fixation - SAT Word

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This word "fixation" often comes up in the SAT. Of the choices below which is the closest in meaning?
engage
abate
fascination
abbreviate




Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'fixation':
  A strong attachment to a person or thing, especially such an attachment formed in childhood or infancy and manifested in immature or neurotic behavior that persists throughout life.
  An obsessive preoccupation.
  The act or process of fixing or fixating.

Synonyms of word 'fixation' :
 obsession
 arrested development
 infantile fixation
 fixing
 regression


Usage of the word 'fixation' in Sentences :
  fixation of fractures is commonly used in many areas of trauma care.
  It may be that the concept of cementless fixation was prematurely condemned on the basis of remediable design flaws.
  fixation disparity.
  These early events have been proposed to be the primary cause of the decline of the nitrogen fixation process under water deficits.
  fixation of the atmospheric nitrogen.
  Followed by bone grafting and percutaneous screw fixation to support joint and graft.
  fixation duration.
  We have mini, small and large fragment sets for plate and screw fixation of fractures.
  We have mini, small and large fragment sets for plate and screw fixation of fractures.
  Testing ideas says he was looking its consequent fixation.
  fixation device made.
  The type of internal fixation used is determined by the complexity of the fracture.
  fixation plate should be moved slightly to prevent adherence.
  Increase in CO 2 does not translate into an increased in carbon fixation in photosynthesis; no increase is likely in the longer term.
  rigid head fixation was achieved by using cast material.
  fixation points which are colored red.
  The enzyme catalyzes the first step in carbon dioxide fixation in these plants and good inhibitors might be effective herbicides.
  For this reason, many orthopedic consultants now favor surgical fixation.
  fixation test in the laboratory.
  Nor is the use of context among the processes that occurs during an initial eye fixation.

Usage of the word 'fixation' in popular media :
Washington Post   —
 "i'm not not sure i fully understand the fixation on privatizing abc," sen..... read more ››
 " aside from a reflexive fixation on gender, she writes well, even amusingly at times, and clearly knows her subject..... read more ››
 it is my professional opinion that mr. gooden has a delusional and abnormal fixation on ms. stone and her property, and that he poses a real security concern, credible threat of violence, and imminent danger to the health and welfare of ms. stone and, potentially, her minor children," dunn wrote..... read more ››

Wall Street Journal   —
 his keen interest in nuclear weapons is the latest in a string of fixations by the 84-year-old mr. castro..... read more ››
 a few decades later, mr. silverblatt's fixation on numbers has stuck..... read more ››
 a former lifeguard and pool cleaner who studied for a master's degree in english, jordan has acknowledged a fixation on thurman that began when he saw her in the 1988 movie "the adventures of baron munchausen.".... read more ››




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