. The two words sound similar but occupy different grammatical positions within a sentence. You interrogate a person, meaning you ask them questions, but you invigilate a test, meaning you watch its administration. You don't invigilate a test-taker, even if they are the ones whom you, as a test's invigilator, want to interrogate when your suspicions of cheating are aroused. The word derives from the Latin vigilare, which means "to watch over." VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT Know What it Means to "Invigilate" a Test? Writing about an opt-out testing movement brewing in her children's elementary school (and elsewhere), New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead used the highly-specific invigilate when she wrote: Teachers invigilating the exams were shocked by ambiguous test questions, based, as they saw it, on false premises and wrongheaded educational principles. That invigilate's so rare may seem surprising given that it describes a phenomenon taking place in thousands of schools and classrooms around the world at every minute of every day. The word means "watch over students taking a test to prevent cheating." (You morphology fans had probably already inferred that it had something to do with "watching over" as the Latin vigilare means just that.) So why is invigilate so unusual? First, there's a British English/American English divide, with Americans more likely to use proctor. (See Separated by a Common Language's take on this here.) But maybe the fault also lies with the word's specificity. Like a single-purpose kitchen tool (think: melon baller) assigned to the trash heap while a multipurpose tool that performs the same task less well (think: knife) continues to earn its spot in the drawer, invigilate is jettisoned in favor of more general synonyms proctor and monitor. A quick look at the frequency-checker located on every word's Vocabulary.com Dictionary definition pages show us how far up on the endangered species list invigilate really is. Compare invigilate with test, which appears once in every 69 pages, monitor, which appears once every 1,807 pages, and proctor, which you can expect to encounter every 3,198 pages. You can expect to see invigilate once in every 11,819,311 pages of text. That's nearly 3,700 times less often than you'll see proctor. Or to put it in different terms: You could read 8,207 novels the length of War and Peace before you could expect to encounter this word. But, hey, you just saw it here. Which means today's your day for long odds. Go out and buy a lottery ticket. WORD FAMILY invigilate: invigilated, invigilating, invigilation USAGE EXAMPLES It sets extra tests, which schools must invigilate. Economist(Dec 08, 2016) And I said, “But I have to go because it’s been arranged and the Reverend Peters is going to invigilate.” Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in...(2003) He said that he was more confident than many conventional students taking the exam, which was invigilated in Kenya by the British Council. BBC(Aug 15, 2014) v watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) Syn\|Hyper proctor follow, keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over follow with the eyes or the mind
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