SAT 单词表.docx

SAT WORD LIST (A)abandon: total lack of inhibitionabate: to decrease, to reduceabet: to aid; to act as an accompliceabjure: to renounce under oath; to abandon forever; to abstain fromabnegate: to give up; to deny to oneselfabortive: ending without resultsabrogate: to annul; to abolish by authoritative actionabscond: to leave quickly in secretabstemious: done sparingly; consuming in moderationaccede: to express approval, to agree toacclivity: an incline or upward slope; the ascending side of a hillaccretion: a growth in size, an increase in amountacme: the highest level or degree attainableactuate: to put into motion, to activate; to motivate or influence to activityacuity: sharp vision or perception characterized by the ability to resolve fine detailacumen: sharpness of insight, mind, and understanding; shrewd judgmentadamant: stubbornly unyieldingadept: extremely skilledadjudicate: to hear and settle a matter; to act as a judgeadjure: to appeal toadmonish: to caution or warn gently in order to correct sthadroit: skillful; accomplished; highly competentadulation: excessive flattery or admirationadumbrate: to give a hint or indication of sth to comeaerie: a nest built high in the air; an elevated, often secluded, dwellingaffected: phony, artificialaggregate: a collective mass, the sum totalalgorithm: an established procedure for solving a problem or equationalimentary: pertaining to food, nutrition, or digestionallay: to lessen, ease, reduce in intensityamity: friendship, good willamorphous: having no definitive formanimus: a feeling of animosity or ill willanodyne: a source of comfort; a medicine that relieves painanomaly: a deviation from the common rule, sth that is difficult to classifyanthropomorphic: suggesting human characteristics for animals and inanimate thingsantiquated: too old to be fashionable or usefulaphorism: a short statement of a principleaplomb: self-confident assurance; poiseapostate: one who renounces a religious faithapposite: strikingly appropriate or well adaptedapprise: to give notice to , informappropriate: to assign to a particular purpose; allocatearable: suitable for cultivationarcane: secret, obscure; known only to a fewarchipelago: a large group of islandsarrears: unpaid, overdue debts or bills; neglected obligationsarrogate: to claim without justification; to claim for oneself without rightaskance: with disapproval; with a skeptical sideways glanceassent: to agree, as to a proposalatavistic: characteristic of a former era; ancientautocrat: a dictatoraver: to declare to be true, to affirmavuncular: like an uncle in behavior, especially in kindness and warmthawry: crooked, askew, amissSAT WORD LIST (B)balk: to stop short and refuse to go onballast: a structure that helps to stabilize or steadybeatific: displaying calmness and joy, relating to a state of celestial happinessbecalm: to stop the progress of, to soothebecloud: to make less visible, obscure, or blurbedraggle: soiled, wet and limp; dilapidatedbeget: to produce, especially as an effort or outgrowth; to bring aboutbehemoth: sth of monstrous size or power; huge creaturebeneficent: pertaining to an act of kindnessberate: to scold harshlybilious: ill-tempered, sickly, ailingblasphemous: cursing, profane; extremely irreverentblatant: completely obvious and conspicuous, especially in an offensive, crass mannerblithely: merrily, lightheartedly cheerful; without appropriate thoughtbombastic: high-sounding but meaningless; ostentatiously lofty in stylebovine: relating to cows; having qualities characteristic of a cow, such as sluggishness or dullnessbraggart: a person who brags or boasts in a loud and empty mannerbroach: to mention or suggest for the first timebucolic: pastoral, ruralburnish: to polish; to make smooth and brightbursar: a treasurer or keeper of fundsSAT WORD LIST (C)cache: a hiding place; stockpilecacophony: a jarring, unpleasant noisecalumny: a false and malicious accusation; misrepresentationcantankerous: having a difficult, uncooperative, or stubborn dispositioncaptious: marked by the tendency to point out trivial faults; intended to confuse in an argumentcataclysmic: severely destructivecatalyst: sth that provokes or speeds up significant change, especially without being affected by the consequencescaucus: a closed committee within a political party; a private committee meetingcede: to surrender possession of sthcelerity: speed, hastecensorious: critical; tending to blame and condemncertitude: assurance, freedom from doubtcessation: a temporary or complete haltchary: watchful, cautious; extremely shychimerical: fanciful; imaginary, impossiblecircuitous: indirect, roundaboutcircumvent: to go around; avoidcloying: sickly sweet; excessivecoagulate: to clot; to cause to thickencogent: logically forceful; compelling, convincingcolloquial: characteristic of informal speechcommute: to change a penalty to a less severe onecomplacent: self-satisfied, smugcompliant: submissive, yieldingconcomitant: existing concurrentlyconcord: agreementcondole: to grieve; to express sympathyconflagration: big, destructive fireconfluence: the act of two things flowing together; the junction or meeting place where two things meetconsanguineous: having the same lineage or ancestry; related by bloodconsternation: an intense state of fear or dismayconstraint: sth that restricts or confines within prescribed boundscontemptuous: scornful; expressing contemptcontentious: quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerentcontiguous: sharing a boundary; neighboringcontinence: self-control, self-restraintconvalesce: to recover gradually from an illnessconvergence: the state of separate elements joining or coming togethercoquette: a flirtatious womancoterie: an intimate group of person with a similar purposecountervail: to act or react with equal forcecovert: secretive; not openly showncull: to select, weed outcumulative: increasing collectivecurt: abrupt, short with wordsSAT WORD LIST (D)dearth: a lack, scarcity, insufficiencydebacle: a sudden, disastrous collapse or defeat; a total, ridiculous failuredeclaim: to speak loudly and vehementlydefamatory: injurious to the reputationdemagogue: a leader, rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudicedenizen: an inhabitant, a residentderide: to laugh at contemptuously, to make fun ofdiffuse: to spread out widely, to scatter freely, to disseminatedigress: to turn aside, esp from the main point; to stray from the subjectdilapidated: in disrepair, run downdiluvial: pertaining to a flooddiscomfit: to disconcert, to make one lose ones composurediscrete: individuality distinct, separatedisingenuous: giving a false appearance of simple frankness; misleadingdisinterested: fair-minded, unbiaseddispassionate: unaffected by bias or strong emotions; not personally or emotionally involved indissident: disagreeing with a established religious or political systemdoctrinaire: rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmaticdogged: stubbornly perseveringdoleful: sad, mournfuldour: sullen and gloomy; stern and severeSAT WORD LIST (E)effluvia: waste; odorous fumes given off by wasteelegy: a mournful poem, usually about the deadelude: to avoid cleverly, to escape the perception of emollient: soothing, esp to the skinemulate: to strive to equal or excel, to imitateencumber: to weigh down, to burdenenjoin: to direct or impose with urgent appeal, to order with emphasis; to forbidepochal: momentous, highly significanteponymous: giving ones name to a place, book, restaurantequivocate: to avoid committing oneself in what one says, to be deliberately unclearersatz: being an artificial and inferior substitute or imitationeschew: to shun; to avoid (as sth wrong or distasteful)espouse: to take up and support as a cause; to marryespy: to catch sight of , glimpseeuphemism: an inoffensive and agreeable expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensiveexcoriate: to censure scathingly; to express strong disapproval ofexponent: one who champions or advocatesexpound: to explain or describe in detailexpunge: to erase, eliminate completelyextirpate: to root out, eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy whollyextrapolation: using known data and information to determine what will happen in the future, predictionextrinsic: external, unessential; originating from the outsideextrude: to form or shape sth by pushing it out, to force out, esp through a small opening 8月9日SAT WORD LIST (F)facetious: witty, humorousfacile: easily accomplished; seeming to lack sincerity or depth; arrived at without due effortfallacious: tending to deceive or mislead; based on a fallacyfebrile: feverish, marked by intense emotion or activityfeckless: ineffective, worthlessfeign: to pretend, to give a false appearance offeral: suggestive of a wild beast, not domesticatedfictive: fictional, relating to imaginative creationfilibuster: to use obstructionist tactics, esp prolonged speech making, in order to delay sthfitful: intermittent, lacking steadiness; characterized by irregular bursts of activityflippant: marked by disrespectful lighthearted or casualnessflout: to scorn, to disregard with contemptfodder: raw material, as for artistic creation, readily abundant ideas or imagesforego: to precede, to go ahead of forgo: to do without, to abstain formformidable: fearsome, daunting; tending to inspire awe or wonderfortitude: strength of mind that allows one to encounter adversity with couragefortuitous: by chance, esp by favorable chancefrenetic: frantic, frenziedfulsome: abundant; flattering in an insincere wayfurlough: a leave of absence, esp granted to soldier or a prisonerfurtive: sly, with hidden motivesSAT WORD LIST(G-H)galvanize: to shock; to arouse awarenessgamely: spiritedly, bravelygauche: lacking social refinementgrandiloquence: pompous talk; fancy but meaningless languagegregarious: outgoing, sociablegrotto: a small caveharangue: to give a long speechhedonist: one who pursues pleasure as a goalhegemony: the domination of one state or group over its alliesheretical: departing from acceptable beliefs or standards, oppositionalhiatus: a gap or interruption in space, time or continuityhistrionics: deliberate display of emotion for effect; exaggerated behavior calculated for effecthubris: excessive pride or self-confidencehusband: to manage economically; to use sparinglyhypocrite: one who puts on a false appearance of virtue; one who criticizes a flaw he in fact possessesSAT WORD LIST (I-K)ignoble: having low moral standards, not noble in character; meanillusory: producing illusion, deceptiveimbibe: to receive into the mind and take in, absorbimpassive: absent of any external sign or emotion, expressionlessimperious: commanding, domineering; urgentimperturbable: unshakably calm and steadyimplacable: inflexible; not capable of being changed or pacifiedimportunate: troublesomely urgent; extremely persistent in request or demandimprecation: a curseimpudent: marked by cocky boldness or disregard for othersimpugn: to call into question; to attack verballyimpute: to lay the responsibility or blame for, often unjustlyincandescent: shining brightlyincarnadine: red, esp blood redinchoate: being only partly in existence; imperfectly formedincipient: beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stageincorrigible: incapable of being corrected or amended; difficult to control or manageincredulous: unwilling to accept what is true; skepticalindomitable: incapable of being conqueredingratiate: to gain favor with another by deliberate effort, to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantageinherent: involving the essential character of sth, built-in, inborninquest: an investigation, an inquiryinsensate: lacking sensibility and understanding, foolishinsolent: insultingly arrogant, overbearinginsular: characteristic of an isolated people, esp having a narrow viewpointinsuperable: incapable of being surmounted or overcomeinter: to buryinterlocutor: ones who takes part in conversationinternecine: mutually destructive; equally devastating to both sidesinterregnum: a temporary halting of the usual operations of government or controlintimation: a subtle and indirect hintintractable: not easily managed or manipulatedintransigent: uncompromising, refusing to abandon an extreme positionintrepid: fearless, resolutely courageousinundate: to cover with a flood; to overwhelm as if with a floodinveterate: firmly established, esp with respect to a habit or attitudeirascible: easily angered, hot-temperedironic: poignantly contrary to what was expected or intendedirreverent: disrespectful in a gentle or humorous wayitinerant: wandering from place to place; unsettledjettison: to discard, to get rid of as unnecessary or encumberingjocular: playful; humorousjunta: a small governing body, esp after a revolutionary seizure of powerkismet: destiny, fateSAT WORD LIST(L)lampoon: to ridicule with satirelargess: generous giving (as of money) to others who may seem inferiorlaudable: deserving of praiselax: not rigid, loose; negligentlecherous: lewd, lustfullevity: an inappropriate lack of seriousness, overly casuallexicon: a dictionary, a stock of terms pertaining to a particular subject or vocabularylibertarian: one who advocates individual rights and free willlibertine: a free thinker, usually used disparagingly; one without moral restraintlicentious: immoral; unrestrained by societylilliputian: very smalllimber: flexible, capable of being shapedlithe: moving and bending with ease; marked by effortless graceloquacious: talkativeSAT WORD LIST (N-O)nebulous: vague, undefinednecromancy: the practice of communicating with the dead in order t predict the futurenefarious: intensely wicked or viciousneonate: a newborn childnihilism: belief that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is uselessnomenclature: a system of scientific namesnon sequitur: a statement that does not follow logically from anything previously saidnovel: new and not resembling anything formerly knownobdurate: stubbornly persistent, resistant to persuasionobfuscate: to confuse, make obscureobstinate: unreasonably persistentolfactory: relating to the sense of smelloligarchy: a government in which a small group exercises supreme controlonus: a burden, an obligationopine: to express an opinionopportunist: one who takes advantage of any opportunity to achieve an end, with little regard for principlesopprobrious: disgraceful, shamefulornery: having an irritable disposition, cantankerousoscillate: to swing back and forth like a pendulum; to vary between opposing beliefs or feelingsossify: to change into bone; to become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional patternostracize: to exclude from a group by common consentoust: to remove from position by force; eject0:32| 添加评论| 固定链接| 写入日志8月17日SAT WORD LIST(M)macabre: having death as a subject; dwelling on the gruesomemacrocosm: the whole universe; a large-scale reflecting of a part of the greater worldmalaise: a feeling of unease or depressionmalapropism: the accidental, often comical, use of a word which resemble the one intended, but has a different, often contradictory meaningmalediction: a curse, a wish of evil upon another malevolent: exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to othersmalfeasance: wrongdoing or misconduct, esp by a public officialmalleable: easily influenced or shaped, capable of being altered by outside forcesmannered: artificial or stilted in charactermasochist: one who enjoys being subjected to pain or humiliationmaverick: an independent individual who does not go along with a groupmawkish: sickeningly sentimentalmegalomania: obsession with great or grandiose performancemellifluous: having a smooth, rich flowmicrocosm: a small scale representation of a larger systemmilieu: the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops, environmentmisanthrope: a person who hates or distrusts mankindmisnomer: an error in naming a person or a placemissive: a written note or lettermitigate: to make less severe, make mildermodicum: a small portion, limited quantitymollify: to soothe in temper or dispositionmordant: biting and caustic in manner and stylemores: fixed customs or manners; moral attitudesmorose: gloomy, sullenmote: a small particle, speckmutability: the quality of being capable of change, in form or character; susceptibility of changemyopic: lacking foresight, having a narrow view or long-range perspectiveSAT WORD LIST (P)paean: a tribute, a song or expression of praisepalatial: relating to a palace; magnificentpalimpsest: an object or place having diverse layers or aspects beneath the surfacepaltry: pitifully small or worthlesspanache: flamboyance or dash in style and actionpandemic: occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting a large portion of the populationpanegyric: elaborate praise; formal hymn of praisepare: to trim off excess, reducepariah: an outcastpatent: obvious, evidentpathogenic: causing diseasepatrician: aristocraticpatronize: to act as patron of, to adopt an air of condescension toward; to bury frompeculate: to embezzlepecuniary: relating to moneypellucid: transparently clear in style or meaning, easy to understandpenchant: an inclination, a definite likingpenitent: expressing sorrow for sins or offenses, repentantpenury: an oppressive lack of reso