Barron 3500 SAT List 01-10 From Alex

Question 0

abash

Answer 0

V. /使难堪/embarrass. He was not at all abashed by her open admiration.

Question 1

abase

Answer 1

V. /降低，羞辱/lower; humiliate. Defeated, Queen Zenobia was forced to abase herself before the conquering Romans, who made her march in chains before the emperor in the procession celebrating his triumph. abasement, N.

Question 2

abate

Answer 2

V. /减弱，减少/subside; decrease, lessen. Rather than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate. abatement, N.

Question 3

abbreviate

Answer 3

V. /减短，缩写/shorten. Because we were running out of time, the lecturer had to abbreviate her speech.

Question 4

abdicate

Answer 4

V. /放弃/renounce; give up. When Edward VIII abdicated the British throne to marry the woman he loved, he surprised the entire world.

Question 5

abduction

Answer 5

N. /绑架/kidnapping. The movie Ransom describes the attempts to rescue a multimillionaire’s son after the child’s abduction by kidnappers. abduct, V.

Question 6

aberrant

Answer 6

N. /不正常的/abnormal or deviant. Given the aberrant nature of the data, we doubted the validity of the entire experiment. also N.

Question 7

abet

Answer 7

V. /帮助，鼓励/aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage. She was unwilling to abet him in the swindle he had planned.

Question 8

abeyance

Answer 8

N. /悬而未决/suspended action. The deal was held in abeyance until her arrival.

Question 9

abhor

Answer 9

V. /憎恨/detest; hate. She abhorred all forms of bigotry. abhorrence, N.

Question 10

abject

Answer 10

ADJ. /穷困潦倒，卑微/wretched; lacking pride. On the streets of New York the homeless live in abject poverty, huddling in doorways to find shelter from the wind.

Question 11

abjure

Answer 11

V. /发誓放弃/renounce upon oath. He abjured his allegiance to the king. abjuration, N.

Question 12

ablution

Answer 12

N. /洗/washing. His daily ablutions were accompanied by loud noises that he humorously labeled “Opera in the Bath.”

Question 13

abnegation

Answer 13

N. /批判，自我牺牲/repudiation; self-sacrifice. No act of abnegation was more pronounced than his refusal of any rewards for his discovery.

Question 14

abolish

Answer 14

V. /废除/cancel; put an end to. The president of the college refused to abolish the physical education requirement. abolition, N.

Question 15

abominable

Answer 15

ADJ. /可恶的，非常糟糕/detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad. Mary liked John until she learned he was dating Susan; then she called him an abominable young man, with abominable taste in women.

Question 16

aboriginal

Answer 16

ADJ., N. /原来的，土著的/being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native. Her studies of the primitive art forms of the aboriginal Indians were widely reported in the scientific journals. aborigines, N.

Question 17

abortive

Answer 17

ADJ. /不成功的，失败/unsuccessful; fruitless. Attacked by armed troops, the Chinese students had to abandon their abortive attempt to democratize Beijing peacefully. abort, V.

Question 18

abrade

Answer 18

V. /磨损，侵蚀/wear away by friction; scrape; erode. The sharp rocks abraded the skin on her legs, so she put iodine on her abrasions.

Question 19

abrasive

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ADJ. /摩擦的，粗糙的，研磨剂/rubbing away; tending to grind down. Just as abrasive cleaning powders can wear away a shiny finish, abrasive remarks can wear away a listener’s patience. abrade, V.

Question 20

abridge

Answer 20

V. /删节，节选/condense or shorten. Because the publishers felt the public wanted a shorter version of War and Peace, they proceeded to abridge the novel.

Question 21

abrogate

Answer 21

ADJ. /废除/abolish. He intended to abrogate the decree issued by his predecessor.

Question 22

abscond

Answer 22

V. /隐匿，逃避，躲债/depart secretly and hide. The teller who absconded with the bonds went uncaptured until someone recognized him from his photograph on “America’s Most Wanted.”

Question 23

absolute

Answer 23

ADJ. /完全的，肯定的/complete; totally unlimited; certain. Although the King of Siam was an absolute monarch, he did not want to behead his unfaithful wife without absolute evidence of her infidelity.

Question 24

absolve

Answer 24

V. /谅解/pardon (an offense). The father confessor absolved him of his sins. absolution, N.

Question 25

absorb

Answer 25

V. /吸收，合并/assimilate or incorporate; suck or drink up; wholly engage. During the nineteenth century, America absorbed hordes of immigrants, turning them into productive citizens. Can Huggies diapers absorb more liquid than Pampers can? This question does not absorb me; instead, it bores me. absorption, N.

Question 26

abstain

Answer 26

V. /控制，限制（自己）/refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice. After considering the effect of alcohol on his athletic performance, he decided to abstain from drinking while he trained for the race. abstinence, N.

Question 27

abstemious

Answer 27

ADJ. /节制（饮食），调节/sparing in eating and drinking; temperate. Concerned whether her vegetarian son's abstemious diet provided him with sufficient protein, the worried mother pressed food on him.

Question 28

abstinence

Answer 28

N. /节制（饮食）/restraint from eating or drinking. The doctor recommended total abstinence from salted foods. abstain, V.

Question 29

abstract

Answer 29

ADJ. /抽象的/theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational. To him, hunger was an abstract concept; he had never missed a meal.

Question 30

abstruse

Answer 30

ADJ. /难以理解的，复杂的/obscure; profound; difficult to understand. She carries around abstruse works of philosophy, not because she understands them but because she wants her friends to think she does.

Question 31

abundant

Answer 31

ADJ. /丰富，富足/plentiful; possessing riches or resources. At his immigration interview, Ivan listed his abundant reasons for coming to America: the hope of religious freedom, the prospect of employment, the promise of a more abundant life.

Question 32

abusive

Answer 32

ADJ. /粗俗的侮辱，对身体有害的/coarsely insulting; physically harmful. An abusive parent damages a child both mentally and physically.

Question 33

abut

Answer 33

V. /毗邻/border upon; adjoin. Where our estates abut, we must build a fence.

Question 34

abysmal

Answer 34

ADJ. /无底的/bottomless. His arrogance is exceeded only by his abysmal ignorance.

Question 35

abyss

Answer 35

N. /深渊，深坑，无底洞/enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit. Darth Vader seized the evil emperor and hurled him down into the abyss,

Question 36

academic

Answer 36

ADJ. /学术的/related to a school; not practical or directly useful. The dean's talk about reforming the college admissions system was only an academic discussion: we knew little, if anything, would change.

Question 37

accede

Answer 37

V. /同意/agree. If I accede to this demand for blackmail, I am afraid that I will be the victim of future demands.

Question 38

accelerate

Answer 38

V. /加速/move faster. In our science class, we learn how falling bodies accelerate.

Question 39

accentuate

Answer 39

V. /强调，重音/emphasize; stress. If you accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative, you may wind up with an overoptimistic view of the world.

Question 40

accessible

Answer 40

ADJ. /可得到的/easy to approach; obtainable. We asked our guide whether the ruins were accessible on foot.

Question 41

accessory

Answer 41

N. /附件/additional object; useful but not essential thing. She bought an attractive handbag as an accessory for her dress. Also ADJ.

Question 42

acclaim

Answer 42

V. /赞扬，表扬/applaud; announce with great approval. The NBC sportscasters acclaimed every American victory in the Olympics and decried every American defeat. also N.

Question 43

acclimate

Answer 43

V. /适应/adjust to climate. One of the difficulties of our present air age is the need of travelers to acclimate themselves to their new and often strange environments.

Question 44

acclivity

Answer 44

N. /上山的陡坡/sharp upslope of a hill. The car would not go up the acclivity in high gear.

Question 45

accolade

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N. /出名的大奖/award of merit. In Hollywood, an "Oscar" is the highest accolade.

Question 46

accommodate

Answer 46

V. /招待，食宿，适应/oblige or help someone; adjust or bring into harmony; adapt. Mitch

Question 47

always

Answer 47

did everything possible to accommodate his elderly relatives, from driving them to medical appointments to helping them with paperwork. (secondary meaning)

Question 48

accomplice

Answer 48

N. /共犯，同伙/partner in crime. Because he had provided the criminal with the lethal weapon, he was arrested as an accomplice in the murder.

Question 49

accord

Answer 49

N. /一致/agreement. She was in complete accord with the verdict.

Question 50

accost

Answer 50

V. /搭讪，邂逅/approach and speak first to a person. When the two young men accosted me, I was frightened because I thought they were going to attack me.

Question 51

accoutre

Answer 51

V. /装备/equip. The fisherman was accoutred with the best that the sporting goods store could supply. accoutrements, N.

Question 52

accretion

Answer 52

N. /增长/growth; increase. The accretion of wealth marked the family's rise in power.

Question 53

accrue

Answer 53

V. /附带的/come about by addition. You must pay the interest that has accrued on your debt as well as the principal sum. accrual, N.

Question 54

acerbity

Answer 54

N. /尖酸的（语气，脾气）/bitterness of speech and temper. The meeting of the United Nations General Assembly was marked with such acerbity that informed sources held out little hope of reaching any useful settlement of the problem. acerbic, ADJ.

Question 55

acetic

Answer 55

ADJ. /酸的/vinegary. The salad had an exceedingly acetic flavor.

Question 56

acidulous

Answer 56

ADJ. /酸的；尖锐，刻薄/slightly sour; sharp, caustic. James was unpopular because of his sarcastic and acidulous remarks.

Question 57

acknowledge

Answer 57

V. /认可，承认/recognize; admit. Although I acknowledge that the Beatles' tunes sound pretty dated today, I still prefer them to the "gangsta rap" songs my brothers play.

Question 58

acme

Answer 58

N. /顶点/top; pinnacle. His success in this role marked the acme of his career as an actor.

Question 59

acoustics

Answer 59

N. /声学的/science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in. Carnegie Hall is liked by music lovers because of its fine acoustics.

Question 60

acquiesce

Answer 60

V. /默许/assent; agree without protesting. Although she appeared to acquiesce to her employer's suggestions, I could tell she had reservations about the changes he wanted made. acquiescence, N.; acquiescent, ADJ.

Question 61

acquire

Answer 61

V. /获取/obtain; get. Frederick Douglass was determined to acquire an education despite his master's efforts to prevent his doing so.

Question 62

acquittal

Answer 62

N. /无罪开释/deliverance from a charge. His acquittal by the jury surprised those who had thought him guilty. acquit, V.

Question 63

acrid

Answer 63

ADJ. /尖锐；尖酸/sharp; bitterly pungent. The acrid odor of burnt gunpowder filled the room after the pistol had been fired.

Question 64

acrimonious

Answer 64

ADJ. /挖苦的，尖酸的（语言，行为）/bitter in words or manner. The candidate attacked his opponent in highly acrimonious terms. acrimony,

Question 65

acrophobia

Answer 65

N. /恐高症/fear of heights. A born salesman, he could convince someone with a bad case of acrophobia to sign up for a life membership in a sky-diving club.

Question 66

actuarial

Answer 66

ADJ. /保险精算的，精算/calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics. According to recent actuarial tables, life expectancy is greater today than it was a century ago.

Question 67

actuate

Answer 67

V. /推动，促使/motivate. I fail to understand what actuated you to reply to this letter so nastily.

Question 68

acuity

Answer 68

N. /尖锐/sharpness. In time his youthful acuity of vision failed him, and he needed glasses.

Question 69

acumen

Answer 69

N. /思想敏锐/mental keenness. His business acumen helped him to succeed where others had failed.

Question 70

acute

Answer 70

ADJ. /精明，敏锐，聪明/quickly perceptive; keen; brief and severe. The acute young doctor realized immediately that the gradual deterioration of her patient's once acute hearing was due to a chronic illness, not an acute one.

Question 71

adage

Answer 71

N. /格言，谚语/wise saying; proverb. There is much truth in the old adage about fools and their money.

Question 72

adamant

Answer 72

ADJ. /坚硬，不动摇/hard; inflexible. Bronson played the part of a revenge-driven man, adamant in his determination to punish the criminals who destroyed his family. adamancy, N.

Question 73

adapt

Answer 73

V. /改变/alter; modify. Some species of animals have become extinct because they could not adapt to a changing environment.

Question 74

addendum

Answer 74

N. /附加，补充/an addition or supplement. As an addendum to the minutes, let me point out that Susan moved to appoint Kathy and Arthur to the finance committee.

Question 75

addiction

Answer 75

N. /瘾，依赖/compulsive, habitual need. His addiction to drugs caused his friends much grief.

Question 76

addle

Answer 76

V. /使变疯，腐坏/muddle; drive crazy; become rotten. This idiotic plan is confusing enough to addle anyone. addled, ADJ.

Question 77

address

Answer 77

V. /发表（演讲），处理，讨论/direct a speech to; deal with or discuss. Due to address the convention in July, Brown planned to address the issue of low-income housing in his speech.

Question 78

adept

Answer 78

ADJ. /擅长于/expert at. She was adept at the fine art of irritating people. also N.

Question 79

adhere

Answer 79

V. /黏着/stick fast. I will adhere to this opinion until proof that I am wrong is presented. adhesion, N.

Question 80

adherent

Answer 80

N. /支持者，追随者/supporter; follower. In the wake of the scandal, the senator's one-time adherents quickly deserted him.

Question 81

adjacent

Answer 81

ADJ. /邻近的，毗邻的/adjoining; neighboring; close by. Philip's best friend Jason lived only four houses down the block, close but not immediately adjacent.

Question 82

adjunct

Answer 82

N. /无用的附加物/something added on or attached (generally nonessential or inferior). Although I don't absolutely need a second computer, I plan to buy a laptop to serve as an adjunct to my desktop model.

Question 83

admonish

Answer 83

V. /警告，训斥/warn; reprove. He admonished his listeners to change their wicked ways. admonition, N.

Question 84

admonition

Answer 84

N. /警告/warning. After the student protesters repeatedly rejected Chairman Deng's admonitions, the government issued an ultimatum: either the students would end the demonstration at once or the soldiers would fire on the crowd.

Question 85

adorn

Answer 85

V. /装饰/decorate. Wall paintings and carved statues adorned the temple. adornment, N.

Question 86

adroit

Answer 86

ADJ. /熟练，有技巧/skillful. His adroit handling of the delicate situation pleased his employers.

Question 87

adulation

Answer 87

N. /奉承，恭维/flattery; admiration. The rock star thrived on the adulation of his groupies and yes men. adulate, V.

Question 88

adulterate

Answer 88

V. /掺杂/make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances. It is a crime to adulterate foods without informing the buyer; when consumers learned that Beech-Nut had adulterated their apple juice by mixing it with water, they protested vigorously.

Question 89

advent

Answer 89

N. /到来，出现/arrival. Most Americans were unaware of the advent of the Nuclear Age until the news of Hiroshima reached them.

Question 90

adventitious

Answer 90

ADJ. /偶然/accidental; casual. He found this adventitious meeting with his friend extremely fortunate.

Question 91

adversary

Answer 91

N. /对手/opponent. The young wrestler struggled to defeat his adversary.

Question 92

adverse

Answer 92

ADJ. /讨厌，敌意/unfavorable; hostile. The recession had a highly adverse effect on Father's investment portfolio: he lost so much money that he could no longer afford the butler and the upstairs maid. adversity, N.

Question 93

adversity

Answer 93

N. /贫困，不幸/poverty; misfortune. We must learn to meet adversity gracefully.

Question 94

advocacy

Answer 94

N. /支持，辩护/support; active pleading on something's behalf. No threats could dissuade Bishop Desmond Tutu from his advocacy of the human rights of black South Africans.

Question 95

advocate

Answer 95

V. /辩护/urge; plead for. The abolitionists advocated freedom for the slaves. also N.

Question 96

aerie

Answer 96

N. /猛禽的窝/nest of a large bird of prey (eagle, hawk). The mother eagle swooped down on the unwitting rabbit and bore it off to her aerie high in the Rocky Mountains.

Question 97

aesthetic

Answer 97

ADJ. /审美的/artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciation of the beautiful. The beauty of Tiffany's stained glass appealed to Esther's aesthetic sense. aesthete, N.

Question 98

affable

Answer 98

ADJ. /平易近人的/easily approachable; warmly friendly. Accustomed to cold, aloof supervisors, Nicholas was amazed at how affable his new employer was.

Question 99

affected

Answer 99

ADJ. /假的，做作的/artificial; pretended; assumed in order to impress. His affected mannerisms-his "Harvard" accent, his air of boredom, his use of obscure foreign words-bugged us: he acted as if he thought he was too good for his old high school friends. affectation, N.

Question 100

affidavit

Answer 100

N. /宣誓书/written statement made under oath. The court refused to accept his statement unless he presented it in the form of an affidavit.

Question 101

affiliation

Answer 101

N. /联合，加入/joining; associating with. His affiliation with the political party was of short duration for he soon disagreed with his colleagues.

Question 102

affinity

Answer 102

N. /亲缘关系/kinship. She felt an affinity with all who suffered; their pains were her pains.

Question 103

affirmation

Answer 103

N. /正面肯定，确认/positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath. Despite Tom's affirmations of innocence, Aunt Polly still suspected he had eaten the pie.

Question 104

affix

Answer 104

V. /增加，附于/fasten; attach; add on. First the registrar had to affix her signature to the license; then she had to affix her official seal.

Question 105

affliction

Answer 105

N. /痛苦/state of distress; cause of suffering. Even in the midst of her affliction, Elizabeth tried to keep up the spirits of those around her.

Question 106

affluence

Answer 106

N. /富足，财富/abundance; wealth. Foreigners are amazed by the affluence and luxury of the American way of life.

Question 107

affront

Answer 107

N. /侮辱，冒犯；蓄意蔑视/insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect. When Mrs. Proudie was not seated beside the Archdeacon at the head table, she took it as a personal affront and refused to speak to her hosts for a week. Also V.

Question 108

aftermath

Answer 108

N. /后果，结果/consequences; outcome; upshot. People around the world wondered what the aftermath of China's violent suppression of the student protests would be.

Question 109

agenda

Answer 109

N. /议程/items of business at a meeting. We had so much difficulty agreeing upon an agenda that there was very little time for the meeting.

Question 110

agent

Answer 110

N. /方法，工具；代表/means or instrument; personal representative; person acting in an official capacity. °I will be the agent of America's destruction," proclaimed the beady-eyed villain, whose agent had gotten him the role. With his face, he could never have played the part of the hero, a heroic F.B.I. agent.

Question 111

agglomeration

Answer 111

N. /聚集，累积/collection; heap. It took weeks to assort the agglomeration of miscellaneous items she had collected on her trip.

Question 112

aggrandize

Answer 112

V. /增加，加强/increase or intensify. The history of the past quarter century illustrates how a President may aggrandize his power to act aggressively in international affairs without considering the wishes of Congress.

Question 113

aggregate

Answer 113

V. /收集，聚集/gather; accumulate. Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers in so-called junk bonds managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time. aggregation, N.

Question 114

aggressor

Answer 114

N. /攻击者/attacker. Before you punish both boys for fighting, see whether you can determine which one was the aggressor.

Question 115

aghast

Answer 115

ADJ. /吓坏了的/horrified. He was aghast at the nerve of the speaker who had insulted his host.

Question 116

agility

Answer 116

N. /敏捷/nimbleness. The agility of the acrobat amazed and thrilled the audience.

Question 117

agitate

Answer 117

V. /激怒，打扰/stir up; disturb. Her fiery remarks agitated the already angry mob.

Question 118

agnostic

Answer 118

N. /无神论者/one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality. Agnostics say we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god; we simply just can't know. Also ADJ.

Question 119

agrarian

Answer 119

ADJ. /耕地的，耕种的/pertaining to land or its cultivation. The country is gradually losing its agrarian occupation and turning more and more to an industrial point of view.

Question 120

alacrity

Answer 120

N. /欢快的情绪/cheerful promptness. Phil and Dave were raring to get off to the mountains; they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van with alacrity.

Question 121

alchemy

Answer 121

N. /炼金术士/medieval chemistry. The changing of baser metals into gold was the goal of the students of alchemy. alchemist, N.

Question 122

alcove

Answer 122

N. /小隔间，壁橱/nook; small, recessed section of a room. Though their apartment lacked a full-scale dining room, an alcove adjacent to the living room made an adequate breakfast nook for the young couple.

Question 123

alias

Answer 123

N. /别名/an assumed name. John Smith's alias was Bob Jones. also ADV.

Question 124

alienate

Answer 124

V. /孤立，树敌/make hostile; separate. Her attempts to alienate the two friends failed because they had complete faith in each other.

Question 125

alimentary

Answer 125

ADJ. /营养的/supplying nourishment. The alimentary canal in our bodies is so named because digestion of foods occurs there. When asked for the name of the digestive tract, Sherlock Holmes replied, "Alimentary, my dear Watson."

Question 126

alimony

Answer 126

N. /（离婚后的）生活费，抚养费/payment by a husband to his divorced wife (or vice versa). Mrs. Jones was awarded $200 monthly alimony by the court when she was divorced from her husband.

Question 127

allay

Answer 127

V. /平静下来，（使）冷静下来/calm; pacify. The crew tried to allay the fears of the passengers by announcing that the fire had been controlled.

Question 128

allege

Answer 128

V. /断言/state without proof. Although it is alleged that she has worked for the enemy, she denies the allegation and, legally, we can take no action against her without proof. allegation, N.

Question 129

allegiance

Answer 129

N. /忠诚/loyalty. Not even a term in prison could shake Lech Walesa's allegiance to Solidarity, the Polish trade union he had helped to found.

Question 130

allegory

Answer 130

N. /寓言/story in which characters are used as symbols; fable. Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the temptations and victories of man's soul. allegorical, ADJ.

Question 131

alleviate

Answer 131

V. /解脱，释放，释然/relieve. This should alleviate the pain; if it does not, we shall have to use stronger drugs.

Question 132

alliteration

Answer 132

N. /头韵/repetition of beginning sound in poetry. "The furrow followed free" is an example of alliteration.

Question 133

allocate

Answer 133

V. /分配，制定/assign. Even though the Red Cross had allocated a large sum for the relief of the sufferers of the disaster, many people perished.

Question 134

alloy

Answer 134

N. /合金/a mixture as of metals. Alloys of gold are used more frequently than the pure metal.

Question 135

alloy

Answer 135

V. /混合，中和/mix; make less pure; lessen or moderate. Our delight at the Yankees' victory was alloyed by our concern for Dwight Gooden, who injured his pitching arm in the game.

Question 136

allude

Answer 136

V. /暗指/refer indirectly. Try not to mention divorce in Jack's presence because he will think you are alluding to his marital problems with Jill.

Question 137

allure

Answer 137

V. /诱惑，引诱/entice; attract. Allured by the song of the sirens, the helmsman steered the ship toward the reef. also N.

Question 138

allusion

Answer 138

N. /暗指，暗示/indirect reference. When Amanda said to the ticket scalper, "One hundred bucks? What do you want, a pound of flesh?," she was making an allusion to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

Question 139

aloft

Answer 139

ADV. /向上/upward. The sailor climbed aloft into the rigging. To get into a loft bed, you have to climb aloft.

Question 140

aloof

Answer 140

ADJ. /分离，保留/apart; reserved. Shy by nature, she remained aloof while all the rest conversed.

Question 141

altercation

Answer 141

N. /大声争吵，激烈争论/noisy quarrel; heated dispute. In that hottempered household, no meal ever came to a peaceful conclusion; the inevitable altercation might even end in blows.

Question 142

altruistic

Answer 142

ADJ. /无私的，关心他人的/unselfishly generous; concerned for others. In providing tutorial assistance and college scholarships for hundreds of economically disadvantaged youths, Eugene Lang performed a truly altruistic deed. altruism, N.

Question 143

amalgamate

Answer 143

V. /结合，整合/combine; unite in one body. The unions will attempt to amalgamate their groups into one national body.

Question 144

amass

Answer 144

V. /收集/collect. The miser's aim is to amass and hoard as much gold as possible.

Question 145

ambidextrous

Answer 145

ADJ. /双手都灵巧/capable of using either hand with equal ease. A switch-hitter in baseball should be naturally ambidextrous.

Question 146

ambience

Answer 146

N. /环境/environment; atmosphere. She went to the restaurant not for the food but for the ambience.

Question 147

ambiguous

Answer 147

ADJ. /模棱两可/unclear or doubtful in meaning. His ambiguous instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take. ambiguity, N.

Question 148

ambivalence

Answer 148

N. /矛盾的观点或情绪/the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes. Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next, she was confused by the ambivalence of her feelings. ambivalent, ADJ.

Question 149

amble

Answer 149

N. /漫步，缓行/moving at an easy pace. When she first mounted the horse, she was afraid to urge the animal to go faster than a gentle amble. Also V.

Question 150

ambulatory

Answer 150

ADJ. /可移动的，不固定/able to walk; not bedridden. Juan was a highly ambulatory patient; not only did he refuse to be confined to bed, but he insisted on riding his skateboard up and down the halls.

Question 151

ameliorate

Answer 151

V. /提高/improve. Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in the slums.

Question 152

amenable

Answer 152

ADJ. /有服从义务的，随时服从的/readily managed; willing to be led. He was amenable to any suggestions that came from those he looked up to; he resented advice from his inferiors.

Question 153

amend

Answer 153

V. /修订，修改，变更/correct; change, generally for the better. Hoping to amend his condition, he left Vietnam for the United States.

Question 154

amenities

Answer 154

N. /令人愉快的，礼貌的/convenient features; courtesies. In addition to the customary amenities for the business traveler-fax machines, modems, a health club-the hotel offers the services of a butler versed in the social amenities.

Question 155

amiable

Answer 155

ADJ. /可爱的，友好的，惬意的/agreeable; lovable; warmly friendly. In Little Women, Beth is the amiable daughter whose loving disposition endears her to all who know her.

Question 156

amicable

Answer 156

ADJ. /温和的，友好礼貌的/politely friendly; not quarrelsome. Beth's sister Jo is the hot-tempered tomboy who has a hard time maintaining amicable relations with those around her. Jo's quarrel with her friend Laurie finally reaches an amicable settlement, but not because Jo turns amiable overnight.

Question 157

amiss

Answer 157

ADJ. /错误/wrong; faulty. Seeing her frown, he wondered if anything were amiss. also ADV.

Question 158

amity

Answer 158

N. /友谊/friendship. Student exchange programs such as the Experiment in International Living were established to promote international amity.

Question 159

amnesia

Answer 159

N. /失忆，健忘/loss of memory. Because she was suffering from amnesia, the police could not get the young girl to identify herself.

Question 160

amnesty

Answer 160

N. /原谅/pardon. When his first child was born, the king granted amnesty to all in prison.

Question 161

amoral

Answer 161

ADJ. /不道德的/nonmoral. The amoral individual lacks a code of ethics; he cannot tell right from wrong. The immoral person can tell right from wrong; he chooses to do something he knows is wrong.

Question 162

amorous

Answer 162

ADJ. /爱情的/moved by sexual love; loving. "Love them and leave them" was the motto of the amorous Don Juan.

Question 163

amorphous

Answer 163

ADJ. /无形的，不成形的/formless; lacking shape or definition. As soon as we have decided on our itinerary, we shall send you a copy; right now, our plans are still amorphous.

Question 164

amphibian

Answer 164

ADJ. /两栖的/able to live both on land and in water. Frogs are classified as amphibian. also N.

Question 165

amphitheater

Answer 165

N. /椭圆形的剧院，斗兽场/oval building with tiers of seats. The spectators in the amphitheater cheered the gladiators.

Question 166

ample

Answer 166

ADJ. /丰富的，富足的/abundant. Bond had ample opportunity to escape. Why did he let us catch him?

Question 167

amplify

Answer 167

V. /放大/broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger. Charlie Brown tried to amplify his remarks, but he was drowned out by jeers from the audience. Lucy was smarter: she used a loudspeaker to amplify her voice.

Question 168

amputate

Answer 168

V. /截肢，切除/cut off part of body; prune. When the doctors had to amputate the young man's leg to prevent the spread of cancer, he did not let the loss of a limb keep him from participating in sports.

Question 169

amulet

Answer 169

N. /护身符/charm; talisman. Around her neck she wore the amulet that the witch doctor had given her.

Question 170

anachronistic

Answer 170

ADJ. /时代错误/having an error involving time in a story. The reference to clocks in Julius Caesar is anachronistic: clocks did not exist in Caesar's time. anachronism, N.

Question 171

analgesic

Answer 171

ADJ. /止痛的/causing insensitivity to pain. The analgesic qualities of this lotion will provide temporary relief.

Question 172

analogous

Answer 172

ADJ. /类似的/comparable. She called our attention to the things that had been done in an analogous situation and recommended that we do the same.

Question 173

analogy

Answer 173

N. /类比，相似/similarity; parallelism. A well-known analogy compares the body's immune system with an army whose defending troops are the lymphocytes or white blood cells.

Question 174

anarchist

Answer 174

N. /无政府主义者/person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority. Denying she was an anarchist, Katya maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it entirely. anarchy, N.

Question 175

anarchy

Answer 175

N. /无政府主义/absence of governing body; state of disorder. The assassination of the leaders led to a period of anarchy.

Question 176

anathema

Answer 176

N. /诅咒/solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse. The Ayatolla Khomeini heaped anathema upon "the Great Satan," that is, the United States. To the Ayatolla, America and the West were anathema; he loathed the democratic nations, cursing them in his dying words. anathematize, V.

Question 177

ancestry

Answer 177

N. /祖先/family descent. David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century, when one of his ancestors was a court trumpeter somewhere in Germany. ancestral, ADJ.

Question 178

anchor

Answer 178

V. /固定；锚/secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place. We set the post in concrete to anchor it in place. anchorage, N.

Question 179

ancillary

Answer 179

ADJ. /辅助的/serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary. In an ancillary capacity, Doctor Watson was helpful; however, Holmes could not trust the good doctor to solve a perplexing case on his own. also N.

Question 180

anecdote

Answer 180

N. /奇闻轶事/short account of an amusing or interesting event. Rather than make concrete proposals for welfare reform, President Reagan told anecdotes about poor people who became wealthy despite their impoverished backgrounds.

Question 181

anemia

Answer 181

N. /贫血/condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles. The doctor ascribes her tiredness to anemia. anemic, ADJ.

Question 182

anesthetic

Answer 182

N. /麻醉药/substance that removes sensation with or without loss of consciousness. His monotonous voice acted like an anesthetic; his audience was soon asleep. anesthesia, N.

Question 183

anguish

Answer 183

N. /极度痛苦/acute pain; extreme suffering. Visiting the site of the explosion, the governor wept to see the anguish of the victims and their families.

Question 184

angular

Answer 184

ADJ. /有尖角的，瘦骨嶙峋的/sharp-cornered; stiff in manner. Mr. Spock's features, though angular, were curiously attractive, in a Vulcan way.

Question 185

animated

Answer 185

ADJ. /活跃的，有生气的/lively; spirited. Jim Carrey's facial expressions are highly animated: when he played Ace Ventura, he looked practically rubber-faced.

Question 186

animosity

Answer 186

N. /仇恨/active enmity. He incurred the animosity of the ruling class because he advocated limitations of their power.

Question 187

animus

Answer 187

N. /敌意/hostile feeling or intent. The animus of the speaker became obvious to all when he began to indulge in sarcastic and insulting remarks.

Question 188

annals

Answer 188

N. /记录，历史/records; history. In the annals of this period, we find no mention of democratic movements.

Question 189

annex

Answer 189

V. /接手/attach; take possession of. Mexico objected to the United States' attempts to annex the territory that later became the state of Texas.

Question 190

annihilate

Answer 190

V. /毁灭，破坏/destroy. The enemy in its revenge tried to annihilate the entire population.

Question 191

annotate

Answer 191

V. /评论，注释/comment; make explanatory notes. In the appendix to the novel, the editor sought to annotate many of the author's more esoteric references.

Question 192

annuity

Answer 192

N. /年金，养老金/yearly allowance. The annuity he setup with the insurance company supplements his social security benefits so that he can live very comfortably without working.

Question 193

annul

Answer 193

V. /避免/make void. The parents of the eloped couple tried to annul the marriage.

Question 194

anoint

Answer 194

V. /神圣化/consecrate. The prophet Samuel anointed David with oil, crowning him king of Israel.

Question 195

anomalous

Answer 195

ADJ. /不正常的，变态的/abnormal; irregular. He was placed in the anomalous position of seeming to approve procedures which he despised.

Question 196

anomaly

Answer 196

N. /不正常/irregularity. A bird that cannot fly is an anomaly.

Question 197

anonymity

Answer 197

N. /匿名/state of being nameless; anonymousness. The donor of the gift asked the college not to mention him by name; the dean readily agreed to respect his anonymity.

Question 198

anonymous

Answer 198

ADJ. /匿名的/having no name. She tried to ascertain the identity of the writer of the anonymous letter.

Question 199

antagonism

Answer 199

N. /反抗，敌对/hostility; active resistance. Barry showed his antagonism toward his new stepmother by ignoring her whenever she tried talking to him. antagonistic, ADJ.

Question 200

antecede

Answer 200

V. /先于/precede. The invention of the radiotelegraph anteceded the development of television by a quarter of a century.

Question 201

antecedents

Answer 201

N. /历史环境；历史背景/preceding events or circumstances that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background. Susi Bechhofer's ignorance of her Jewish background had its antecedents in the chaos of World War II. Smuggled out of Germany and adopted by a Christian family, she knew nothing of her birth and antecedents until she was reunited with her family in 1989.

Question 202

antediluvian

Answer 202

ADJ. /远古，上古，及其久远/antiquated; extremely ancient. Looking at his great-aunt's antique furniture, which must have been cluttering up her attic since the time of Noah's flood, the young heir exclaimed, "Heavens! How positively antediluvian!"

Question 203

anthem

Answer 203

N. /圣歌，赞美诗/song of praise or patriotism. Let us now all join in singing the national anthem.

Question 204

anthology

Answer 204

N. /选集/book of literary selections by various authors. This anthology of science fiction was compiled by the late Isaac Asimov. anthologize, V.

Question 205

anthropocentric

Answer 205

ADJ. /人类中心说/regarding human beings as the center of the universe. Without considering any evidence that might challenge his anthropocentric viewpoint, Hector cate-gorically maintained that dolphins could not be as intelligent as men. anthropocentrism, N.

Question 206

anthropoid

Answer 206

ADJ. /类人的/manlike. The gorilla is the strongest of the anthropoid animals. also N.

Question 207

anthropologist

Answer 207

N. /人类学家/a student of the history and science of mankind. Anthropologists have discovered several relics of prehistoric man in this area.

Question 208

anthropomorphic

Answer 208

ADJ. /人形的/having human form or characteristics. Primitive religions often have deities with anthropomorphic characteristics. anthropomorphism, N.

Question 209

anticlimax

Answer 209

N. /反高潮，突降/letdown in thought or emotion. After the fine performance in the first act, the rest of the play was an anticlimax. anticlimactic, ADJ.

Question 210

antidote

Answer 210

N. /解药/medicine to counteract a poison or disease. When Marge's child accidentally swallowed some cleaning fluid, the local poison control hotline instructed Marge how to administer the antidote.

Question 211

antipathy

Answer 211

N. /反对，厌恶/aversion; dislike. Tom's extreme antipathy for disputes keeps him from getting into arguments with his temperamental wife. Noise in any form is antipathetic to him. Among his other antipathies are honking cars, boom boxes, and heavy metal rock.

Question 212

antiquated

Answer 212

ADJ. /过时的，陈旧的/old-fashioned; obsolete. Philip had grown so accustomed to editing his papers on word processors that he thought typewriters were too antiquated for him to use.

Question 213

antiseptic

Answer 213

N. /抗菌物/substance that prevents infection. It is advisable to apply an antiseptic to any wound, no matter how slight or insignificant. Also ADJ.

Question 214

antithesis

Answer 214

N. /对立面/contrast; direct opposite of or to. This tyranny was the antithesis of all that he had hoped for, and he fought it with all his strength.

Question 215

apathy

Answer 215

N. /漠不关心/lack of caring; indifference. A firm believer in democratic government, she could not understand the apathy of people who never bothered to vote. apathetic, ADJ.

Question 216

ape

Answer 216

V. /模仿/imitate or mimic. He was suspended for a week because he had aped the principal in front of the whole school.

Question 217

aperture

Answer 217

N. /洞，穴，孔/opening; hole. She discovered a small aperture in the wall, through which the insects had entered the room.

Question 218

apex

Answer 218

N. /高点，顶点，高潮/tip; summit; climax. He was at the apex of his career: he had climbed to the top of the heap.

Question 219

aphasia

Answer 219

N. /失声/loss of speech due to injury or illness. After the automobile accident, the victim had periods of aphasia when he could not speak at all or could only mumble incoherently.

Question 220

aphorism

Answer 220

N. /格言，警句，谚语/pithy maxim. An aphorism differs from an adage in that it is more philosophical or scientific. "The proper study of mankind is man" is an aphorism. "There's no smoke without a fire" is an adage. aphoristic, ADJ.

Question 221

apiary

Answer 221

N. /蜂房/a place where bees are kept. Although he spent many hours daily in the apiary, he was very seldom stung by a bee.

Question 222

aplomb

Answer 222

N. /沉着，垂直/poise; assurance. Gwen's aplomb in handling potentially embarrassing moments was legendary around the office; when one of her clients broke a piece of her best crystal, she coolly picked up her own goblet and hurled it into the fireplace.

Question 223

apocalyptic

Answer 223

ADJ. /启示的，启示录的/prophetic; pertaining to revelations. The crowd jeered at the street preacher's apocalyptic predictions of doom. The Apocalypse or Book of Revelations of Saint John prophesies the end of the world as we know it and foretells marvels and prodigies that signal the coming doom.

Question 224

apocryphal

Answer 224

ADJ. /假的，捏造的/untrue; made up. To impress his friends, Tom invented apocryphal tales of his adventures in the big city.

Question 225

apogee

Answer 225

N. /顶点/highest point. When the moon in its orbit is farthest away from the earth, it is at its apogee.

Question 226

apolitical

Answer 226

ADJ. /不问政治的/having an aversion or lack of concern for political affairs. It was hard to remain apolitical during the Vietnam War; even people who generally ignored public issues felt they had to take political stands.

Question 227

apologist

Answer 227

N. /辩护者/one who writes in defense of a cause or institution. Rather than act as an apologist for the current regime in Beijing and defend its brutal actions, the young diplomat decided to defect to the West.

Question 228

apostate

Answer 228

N. /变节者，脱党者，叛徒/one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs. Because he switched from one party to another, his former friends shunned him as an apostate. apostasy, N.

Question 229

apotheosis

Answer 229

N. /神化，典范/elevation to godhood; an ideal example of something. The apotheosis of a Roman emperor was designed to insure his eternal greatness: people would worship at his altar forever. The hero of the musical How to Succeed in Business ... was the apotheosis of yuppieness: he was the perfect upwardly-bound young man on the make.

Question 230

appall

Answer 230

V. /使惊慌，震惊/dismay; shock. We were appalled by the horrifying conditions in the city's jails.

Question 231

apparatus

Answer 231

N. /器械，设备/equipment. Firefighters use specialized apparatus to fight fires.

Question 232

apparition

Answer 232

N. /鬼，幽灵/ghost; phantom. On the castle battlements, an apparition materialized and spoke to Hamlet, warning him of his uncle's treachery. In Ghostbusters, hordes of apparitions materialized, only to be dematerialized by the specialized apparatus wielded by Bill Murray.

Question 233

appease

Answer 233

V. /平静，安抚/pacify or soothe; relieve. Tom and Jody tried to appease the crying baby by offering him one toy after another, but he would not calm down until they appeased his hunger by giving him a bottle.

Question 234

appellation

Answer 234

N. /名字，标题/name; title. Macbeth was startled when the witches greeted him with an incorrect appellation. Why did they call him Thane of Cawdor, he wondered, when the holder of that title still lived?

Question 235

append

Answer 235

V. /追加，附上/attach. When you append a bibliography to a text, you have just created an appendix.

Question 236

application

Answer 236

N. /勤奋的付出/diligent attention. Pleased with how well Tom had whitewashed the fence, Aunt Polly praised him for his application to the task. apply, V. (secondary meaning)

Question 237

apposite

Answer 237

ADJ. /合适的/appropriate; fitting. He was always able to find the apposite phrase, the correct expression for every occasion.

Question 238

appraise

Answer 238

V. /估价/estimate value of. It is difficult to appraise the value of old paintings; it is easier to call them priceless. appraisal, N.

Question 239

appreciate

Answer 239

V. /感激；增值；赏识/be thankful for; increase in worth; be thoroughly conscious of. Little Orphan Annie truly appreciated the stocks Daddy Warbucks gave her, which appreciated in value considerably over the years.

Question 240

apprehend

Answer 240

V. /逮捕；惧怕；领会/arrest (a criminal); dread; perceive. The police will apprehend the culprit and convict him before long.

Question 241

apprehension

Answer 241

N. /害怕/fear. His nervous glances at the passersby on the deserted street revealed his apprehension.

Question 242

apprenticeship

Answer 242

N. /学徒身份/time spent as a novice learning a trade from a skilled worker. As a child, Pip had thought it would be wonderful to work as Joe's apprentice; now he hated his apprenticeship and scorned the blacksmith's trade.

Question 243

apprise

Answer 243

V. /告诉/inform. When he was apprised of the dangerous weather conditions, he decided to postpone his trip.

Question 244

approbation

Answer 244

N. /同意，批准/approval. She looked for some sign of approbation from her parents, hoping her good grades would please them.

Question 245

appropriate

Answer 245

V. /获得；挪用，据为己有/acquire; take possession of for one's own use. The ranch owners appropriated the lands that had originally been set aside for the Indians' use.

Question 246

apropos

Answer 246

PREP. /关于/with reference to; regarding. I find your remarks apropos of the present situation timely and pertinent. Also ADJ. and ADV.

Question 247

aptitude

Answer 247

N. /能力，才能/fitness; talent. The counselor gave him an aptitude test before advising him about the career he should follow.

Question 248

aquatic

Answer 248

ADJ. /与水有关系的/pertaining to water. Paul enjoyed aquatic sports such as scuba diving and snorkeling.

Question 249

aquiline

Answer 249

ADJ. /弯曲的，钩状的/curved, hooked. He can be recognized by his aquiline nose, curved like the beak of the eagle.

Question 250

arable

Answer 250

ADJ. /可耕种的/fit for growing crops. The first settlers wrote home glowing reports of the New World, praising its vast acres of arable land ready for the plow.

Question 251

arbiter

Answer 251

N. /仲裁者/a person with power to decide a dispute; judge. As an arbiter in labor disputes, she has won the confidence of the workers and the employers.

Question 252

arbitrary

Answer 252

ADJ. /反复无常；残暴；随机的/capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical. Tom's arbitrary dismissal angered him; his boss had no reason to fire him. He threw an arbitrary assortment of clothes into his suitcase and headed off, not caring where he went.

Question 253

arbitrator

Answer 253

N. / 仲裁者/judge. Because the negotiating teams had been unable to reach a contract settlement, an outside arbitrator was called upon to mediate the dispute between union and management. arbitration, N.

Question 254

arboretum

Answer 254

N. /植物园/place where different tree varieties are exhibited. Walking along the tree-lined paths of the arboretum, Rita noted poplars, firs, and some particularly fine sycamores.

Question 255

arcade

Answer 255

N. /拱廊/a covered passageway, usually lined with shops. The arcade was popular with shoppers because it gave them protection from the summer sun and the winter rain.

Question 256

arcane

Answer 256

ADJ. /秘密；谜/secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated. Secret brotherhoods surround themselves with arcane rituals and trappings to mystify outsiders. So do doctors. Consider the arcane terminology they use and the impression they try to give that what is arcane to us is obvious to them.

Question 257

archaeology

Answer 257

N. /考古学/study of artifacts and relics of early mankind. The professor of archaeology headed an expedition to the Gobi Desert in search of ancient ruins.

Question 258

archaic

Answer 258

ADJ. /过时的/antiquated. "Methinks," "thee," and "thou" are archaic words that are no longer part of our normal vocabulary.

Question 259

archetype

Answer 259

N. /原形/prototype; primitive pattern. The Brooklyn Bridge was the archetype of the many spans that now connect Manhattan with Long Island and New Jersey.

Question 260

archipelago

Answer 260

N. /群岛/group of closely located islands. When Gauguin looked at the map and saw the archipelagoes in the South Seas, he longed to visit them.

Question 261

archives

Answer 261

N. /档案；档案馆/public records; place where public records are kept. These documents should be part of the archives so that historians may be able to evaluate them in the future.

Question 262

ardent

Answer 262

ADJ. /激烈的；热心肠的；有激情的/intense; passionate; zealous. Katya's ardor was contagious; soon all her fellow demonstrators were busily making posters and handing out flyers, inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause. ardor, N.

Question 263

arduous

Answer 263

ADJ. /努力；奋发/hard; strenuous. Her arduous efforts had sapped her energy.

Question 264

aria

Answer 264

N. /清唱剧/operatic solo. At her Metropolitan Opera audition, Marian Anderson sang an aria from Norma.

Question 265

arid

Answer 265

ADJ. /荒芜的/dry; barren. The cactus has adapted to survive in an arid environment.

Question 266

aristocracy

Answer 266

N. /贵族/hereditary nobility; privileged class. Americans have mixed feelings about hereditary aristocracy. we say all men are created equal, but we describe particularly outstanding people as natural aristocrats.

Question 267

armada

Answer 267

N. / 舰队 /fleet of warships. Queen Elizabeth's navy defeated the mighty armada that threatened the English coast.

Question 268

aromatic

Answer 268

ADJ. /芬芳的/fragrant. Medieval sailing vessels brought aromatic herbs from China to Europe.

Question 269

arousal

Answer 269

N. /觉醒；激励/awakening; provocation (of a response). On arousal, Papa was always grumpy as a bear. The children tiptoed around the house, fearing they would arouse his anger by waking him up.

Question 270

arraign

Answer 270

V. /传讯；责问/charge in court; indict. After his indictment by the Grand Jury, the accused man was arraigned in the County Criminal Court.

Question 271

array

Answer 271

V. /排列；整理/marshal; draw up in order. His actions were bound to array public sentiment against him. also N.

Question 272

array

Answer 272

V. /衣服；穿着，装饰/clothe; adorn. She liked to watch her mother array herself in her finest clothes before going out for the evening. also N.

Question 273

arrears

Answer 273

N. /欠债/being in debt. He was in arrears with his payments on the car.

Question 274

arrest

Answer 274

V. /阻止；引起注意；吸引/stop or slow down; catch someone's attention. Slipping, the trapeze artist plunged from the heights until a safety net luckily arrested his fall. This near-disaster arrested the crowd's attention.

Question 275

arrogance

Answer 275

N. /傲慢，骄傲/pride; haughtiness. Convinced that Emma thought she was better than anyone else in the class, Ed rebuked her for her arrogance.

Question 276

arroyo

Answer 276

N. /干枯的河床/gully. Until the heavy rains of the past spring, this arroyo had been a dry bed.

Question 277

arsenal

Answer 277

N. /军火库/storage place for military equipment. People are forbidden to smoke in the arsenal for fear that a stray spark might setoff the munitions stored there.

Question 278

articulate

Answer 278

ADJ. /有效的；独特的/effective; distinct. Her articulate presentation of the advertising campaign impressed her employers. Also V.

Question 279

artifact

Answer 279

N. /人造物品/object made by human beings, either handmade or mass-produced. Archaeologists debated the significance of the artifacts discovered in the ruins of Asia Minor but came to no conclusion about the culture they represented.

Question 280

artifice

Answer 280

N. /技巧；欺骗/deception; trickery. The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and artifice were often more effective than military might.

Question 281

artisan

Answer 281

N. /工匠/manually skilled worker; craftsman, as opposed to artist. A noted artisan, Arturo was known for the fine craftsmanship of his inlaid cabinets.

Question 282

artless

Answer 282

ADJ. /坦诚；直率/without guile; open and honest. Sophisticated and cynical, Jack could not believe Jill was as artless and naive as she appeared to be.

Question 283

ascendancy

Answer 283

N. /统治，控制/controlling influence; domination. Leaders of religious cults maintain ascendancy over their followers by methods that can verge on brainwashing.

Question 284

ascertain

Answer 284

V. /确认，确证/find out for certain. Please ascertain her present address.

Question 285

ascetic

Answer 285

ADJ. /苦行；禁欲/practicing self-denial; austere. The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders. also N.

Question 286

ascribe

Answer 286

V. /归因于；指派/refer; attribute; assign. I can ascribe no motive for her acts.

Question 287

aseptic

Answer 287

ADJ. /抗菌的/preventing infection; having a cleansing effect. Hospitals succeeded in lowering the mortality rate as soon as they introduced aseptic conditions.

Question 288

ashen

Answer 288

ADJ. /灰色/ash-colored. Her face was ashen with fear.

Question 289

asinine

Answer 289

ADJ. /愚蠢/stupid. Your asinine remarks prove that you have not given this problem any serious consideration.

Question 290

askance

Answer 290

ADJ. /瞄，不经意的斜视/with a sideways or indirect look. Looking askance at her questioner, she displayed her scorn.

Question 291

askew

Answer 291

ADJ. /歪斜/crookedly; slanted; at an angle. When he placed his hat askew upon his head, his observers laughed.

Question 292

asperity

Answer 292

N. /严酷，粗暴/sharpness (of temper). These remarks, spoken with asperity, stung the boys to whom they had been directed.

Question 293

aspirant

Answer 293

N. /有志者；有抱负的人/seeker after position or status. Although I am an aspirant for public office, I am not willing to accept the dictates of the party bosses. Also ADJ.

Question 294

aspire

Answer 294

V. /热望；热心于/seek to attain; long for. Because he aspired to a career in professional sports, Philip enrolled in a graduate program in sports management. aspiration, N.

Question 295

assail

Answer 295

V. /攻击/assault. He was assailed with questions after his lecture.

Question 296

assay

Answer 296

V. /分析；化验/analyze; evaluate. When they assayed the ore, they found that they had discovered a very rich vein. also N.

Question 297

assent

Answer 297

V. /同意；接受/agree; accept. It gives me great pleasure to assent to your request.

Question 298

assert

Answer 298

V. /断言/declare or state with confidence; put oneself forward boldly. Malcolm asserted that if Reese quit acting like a wimp and asserted himself a bit more, he'd improve his chances of getting a date. assertion, N.

Question 299

assessment

Answer 299

N. /评价，评估；判断/evaluation; judgment. Your SAT I score plays a part in the admission committee's assessment of you as an applicant.

Question 300

assiduous

Answer 300

ADJ. /勤奋/diligent. He was assiduous, working at this task for weeks before he felt satisfied with his results. assiduity, N.

Question 301

assimilate

Answer 301

V. /吸收；同化/absorb; cause to become homogeneous. The manner in which the United States was able to assimilate the hordes of immigrants during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will always be a source of pride to Americans. The immigrants eagerly assimilated new ideas and customs; they soaked them up, the way plants soak up water.

Question 302

assuage

Answer 302

V. /减轻（痛苦）；满足（饥渴）；安慰/ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger). Jilted by Jane, Dick tried to assuage his heartache by indulging in ice cream. One gallon later, he had assuaged his appetite but not his grief.

Question 303

assumption

Answer 303

N. /假定，设想；采取/something taken for granted; taking over or taking possession of. The young princess made the foolish assumption that the regent would not object to her assumption of power. assume,V.

Question 304

assurance

Answer 304

N. /担保，保证；确定；自信/promise or pledge; certainty; self-confidence. When Guthrie gave Guinness his assurance that rehearsals were going well, he spoke with such assurance that Guinness felt relieved. assure,V.

Question 305

asteroid

Answer 305

N. /小行星/small planet. Asteroids have become commonplace to the readers of interstellar travel stories in science fiction magazines.

Question 306

astigmatism

Answer 306

N. /散光/eye defect that prevents proper focus. As soon as his parents discovered that the boy suffered from astigmatism, they took him to the optometrist for corrective glasses.

Question 307

astral

Answer 307

ADJ. /关于星的/relating to the stars. She was amazed at the number of astral bodies the new telescope revealed.

Question 308

astringent

Answer 308

ADJ. /收敛的/binding; causing contraction. The astringent quality of the unsweetened lemon juice made swallowing difficult. also N.

Question 309

astronomical

Answer 309

ADJ. /巨大，广阔/enormously large or extensive. The government seems willing to spend astronomical sums on weapons development.

Question 310

astute

Answer 310

ADJ. /聪明；敏锐/wise; shrewd; keen. The painter was an astute observer, noticing every tiny detail of her model's appearance and knowing exactly how important each one was.

Question 311

asunder

Answer 311

ADV. /分裂，分开/into parts; apart. A fierce quarrel split the partnership asunder: the two partners finally sundered their connections because their points of view were poles asunder.

Question 312

asylum

Answer 312

N. /庇护所/place of refuge or shelter; protection. The refugees sought asylum from religious persecution in a new land.

Question 313

asymmetric

Answer 313

ADJ. /不对称/not identical on both sides of a dividing central line. Because one eyebrow was set markedly higher than the other, William's face had a particularly asymmetric appearance.

Question 314

atavism

Answer 314

N. /反祖；隔代遗传/resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; deformity returning after passage of two or more generations. The doctors ascribed the child's deformity to an atavism.

Question 315

atheistic

Answer 315

ADJ. /无神论/denying the existence of God. His atheistic remarks shocked the religious worshippers.

Question 316

atlas

Answer 316

N. /地图集/a bound volume of maps, charts, or tables. Embarrassed at being unable to distinguish Slovenia from Slovakia, George W. finally consulted an atlas.

Question 317

atone

Answer 317

V. /补偿；偿还/make amends for; pay for. He knew no way in which he could atone for his brutal crime.

Question 318

atrocity

Answer 318

N. /暴行/brutal deed. In time of war, many atrocities are committed by invading armies.

Question 319

atrophy

Answer 319

N. /萎缩，变得没用/wasting away. Polio victims need physiotherapy to prevent the atrophy of affected limbs. alsoV.

Question 320

attain

Answer 320

V. /获得；完成/achieve or accomplish; gain. The scarecrow sought to attain one goal: he wished to obtain a brain.

Question 321

attentive

Answer 321

ADJ. /专心的，专注的；全神贯注/alert and watchful; considerate; thoughtful. Spellbound, the attentive audience watched the final game of the tennis match, never taking their eyes from the ball. A cold wind sprang up; Stan's attentive daughter slipped a sweater over his shoulders without distracting his attention from the game.

Question 322

attenuate

Answer 322

V. /削弱/make thin; weaken. By withdrawing their forces, the generals hoped to attenuate the enemy lines.

Question 323

attest

Answer 323

V. /证明/testify, bear witness. Having served as a member of the Grand Jury, I can attest that our system of indicting individuals is in need of improvement.

Question 324

attribute

Answer 324

N. /属性/essential quality. His outstanding attribute was his kindness.

Question 325

attribute

Answer 325

V. /归因于；解释/ascribe; explain. I attribute her success in science to the encouragement she received from her parents.

Question 326

attrition

Answer 326

N. /裁员；磨损/gradual decrease in numbers; reduction in the work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment. In the 1960s urban churches suffered from attrition as members moved from the cities to the suburbs. Rather than fire staff members, church leaders followed a policy of attrition, allowing elderly workers to retire without replacing them.

Question 327

atypical

Answer 327

ADJ. /非正常的，不正常/not normal. The child psychiatrist reassured Mrs. Keaton that playing doctor was not atypical behavior for a child of young Alex's age. "Yes," she replied, "but not charging for house calls!"

Question 328

audacious

Answer 328

ADJ. /大胆的；鲁莽的/daring; bold. Audiences cheered as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia made their audacious, deathdefying leap to freedom, escaping Darth Vader's troops. audacity, N.

Question 329

audit

Answer 329

N. /核算，稽核/examination of accounts. When the bank examiners arrived to hold their annual audit, they discovered the embezzlements of the chief cashier. Also V.

Question 330

auditory

Answer 330

ADJ. /听觉的/pertaining to the sense of hearing. Audrey suffered from auditory hallucinations: she thought Elvis was speaking to her from the Great Beyond.

Question 331

augment

Answer 331

V. /增长/increase; add to. Armies augment their forces by calling up reinforcements; teachers augment their salaries by taking odd jobs.

Question 332

augury

Answer 332

N. /占卜；预言/omen; prophecy. He interpreted the departure of the birds as an augury of evil. augur, V.

Question 333

august

Answer 333

ADJ. /威严的；令人印象深刻的/impressive; majestic. Visiting the palace at Versailles, she was impressed by the august surroundings in which she found herself.

Question 334

aureole

Answer 334

N. /日冕/sun's corona; halo. Many medieval paintings depict saintly characters with aureoles around their heads.

Question 335

auroral

Answer 335

ADJ. /曙光的，极光的/pertaining to the aurora borealis. The auroral display was particularly spectacular that evening.

Question 336

auspicious

Answer 336

ADJ. /幸运的，吉祥的/favoring success. With favorable weather conditions, it was an auspicious moment to set sail. Thomas, however, had doubts about sailing: a paranoid, he became suspicious whenever conditions seemed auspicious.

Question 337

austere

Answer 337

ADJ. /严厉的；朴素的/forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented. The headmaster's austere demeanor tended to scare off the more timid students, who never visited his study willingly. The room reflected the man, austere and bare, like a monk's cell, with no touches of luxury to moderate its austerity.

Question 338

authenticate

Answer 338

V. /鉴别/prove genuine. An expert was needed to authenticate the original Van Gogh painting, distinguishing it from its imitation.

Question 339

authoritarian

Answer 339

ADJ. /独裁/subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will. The leaders of the authoritarian regime ordered the suppression of the democratic protest movement. After years of submitting to the will of her authoritarian father, Elizabeth Barrett ran away from home with the poet Robert Browning.

Question 340

authoritative

Answer 340

ADJ. /权威；独裁/having the weight of authority; peremptory and dictatorial. Impressed by the young researcher's well-documented presentation, we accepted her analysis of the experiment as authoritative.

Question 341

autocratic

Answer 341

ADJ. /独裁/having absolute, unchecked power; dictatorial. Someone accustomed to exercising authority may become autocratic if his or her power is unchecked. Dictators by definition are autocrats. Bosses who dictate behavior as well as letters can be autocrats too.

Question 342

automaton

Answer 342

N. /机器人/mechanism that imitates actions of humans. Long before science fiction readers became aware of robots, writers were presenting stories of automatons who could outperform men.

Question 343

autonomous

Answer 343

ADJ. /自治/self-governing. Although the University of California at Berkeley is just one part of the state university system, in many ways Cal Berkeley is autonomous, for it runs several programs that are not subject to outside control. autonomy, N.

Question 344

autopsy

Answer 344

N. /验尸/examination of a dead body; post-mortem. The medical examiner ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Also V.

Question 345

auxiliary

Answer 345

ADJ. /辅助的/helper, additional or subsidiary. To prepare for the emergency, they built an auxiliary power station. also N.

Question 346

avalanche

Answer 346

N. /雪崩/great mass of falling snow and ice. The park ranger warned the skiers to stay on the main trails, where they would be in no danger of being buried beneath a sudden avalanche.

Question 347

avarice

Answer 347

N. /贪婪，贪财/greediness for wealth. King Midas is a perfect example of avarice, for he was so greedy that he wished everything he touched would turn to gold.

Question 348

avenge

Answer 348

V. /复仇/take vengeance for something (or on behalf of someone). Hamlet vowed he would avenge his father's murder and punish Claudius for his horrible crime.

Question 349

averse

Answer 349

ADJ. /反对的/reluctant; disinclined. The reporter was averse to revealing the sources of his information.

Question 350

aversion

Answer 350

N. /厌恶，抵制/firm dislike. Bert had an aversion to yuppies; Alex had an aversion to punks. Their mutual aversion was so great that they refused to speak to one another.

Question 351

avert

Answer 351

V. /转移；防止/prevent; turn away. She averted her eyes from the dead cat on the highway.

Question 352

aviary

Answer 352

N. /鸟舍/enclosure for birds. The aviary at the zoo held nearly 300 birds.

Question 353

avid

Answer 353

ADJ. /贪婪/greedy; eager for. He was avid for learning and read everything he could get. avidity, N.

Question 354

avocation

Answer 354

N. /副业，业余爱好/secondary or minor occupation. His hobby proved to be so fascinating and profitable that gradually he abandoned his regular occupation and concentrated on his avocation.

Question 355

avow

Answer 355

V. /宣布/declare openly. Lana avowed that she never meant to steal Debbie's boyfriend, but no one believed her avowal of innocence.

Question 356

avuncular

Answer 356

ADJ. /像伯父（叔叔）一样的/like an uncle. Avuncular pride did not prevent him from noticing his nephew's shortcomings.

Question 357

awe

Answer 357

N. /敬畏/solemn wonder. The tourists gazed with awe at the tremendous expanse of the Grand Canyon.

Question 358

awry

Answer 358

ADV. /扭曲的；歪曲的/distorted; crooked. He held his head awry, giving the impression that he had caught cold in his neck during the night. Also ADJ.

Question 359

axiom

Answer 359

N. /公理，自明的道理/self-evident truth requiring no proof. Before a student can begin to think along the lines of Euclidean geometry, he must accept certain principles or axioms.

Question 360

azure

Answer 360

ADJ. /天蓝/sky blue. Azure skies are indicative of good weather.

Question 361

babble

Answer 361

V. /嘟囔/chatter idly. The little girl babbled about her doll. Also N.

Question 362

bacchanalian

Answer 362

ADJ. /喝醉的，耍酒疯/drunken. Emperor Nero attended the bacchanalian orgy.

Question 363

badger

Answer 363

V. /激怒，纠缠/pester; annoy. She was forced to change her telephone number because she was badgered by obscene phone calls.

Question 364

badinage

Answer 364

N. /开玩笑，揶揄；取消/teasing conversation. Her friends at work greeted the news of her engagement with cheerful badinage.

Question 365

baffle

Answer 365

V. /挫败/frustrate; perplex. The new code baffled the enemy agents.

Question 366

bait

Answer 366

V. /欺负，玩弄，折磨/harass; tease. The school bully baited the smaller children, terrorizing them.

Question 367

baleful

Answer 367

ADJ. /恶意的，有害的/deadly; having a malign influence; ominous. The fortune teller made baleful predictions of terrible things to come.

Question 368

balk

Answer 368

V. /反对；阻止/foil or thwart; stop short; refuse to go on. When the warden learned that several inmates were planning to escape, he took steps to balk their attempt. However, he balked at punishing them by shackling them to the walls of their cells.

Question 369

ballast

Answer 369

N. /配重；沙袋/heavy substance used to add stability or weight. The ship was listing badly to one side; it was necessary to shift the ballast in the hold to get her back on an even keel. Also V.

Question 370

balm

Answer 370

N. /（止痛的）安慰物/something that relieves pain. Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Question 371

balmy

Answer 371

ADJ. /柔和的；芳香的/mild; fragrant. A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.

Question 372

banal

Answer 372

ADJ. /平凡，陈腐，老生常谈/hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality. The hack writer's worn-out clich6s made his comic sketch seem banal. He even resorted to the banality of having someone slip on a banana peel!

Question 373

bandy

Answer 373

V. /传话/discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly. While the president was happy to bandy patriotic generalizations with anyone who would listen to him, he refused to bandy words with unfriendly reporters at the press conference.

Question 374

bane

Answer 374

N. /祸根/cause of ruin; curse. Lucy's little brother was the bane of her existence: his attempts to make her life miserable worked so well that she could have poisoned him with ratsbane for having such a baneful effect.

Question 375

bantering

Answer 375

ADJ. /可笑的，嘲弄的/good-natured ridiculing. They resented his bantering remarks because they thought he was being sarcastic.

Question 376

barb

Answer 376

N. /鱼钩，钩状物/sharp projection from fishhook, etc.; openly cutting remark. If you were a politician, which would you prefer, being caught on the barb of a fishhook or being subjected to malicious verbal barbs? Who can blame the president if he's happier fishing than back in the capitol listening to his critics' barbed remarks?

Question 377

assessment

Answer 377

N. /评价，评估；判断/evaluation; judgment. Your SAT I score plays a part in the admission committee's assessment of you as an applicant.

Question 378

assiduous

Answer 378

ADJ. /勤奋/diligent. He was assiduous, working at this task for weeks before he felt satisfied with his results. assiduity, N.

Question 379

assimilate

Answer 379

V. /吸收；同化/absorb; cause to become homogeneous. The manner in which the United States was able to assimilate the hordes of immigrants during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will always be a source of pride to Americans. The immigrants eagerly assimilated new ideas and customs; they soaked them up, the way plants soak up water.

Question 380

assuage

Answer 380

V. /减轻（痛苦）；满足（饥渴）；安慰/ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger). Jilted by Jane, Dick tried to assuage his heartache by indulging in ice cream. One gallon later, he had assuaged his appetite but not his grief.

Question 381

assumption

Answer 381

N. /假定，设想；采取/something taken for granted; taking over or taking possession of. The young princess made the foolish assumption that the regent would not object to her assumption of power. assume,V.

Question 382

assurance

Answer 382

N. /担保，保证；确定；自信/promise or pledge; certainty; self-confidence. When Guthrie gave Guinness his assurance that rehearsals were going well, he spoke with such assurance that Guinness felt relieved. assure,V.

Question 383

asteroid

Answer 383

N. /小行星/small planet. Asteroids have become commonplace to the readers of interstellar travel stories in science fiction magazines.

Question 384

astigmatism

Answer 384

N. /散光/eye defect that prevents proper focus. As soon as his parents discovered that the boy suffered from astigmatism, they took him to the optometrist for corrective glasses.

Question 385

bard

Answer 385

N. /（吟游）诗人/poet. The ancient bard Homer sang of the fall of Troy.

Question 386

baroque

Answer 386

ADJ. /华丽的/highly ornate. Accustomed to the severe lines of contemporary buildings, the architecture students found the flamboyance of baroque architecture amusing. They simply didn't go for baroque.

Question 387

barrage

Answer 387

N. /弹幕，火力网/barrier laid down by artillery fire. The company was forced to retreat through the barrage of heavy cannons.

Question 388

barren

Answer 388

ADJ. /荒芜的，贫瘠的/desolate; fruitless and unproductive; lacking. Looking out at the trackless, barren desert, Indiana Jones feared that his search for the missing expedition would prove barren.

Question 389

barricade

Answer 389

N. /屏障；障碍物/hastily put together defensive barrier; obstacle. Marius and his fellow students hurriedly improvised a rough barricade to block police access to the students' quarter. Malcolm and his brothers barricaded themselves in their bedroom to keep their mother from seeing the hole in the bedroom floor. alsoV.

Question 390

barterer

Answer 390

N. /交易商/trader. The barterer exchanged trinkets for the natives' furs. It seemed smarter to barter than to pay cash.

Question 391

bask

Answer 391

V. /享受（温暖）；愉快，舒适/luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth. Basking on the beach, she relaxed so completely that she fell asleep.

Question 392

bastion

Answer 392

N. /堡垒；工事/fortress; defense. The villagers fortified the town hall, hoping this improvised bastion could protect them from the guerillas' raids. .

Question 393

bate

Answer 393

V. /限制；抑制/let down; restrain. Until it was time to open the presents, the children had to bate their curiosity. bated,ADJ.

Question 394

bauble

Answer 394

N. /小玩意儿/trinket; trifle. The child was delighted with the bauble she had won in the grab bag.

Question 395

bawdy

Answer 395

ADJ. /猥亵的；下流的；卖淫的/indecent; obscene. Jack took offense at Jill's bawdy remarks. What kind of young man did she think he was?

Question 396

beam

Answer 396

N. /光束；铁梁，木梁；一束电波/ray of light; long piece of metal or wood; course of a radio signal. V. smile radiantly. If a beam of light falls on you, it illuminates you; if a beam of iron falls on you, it eliminates you. (No one feels like beaming when crushed by an iron beam.)

Question 397

beatific

Answer 397

ADJ. /祝福；幸福的/giving bliss; blissful. The beatific smile on the child's face made us very happy.

Question 398

beatitude

Answer 398

N. /祝福/blessedness; state of bliss. Growing closer to God each day, the mystic achieved a state of indescribable beatitude.

Question 399

bedizen

Answer 399

V. /俗丽，俗气/dress with vulgar finery. The witch doctors were bedizened in all their gaudiest costumes.

Question 400

bedraggle

Answer 400

V. /邋遢的；湿的/wet thoroughly; stain with mud. We were so bedraggled by the severe storm that we had to change into dry clothing. bedraggled,ADJ.

Question 401

beeline

Answer 401

N. /直线/direct, quick route. As soon as the movie was over, Jim made a beeline for the exit.

Question 402

befuddle

Answer 402

V. /迷惑/confuse thoroughly. His attempts to clarify the situation succeeded only in befuddling her further.

Question 403

beget

Answer 403

V. /得子；产生/father; produce; give rise to. One good turn may deserve another; it does not necessarily beget another.

Question 404

begrudge

Answer 404

V. /愤恨；嫉妒/resent. I begrudge every minute I have to spend attending meetings; they're a complete waste of time.

Question 405

beguile

Answer 405

V. /欺骗，骗住；消磨时间/mislead or delude; pass time. With flattery and big talk of easy money, the con men beguiled Kyle into betting his allowance on the shell game. Broke, he beguiled himself during the long hours by playing solitaire.

Question 406

behemoth

Answer 406

N. /怪物；怪兽/huge creature; monstrous animal. Sportscasters nicknamed the linebacker "The Behemoth."

Question 407

belabor

Answer 407

V. /嘴贫，过度的说；谩骂/explain or go over excessively or to a ridiculous degree; attack verbally. The debate coach warned her student not to bore the audience by belaboring her point.

Question 408

belated

Answer 408

ADJ. /推迟的，延期的/delayed. He apologized for his belated note of condolence to the widow of his friend and explained that he had just learned of her husband's untimely death.

Question 409

beleaguer

Answer 409

V. /攻击；使烦恼/besiege or attack; harassed. The babysitter was surrounded by a crowd of unmanageable brats who relentlessly beleaguered her.

Question 410

belie

Answer 410

V. /掩饰，造成假象；矛盾/contradict; give a false impression. His coarse, hard-bitten exterior belied his inner sensitivity.

Question 411

belittle

Answer 411

V. /蔑视，使渺小/disparage or depreciate; put down. Parents should not belittle their children's early attempts at drawing, but should encourage their efforts. Barry was a put-down artist: he was a genius at belittling people and making them feel small.

Question 412

bellicose

Answer 412

ADJ. /好斗的，好战的/warlike. His bellicose disposition alienated his friends.

Question 413

belligerent

Answer 413

ADJ. /好斗的，好斗嘴的/quarrelsome. Whenever he had too much to drink, he became belligerent and tried to pick fights with strangers. belligerence, N.

Question 414

bemoan

Answer 414

V. /哀叹，悲伤/lament; express disapproval of. The widow bemoaned the death of her beloved husband. Although critics bemoaned the serious flaws in the author's novels, each year his latest book topped the best-seller list.

Question 415

bemused

Answer 415

ADJ. /困惑的，发呆的/confused; lost in thought; preoccupied. Jill studied the garbled instructions with a bemused look on her face.

Question 416

benediction

Answer 416

N. /祝福/blessing. The appearance of the sun after the many rainy days was like a benediction.

Question 417

benefactor

Answer 417

N. /恩人，赞助人/gift giver; patron. Scrooge later became Tiny Tim's benefactor and gave him gifts.

Question 418

beneficial

Answer 418

ADJ. /有用的/helpful; useful. Tiny Tim's cheerful good nature had a beneficial influence on Scrooge's onceuncharitable disposition.

Question 419

beneficiary

Answer 419

N. /（遗产）受益人/person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will. In Scrooge's will, he made Tiny Tim his beneficiary. everything he left would go to young Tim.

Question 420

benevolent

Answer 420

ADJ. /慈善的/generous; charitable. Mr. Fezziwig was a benevolent employer, who wished to make Christmas merrier for young Scrooge and his other employees.

Question 421

benign

Answer 421

ADJ. /良性的，好的；和蔼可亲的/kindly; favorable; not malignant. Though her benign smile and gentle bearing made Miss Marple seem a sweet little old lady, in reality she was a tough-minded, shrewd observer of human nature. benignity, N.

Question 422

bent

Answer 422

ADJ; N. /先天的/determined; natural talent or inclination. Bent on advancing in the business world, the secretary-heroine of Working Girl has a true bent for high finance.

Question 423

bequeath

Answer 423

V. /遗赠，（代代）相传/leave to someone by a will; hand down. Though Maud had intended to bequeath the family home to her nephew, she died before changing her will. bequest, N.

Question 424

berate

Answer 424

V. /严厉指责，谴责/scold strongly. He feared she would berate him for his forgetfulness.

Question 425

bereavement

Answer 425

N. /丧亲/state of being deprived of something valuable or beloved. His friends gathered to console him upon his sudden bereavement.

Question 426

bereft

Answer 426

ADJ. /失去的，缺少的/deprived of; lacking; desolate because of a loss. The foolish gambler soon found himself bereft of funds.

Question 427

berserk

Answer 427

ADV. /疯狂的，狂暴的/frenzied. Angered, he went berserk and began to wreck the room.

Question 428

beseech

Answer 428

V. /乞求，恳求/beg; plead with. The workaholic executive's wife beseeched him to spend more time with their son.

Question 429

beset

Answer 429

V. /困扰/harass or trouble; hem in. Many vexing problems beset the American public school system. Sleeping Beauty's castle was beset on all sides by dense thickets that hid it from view.

Question 430

besiege

Answer 430

V. /围攻/surround with armed forces; harass (with requests). When the bandits besieged the village, the villagers holed up in the town hall and prepared to withstand a long siege. Members of the new administration were besieged with job applications from people who had worked on the campaign.

Question 431

besmirch

Answer 431

V. /弄脏/soil, defile. The scandalous remarks in the newspaper besmirch the reputations of every member of the society.

Question 432

bestial

Answer 432

ADJ. /残忍的/beastlike; brutal. According to legend, the werewolf was able to abandon its human shape and take on a bestial form.

Question 433

bestow

Answer 433

V. /给予/give. He wished to bestow great honors upon the hero.

Question 434

betoken

Answer 434

V. /预示；表示/signify; indicate. The well-equipped docks, tall piles of cargo containers, and numerous vessels being loaded all betoken Oakland's importance as a port.

Question 435

betray

Answer 435

V. /出卖；背叛/be unfaithful; reveal (unconsciously or unwillingly). The spy betrayed his country by selling military secrets to the enemy. When he was taken in for questioning, the tightness of his lips betrayed his fear of being caught.

Question 436

betroth

Answer 436

V. /订婚/become engaged to marry. The announcement that they had become betrothed surprised their friends who had not suspected any romance. betrothal, N.

Question 437

bevy

Answer 437

N. /一群（少女，小鸟）/large group. The movie actor was surrounded by a bevyof starlets.

Question 438

biased

Answer 438

ADJ. /偏见的，偏差/slanted; prejudiced. Because the judge played golf regularly with the district attorney's father, we feared he might be biased in the prosecution's favor. bias, N.

Question 439

bicameral

Answer 439

ADJ. /两院制的（参，众）/two-chambered, as a legislative body. The United States Congress is a bicameral body.

Question 440

bicker

Answer 440

V. /争吵/quarrel. The children bickered morning, noon, and night, exasperating their parents.

Question 441

biennial

Answer 441

ADJ. /两年一度/every two years. Seeing no need to meet more frequently, the group held biennial meetings instead of annual ones. Plants that bear flowers biennially are known as biennials.

Question 442

bigotry

Answer 442

N. /固执/stubborn intolerance. Brought up in a democratic atmosphere, the student was shocked by the bigotry and narrowness expressed by several of his classmates.

Question 443

bilious

Answer 443

ADJ. /消化不良，易怒/suffering from indigestion; irritable. His bilious temperament was apparent to all who heard him rant about his difficulties.

Question 444

bilk

Answer 444

V. /骗/swindle; cheat. The con man specialized in bilking insurance companies.

Question 445

billowing

Answer 445

ADJ. /波涛翻滚/swelling out in waves; surging. Standing over the air vent, Marilyn Monroe tried vainly to control her billowing skirts.

Question 446

bivouac

Answer 446

N. /帐篷/temporary encampment. While in bivouac, we spent the night in our sleeping bags under the stars. alsoV.

Question 447

bizarre

Answer 447

ADJ. /怪异的/fantastic; violently contrasting. The plot of the novel was too bizarre to be believed.

Question 448

blanch

Answer 448

V. /漂白/bleach; whiten. Although age had blanched his hair, he was still vigorous and energetic.

Question 449

bland

Answer 449

ADJ. /温和的/soothing or mild; agreeable. Jill tried a bland ointment for her sunburn. However, when Jack absentmindedly patted her on the sunburned shoulder, she couldn't maintain a bland disposition.

Question 450

blandishment

Answer 450

N. /阿谀奉承/flattery. Despite the salesperson's blandishments, the customer did not buy the outfit.

Question 451

blare

Answer 451

N. /大声喊叫，令人眩晕的强光/loud, harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of light. I don't know which is worse: the steady blare of a boom box deafening your ears or a sudden blare of flashbulbs dazzling your eyes.

Question 452

blasé

Answer 452

ADJ. /厌于享乐/bored with pleasure or dissipation. Although Beth was as thrilled with the idea of a trip to Paris as her classmates were, she tried to act super cool and blasé, as if she'd been abroad hundreds of times.

Question 453

blasphemy

Answer 453

N. /亵渎/irreverence; sacrilege; cursing. In my father's house, the Dodgers were the holiest of holies; to cheer for another team was to utter words of blasphemy. blasphemous,ADJ.

Question 454

blatant

Answer 454

ADJ. /喧闹；俗丽/flagrant; conspicuously obvious; loudly offensive. To the unemployed youth from Dublin, the "No Irish Need Apply" placard in the shop window was a blatant mark of prejudice.

Question 455

bleak

Answer 455

ADJ. /冷淡；凄凉/cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable. The frigid, inhospitable Aleutian Islands are bleak military outposts. It's no wonder that soldiers assigned there have a bleak attitude toward their posting.

Question 456

blighted

Answer 456

ADJ. /完蛋了的；生病了的/suffering from a disease; destroyed. The extent of the blighted areas could be seen only when viewed from the air.

Question 457

blithe

Answer 457

ADJ. /欢乐，高兴/gay; joyous; heedless. Shelley called the skylark a "blithe spirit" because of its happy song.

Question 458

bloated

Answer 458

ADJ. /浮肿/swollen or puffed as with water or air. Her bloated stomach came from drinking so much water.

Question 459

bludgeon

Answer 459

N. /大头狼牙棒/club; heavy-headed weapon. Attacked by Dr. Moriarty, Holmes used his walking stick as a bludgeon to defend himself. "Watson," he said, "I fear I may have bludgeoned Moriarty to death."

Question 460

bluff

Answer 460

ADJ. /直率的/rough but good-natured. Jack had a bluff andhearty manner that belied his actual sensitivity; he never let people know how thin-skinned he really was.

Question 461

bluff

Answer 461

N. /虚伪；欺骗；悬崖/pretense (of strength); deception; high cliff. Claire thought Lord Byron's boast that he would swim the Hellespont was just a bluff; she was astounded when he dove from the high bluff into the waters below.

Question 462

blunder

Answer 462

N. /错误/error. The criminal's fatal blunder led to his capture. alsoV.

Question 463

blurt

Answer 463

V. /脱口而出/utter impulsively. Before she could stop him, he blurted out the news.

Question 464

bluster

Answer 464

V. /咆哮；吓唬/blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully. "Let the stormy winds bluster," cried Jack, "we'll set sail tonight." Jill let Jack bluster. she wasn't going anywhere, no matter what he said.

Question 465

bode

Answer 465

V. /预兆/foreshadow; portend. The gloomy skies and the sulphurous odors from the mineral springs seemed to bode evil to those who settled in the area.

Question 466

bogus

Answer 466

ADJ. /赝品/counterfeit; not authentic. The police quickly found the distributors of the bogus twenty-dollar bills.

Question 467

bohemian

Answer 467

ADJ. /不合习俗；放荡不羁/unconventional (in an artistic way). Gertrude Stein ran off to Paris to live an eccentric, bohemian life with her writer friends. Oakland was not bohemian: it was too bourgeois, too middle-class.

Question 468

boisterous

Answer 468

ADJ. /狂暴；喧嚣/violent; rough; noisy. The unruly crowd became even more boisterous when he tried to quiet them.

Question 469

bolster

Answer 469

V. /支持，增援/support; reinforce. The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolstertheir arguments.

Question 470

bolt

Answer 470

N. /门闩；螺钉；布匹的长度/door bar; fastening pin or screw; length of fabric. The carpenter shut the workshop door, sliding the heavy metal bolt into place. He sorted through his toolbox for the nuts and bolts and nails he would need. Before he cut into the bolt of canvas, he measured how much fabric he would need.

Question 471

bolt

Answer 471

V. /猛冲，上门闩，囫囵吞下/dash or dart off; fasten (a door); gobble down. Jack was set to bolt out the front door, but Jill bolted the door. "Eat your breakfast," she said, "don't bolt your food."

Question 472

bombardment

Answer 472

N. /轰击（导弹）/attack with missiles. The enemy bombardment demolished the town. Members of the opposition party bombarded the prime minister with questions about the enemy attack.

Question 473

bombastic

Answer 473

ADJ. /夸张的/pompous; using inflated language. Puffed up with conceit, the orator spoke in such a bombastic manner that we longed to deflate him. bombast, N.

Question 474

booming

Answer 474

ADJ. /快速增长的，欣欣向荣；深刻的/deep and resonant; flourishing, thriving. "Who needs a microphone?" cried the mayor in his booming voice. Cheerfully he boomed out that, thanks to him, the city's economy was booming. boom,V.

Question 475

boon

Answer 475

N. /恩惠，福利/blessing; benefit. The recent rains that filled our empty reservoirs were a boon to the whole community.

Question 476

boorish

Answer 476

ADJ. /粗鲁；笨拙/rude; clumsy; ungentlemanly. Natasha was embarrassed by her fellow spy's boorish behavior. "If you cannot act like a gentleman, Boris, go back to Russia: espionage is no job for clumsy boors." boor, N.

Question 477

boundless

Answer 477

ADJ. /无限的/unlimited; vast. Mike's energy was boundless: the greater the challenge, the more vigorously he tackled the job.

Question 478

bountiful

Answer 478

ADJ. /富足的；慷慨的/abundant; graciously generous. Thanks to the good harvest, we had a bountiful supply of food and we could be as bountiful as we liked in distributing food to the needy.

Question 479

bourgeois

Answer 479

ADJ. /中产阶级；平庸的/middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional. Technically, anyone who belongs to the middle class is bourgeois, but, given the word's connotations, most people resent it if you call them that.

Question 480

bovine

Answer 480

ADJ. /牛的；迟钝的；耐心的/cowlike; placid and dull. Nothing excites Esther; even when she won the state lottery, she still preserved her air of bovine calm.

Question 481

bowdlerize

Answer 481

V. /删除/expurgate. After the film editors had bowdlerized the language in the script, the motion picture's rating was changed from "R" to "PG."

Question 482

boycott

Answer 482

V. /抵制/refrain from buying or using. To put pressure on grape growers to stop using pesticides that harmed the farm workers' health, Cesar Chavez called for consumers to boycott grapes.

Question 483

braggart

Answer 483

N. /自夸，吹嘘/boaster. Modest by nature, she was no braggart, preferring to let her accomplishments speak for themselves.

Question 484

brandish

Answer 484

V. /挥舞/wave around; flourish. Alarmed, Doctor Watson wildly brandished his gun until Holmes told him to put the thing away before he shot himself.

Question 485

bravado

Answer 485

N. /虚张声势/swagger; assumed air of defiance. The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.

Question 486

brawn

Answer 486

N. /强壮的肌肉/muscular strength; sturdiness. It takes brawn to become a champion weightlifter. brawny,ADJ.

Question 487

brazen

Answer 487

ADJ. /厚颜无耻；傲慢/insolent. Her brazen contempt for authority angered the officials.

Question 488

breach

Answer 488

N. /违约；突破；打破/breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap. Jill sued Jack for breach of promise, claiming he had broken his promise to marry her. They found a breach in the enemy's fortifications and penetrated their lines. alsoV.

Question 489

breadth

Answer 489

N. /宽度/width; extent. We were impressed by the breadth of her knowledge.

Question 490

brevity

Answer 490

N. /简短，短暂/conciseness. Brevity is essential when you send a telegram or cablegram; you are charged for every word.

Question 491

brindled

Answer 491

ADJ. /有条纹或斑点的/tawny or grayish with streaks or spots. He was disappointed in the litter because the puppies were brindled, he had hoped for animals of a uniform color.

Question 492

bristling

Answer 492

ADJ. /竖立的/rising like bristles; showing irritation. The dog stood there, bristling with anger.

Question 493

brittle

Answer 493

ADJ. /易碎的；困难的/easily broken; difficult. My employer's self-control was as brittle as an egg-shell. Her brittle personality made it difficult for me to get along with her.

Question 494

broach

Answer 494

V. /介绍，提出，引见/introduce; open up. Jack did not even try to broach the subject of religion with his in-laws. If you broach a touchy subject, it may cause a breach.

Question 495

brochure

Answer 495

N. /小册子/pamphlet. This brochure on farming was issued by the Department of Agriculture.

Question 496

brooch

Answer 496

N. /胸针/ornamental clasp. She treasured the brooch because it was an heirloom.

Question 497

browbeat

Answer 497

V. /吓唬/bully; intimidate. Billy resisted Ted's attempts browbeat him into handing over his lunch money.

Question 498

browse

Answer 498

V. /吃草；浏览/graze; skim or glance at casually. "How now, brown cow, browsing in the green, green grass." I remember lines of verse that I came across while browsing through the poetry section of the local bookstore.

Question 499

brunt

Answer 499

N. /冲击/main impact or shock. Tom Sawyer claimed credit for painting the fence, but the brunt of the work fell on others. However, he bore the brunt of Aunt Polly's complaints when the paint began to peel.

Question 500

brusque

Answer 500

ADJ. /唐图；直率；粗暴无礼/blunt; abrupt. Was Bruce too brusque when he brushed off Bob's request with a curt "Not now!"?

Question 501

buccaneer

Answer 501

N. /海盗/pirate. At Disneyland the Pirates of the Caribbean sing a song about their lives as bloody buccaneers.

Question 502

bucolic

Answer 502

ADJ. /田园的/rustic; pastoral. Filled with browsing cows and bleating sheep, the meadow was a charmingly bucolic sight.

Question 503

buffet

Answer 503

N. /自助餐/table with food set out for people to serve themselves; meal at which people help themselves to food that's been set out. Please convey the soufflé on the tray to the buffet. (Buffet rhymes with tray.)

Question 504

buffet

Answer 504

V. /殴打，斗殴/slap; batter; knock about. To buffet something is to rough it up. (Buffet rhymes with Muffett.) Was Miss Muffett buffeted by the crowd on the way to the buffet tray?

Question 505

buffoonery

Answer 505

N. /滑稽的/clowning. In the Ace Ventura movies, Jim Carrey's buffoonery was hilarious: like Bozo the Clown, he's a natural buffoon.

Question 506

bullion

Answer 506

N. /金条，银条/gold and silver in the form of bars. Much bullion is stored in the vaults at Fort Knox.

Question 507

bulwark

Answer 507

N. /壁垒/earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends. The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.

Question 508

bumptious

Answer 508

ADJ. /盲目自大/self-assertive. His classmates called him a show-off because of his bumptious airs.

Question 509

bungalow

Answer 509

N. /小平房/small cottage. Every summer we rent a bungalow on Cape Cod for our vacation home. The rent is high, the roof is low-it's a basic bungalow.

Question 510

bungle

Answer 510

V. /搞砸/mismanage; blunder. Don't botch this assignment, Bumstead; if you bungle the job, you're fired!

Question 511

buoyant

Answer 511

ADJ. /可漂浮的，乐观的/able to float; cheerful and optimistic. When the boat capsized, her buoyant life jacket kept Jody afloat. Scrambling back on board, she was still in a buoyant mood, certain that despite the delay she'd win the race.

Question 512

bureaucracy

Answer 512

N. /官僚机构/over-regulated administrative system marked by red tape. The Internal Revenue Service is the ultimate bureaucracy. taxpayers wasted so much paper filling out IRS forms that the IRS bureaucrats printed up a new set of rules requiring taxpayers to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act.

Question 513

burgeon

Answer 513

V. /发芽，成长/grow forth; send out buds. In the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promise of the beauty that is to come.

Question 514

burlesque

Answer 514

V. /作秀，滑稽/give an imitation that ridicules. In Spaceballs, Rick Moranis burlesques Darth Vader of Star Wars, outrageously parodying Vader's stiff walk and hollow voice.

Question 515

burly

Answer 515

ADJ. /魁伟，结实/husky; muscular. The burly mover lifted the packing crate with ease.

Question 516

burnish

Answer 516

V. /擦拭/make shiny by rubbing; polish. The maid burnished the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamplight.

Question 517

bustle

Answer 517

V. /喧嚣，繁忙，熙熙攘攘/move about energetically; teem. David and the children bustled about the house getting in each other's way as they tried to pack for the camping trip. The whole house bustled with activity.

Question 518

buttress

Answer 518

V. /支持/support; prop up. The attorney came up with several far-fetched arguments in a vain attempt to buttress his weak case. also N.

Question 519

buxom

Answer 519

ADJ. /丰满；充满活力；欢快/plump; vigorous; jolly. The soldiers remembered the buxom nurse who had always been so pleasant to them.

Question 520

cabal

Answer 520

N. /内阁/small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests. The cabal was defeated when their scheme was discovered.

Question 521

cache

Answer 521

N. /藏身之处/hiding place. The detectives followed the suspect until he led them to the cache where he had stored his loot. He had cached the cash in a bag for trash: it was a hefty sum.

Question 522

cacophonous

Answer 522

ADJ. /不和谐/discordant; inharmonious. Do the students in the orchestra enjoy the cacophonous sounds they make when they're tuning up? I don't know how they can stand the racket. cacophony, N.

Question 523

cadaver

Answer 523

N. /尸体/corpse. In some states, it is illegal to dissect cadavers.

Question 524

cadaverous

Answer 524

ADJ. /尸体似的，苍白的/like a corpse; pale. By his cadaverous appearance, we could see how the disease had ravaged him.

Question 525

cadence

Answer 525

N. /平仄，重音/rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat. Marching down the road, the troops sang out, following the cadence set by the sergeant.

Question 526

cajole

Answer 526

V. /哄骗，勾引/coax; wheedle. Diane tried to cajole her father into letting her drive the family car. cajolery, N.

Question 527

calamity

Answer 527

N. /灾难，不幸/disaster; misery. As news of the calamity spread, offers of relief poured in to the stricken community.

Question 528

calculated

Answer 528

ADJ. /预先计划好的，算好的；合适的/deliberately planned; likely. Lexy's choice of clothes to wear to the debate tournament was carefully calculated. Her conventional suit was one calculated to appeal to the conservative judges.

Question 529

caldron

Answer 529

N. /大锅/large kettle. "Why, Mr. Crusoe," said the savage heating the giant caldron, "we'd love to have you for dinner!"

Question 530

caliber

Answer 530

N. /能力；品质/ability; quality. Einstein's cleaning the blackboards again? Albert, quit it! A man of your caliber shouldn't have to do such menial tasks.

Question 531

calligraphy

Answer 531

N. /漂亮的书法/beautiful writing; excellent penmanship. As we examine ancient manuscripts, we become impressed with the calligraphy of the scribes.

Question 532

callous

Answer 532

ADJ. /硬心肠的，无情的/hardened; unfeeling. He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards. callus, N.

Question 533

callow

Answer 533

ADJ. /年幼，稚嫩；无经验/youthful; immature; inexperienced. As a freshman, Jack was sure he was a man of the world; as a sophomore, he made fun of freshmen as callow youths. In both cases, his judgment showed just how callow he was.

Question 534

calorific

Answer 534

ADJ. /产热的/heat-producing. Coal is much more calorific than green wood.

Question 535

calumny

Answer 535

N. /诽谤；中伤/malicious misrepresentation; slander. He could endure his financial failure, but he could not bear the calumny that his foes heaped upon him.

Question 536

camaraderie

Answer 536

N. /友情/good-fellowship. What he loved best about his job was the sense of camaraderie he and his coworkers shared.

Question 537

cameo

Answer 537

N. /贝壳上的浮雕；特写（演员）/shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film. Don't bother buying cameos from the street peddlers in Rome: the carvings they sell are clumsy jobs. Did you enjoy Bill Murray's cameo in Little Shop of Horrors? He was onscreen for only a minute, but he cracked me up.

Question 538

camouflage

Answer 538

V. /伪装/disguise; conceal. In order to rescue Han Solo, Princess Leia camouflaged herself in the helmet and cloak of a space bandit.

Question 539

candor

Answer 539

N. /开诚布公；坦率/frankness; open honesty. Jack can carry candor too far: when he told Jill his honest opinion of her, she nearly slapped his face. candid,ADJ.

Question 540

canine

Answer 540

ADJ. /狗的/related to dogs; dog-like. Some days the canine population of Berkeley seems almost to outnumber the human population,

Question 541

canny

Answer 541

ADJ. /谨慎的；节约的/shrewd; thrifty. The canny Scotsman was more than a match for the swindlers.

Question 542

cant

Answer 542

N. /伪善；黑话/insincere expressions of piety; jargon of thieves. Shocked by news of the minister's extramarital love affairs, the worshippers dismissed his talk about the sacredness of marriage as mere cant. Cant is a form of hypocrisy: those who can, pray; those who cant, pretend.

Question 543

cantankerous

Answer 543

ADJ. /脾气坏；易发怒/ill humored; irritable. Constantly complaining about his treatment and refusing to cooperate with the hospital staff, he was a cantankerous patient.

Question 544

cantata

Answer 544

N. /大合唱；康塔塔/story set to music, to be sung by a chorus. The choral society sang the new cantata composed by its leader.

Question 545

canter

Answer 545

N. /慢跑/slow gallop. Because the racehorse had outdistanced its competition so easily, the reporter wrote that the race was won in a canter. also V.

Question 546

canto

Answer 546

N. /（长诗的）分篇/division of a long poem. Dante's poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy is divided into cantos.

Question 547

canvass

Answer 547

V. /调查；投票/determine votes, etc. After canvassing the sentiments of his constituents, the congressman was confident that he represented the majority opinion of his district. also N.

Question 548

capacious

Answer 548

DJ. /宽敞的/spacious. In the capacious rotunda of the railroad terminal, thousands of travelers lingered while waiting for their train.

Question 549

capacity

Answer 549

N. /能力；角色/mental or physical ability; role; ability to accommodate. Mike had the capacity to handle several jobs at once. In his capacity as president of SelecTronics he marketed an electronic dictionary with a capacity of 200,000 words.

Question 550

capitulate

Answer 550

V. /投降/surrender. The enemy was warned to capitulate or face annihilation.

Question 551

caprice

Answer 551

N. /反复无常；一时幻想；奇怪的想法/sudden, unexpected fancy; whim. On a caprice, Jack tried drag-racing, but paid the price-his father took his Chevy Caprice away from him.

Question 552

capricious

Answer 552

ADJ. /反复无常的/unpredictable; fickle. The storm was capricious: it changed course constantly. Jill was capricious, too: she changed boyfriends almost as often as she changed clothes.

Question 553

caption

Answer 553

N. /标题/title; chapter heading; text under illustration. The captions that accompany The Far Side cartoons are almost as funny as the pictures. alsoV.

Question 554

captivate

Answer 554

V. /迷住；迷惑/charm or enthrall. Bart and Lisa were captivated by their new nanny's winning manner.

Question 555

carat

Answer 555

N. /克拉；开；K/unit of weight for precious stones; measure of fineness of gold. He gave her a three-carat diamond mounted in an eighteen-carat gold band.

Question 556

cardinal

Answer 556

ADJ. /主要的/chief. If you want to increase your word power, the cardinal rule of vocabulary-building is to read.

Question 557

cardiologist

Answer 557

N. /心脏病专家/doctor specializing in the heart. When the pediatrician noticed Philip had a slight heart murmur, she referred him to a cardiologist for further tests.

Question 558

careen

Answer 558

V. /倾斜/lurch; sway from side to side. The taxicab careened wildly as it rounded the corner.

Question 559

caricature

Answer 559

N. /歪曲；漫画；讽刺画/distortion; burlesque. The caricatures he drew always emphasized a personal weakness of the people he burlesqued. alsoV.

Question 560

carnage

Answer 560

N. /残杀；大屠杀/destruction of life. The film The Killing Fields vividly depicts the carnage wreaked by Pol Pot's followers in Cambodia.

Question 561

carnal

Answer 561

ADJ. /肉体的；欲望的/fleshly. Is the public more interested in carnal pleasures than in spiritual matters? Compare the number of people who read Playboy daily to the number of those who read the Bible or Koran every day.

Question 562

carnivorous

Answer 562

ADJ. /食肉的/meat-eating. The lion's a carnivorous beast. A hunk of meat makes up his feast. A cow is not a carnivore. She likes the taste of grain, not gore.

Question 563

carping

Answer 563

ADJ. /挑剔的，吹毛求疵/finding fault. A carping critic is a nit-picker: he loves to point out flaws. If you don't like this definition, feel free to carp.

Question 564

cartographer

Answer 564

N. /制图者，制地图的人/map-maker. Though not a professional cartographer, Tolkien was able to construct a map of his fictional world.

Question 565

cascade

Answer 565

N. /小瀑布/small waterfall. We were too tired to appreciate the beauty of the many cascades because we had to detour around them to avoid being drenched by the water cascading down.

Question 566

castigate

Answer 566

V. /严厉批评；惩罚/criticize severely; punish. When the teacher threatened that she would castigate the mischievous boys if they didn't behave, they shaped up in a hurry.

Question 567

casualty

Answer 567

N. /严重的事故；伤亡/serious or fatal accident. The number of automotive casualties on this holiday weekend was high.

Question 568

cataclysm

Answer 568

N. /巨变；剧变；灾难/upheaval; deluge. A cataclysm such as the French Revolution affects all countries. cataclysmic,ADJ.

Question 569

catalyst

Answer 569

N. /催化剂/agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged. Many chemical reactions cannot take place without the presence of a catalyst.

Question 570

catapult

Answer 570

N. /弹弓；弹舐器/slingshot; a hurling machine. Airplanes are sometimes launched from battleships by catapults. alsoV.

Question 571

cataract

Answer 571

N. /大瀑布；白内障/great waterfall; eye abnormality. She gazed with awe at the mighty cataract known as Niagara Falls.

Question 572

catastrophe

Answer 572

N. /灾难/calamity; disaster. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a catastrophe that destroyed most of the city. A similar earthquake striking today could have even more catastrophic results.

Question 573

catcall

Answer 573

N. /嘘声/shout of disapproval; boo. Every major league pitcher has off days during which he must learn to ignore the catcalls and angry hisses from the crowd.

Question 574

catechism

Answer 574

N. /教义问答手册；FAQ,Q&A/book for religious instruction; instruction by question and answer. He taught by engaging his pupils in a catechism until they gave him the correct answer.

Question 575

categorical

Answer 575

ADJ. /无条件；直截了当/without exceptions; unqualified; absolute. Though the captain claimed he was never, never sick at sea, he finally had to qualify his categorical denial: he was "hardly ever" sick at sea.

Question 576

cater to

Answer 576

V. /迎合/supply something desired (whether good or bad). The chef was happy to cater to the tastes of his highly sophisticated clientele. Critics condemned the movie industry for catering to the public's ever-increasing appetite for violence.

Question 577

catharsis

Answer 577

N. /导泻，通便；疏泄/purging or cleansing of any passage of the body. Aristotle maintained that tragedy created a catharsis by purging the soul of base concepts.

Question 578

catholic

Answer 578

ADJ. /一般的，普遍的；天主教/broadly sympathetic; liberal. He was extremely catholic in his taste and read everything he could find in the library.

Question 579

caucus

Answer 579

N. /核心小组会议（秘密）/private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy. At the opening of Congress, the members of the Democratic Party held a caucus to elect the Majority Leader of the House and the Party Whip.

Question 580

caulk

Answer 580

V. /填；补漏/make watertight by filling in cracks. Jack had to caulk the tiles in the shower stall to stop the leak into the basement below.

Question 581

causal

Answer 581

ADJ. /因果关系的/implying a cause-and-effect relationship. The psychologist maintained there was a causal relationship between the nature of one's early childhood experiences and one's adult personality. causality, N.

Question 582

caustic

Answer 582

ADJ. /腐蚀；挖苦/burning; sarcastically biting. The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.

Question 583

cavalcade

Answer 583

N. /队伍/procession; parade. As described by Chaucer, the cavalcade of Canterbury pilgrims was a motley group.

Question 584

cavalier

Answer 584

ADJ. /随便；傲慢/offhand or casual; haughty. The disguised prince resented the cavalier way in which the palace guards treated him. How dared they handle a member of the royal family so unceremoniously!

Question 585

cavil

Answer 585

V. /挑剔/make frivolous objections. It's fine when you make sensible criticisms, but it really bugs me when you cavil about unimportant details. also N.

Question 586

cede

Answer 586

V. /放弃；屈服于；投降/yield (title, territory) to; surrender formally. Eventually the descendants of England's Henry II were forced to cede their French territories to the King of France.

Question 587

celebrated

Answer 587

ADJ. /名人/famous; well-known. Thanks to their race to break Roger Maris's home-run record, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are two of America's most celebrated baseball players. celebrity, N.

Question 588

celerity

Answer 588

N. /速度/speed; rapidity. Hamlet resented his mother's celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death.

Question 589

celestial

Answer 589

ADJ. /天体的/heavenly. She spoke of the celestial joys that awaited virtuous souls in the hereafter.

Question 590

celibate

Answer 590

ADJ. /未婚的，独身的/unmarried; abstaining from sexual intercourse. The perennial bachelor vowed to remain celibate. celibacy, N.

Question 591

censor

Answer 591

N. /审查/overseer of morals; person who reads to eliminate inappropriate remarks. Soldiers dislike having their mail read by a censor but understand the need for this precaution. alsoV.

Question 592

censorious

Answer 592

ADJ. /批判的/critical. Censorious people delight in casting blame.

Question 593

censure

Answer 593

V. /责怪；批评/blame; criticize. The senator was censured for behavior inappropriate to a member of Congress. also N.

Question 594

centigrade

Answer 594

ADJ. /华氏/measure of temperature used widely in Europe. On the centigrade thermometer, the freezing point of water is zero degrees.

Question 595

centrifugal

Answer 595

ADJ. /离心；放舐/radiating; departing from the center. Many automatic drying machines remove excess moisture from clothing by centrifugal force.

Question 596

centripetal

Answer 596

ADJ. /向心/tending toward the center. Does centripetal force or the force of gravity bring orbiting bodies to the earth's surface?

Question 597

centurion

Answer 597

N. /百夫长/Roman army officer. Because he was in command of a company of one hundred soldiers, he was called a centurion.

Question 598

cerebral

Answer 598

ADJ. /脑的；智力的/pertaining to the brain or intellect. The content of philosophical works is cerebral in nature and requires much thought.

Question 599

cerebration

Answer 599

N. /思考/thought. Mathematics problems sometimes require much cerebration.

Question 600

ceremonious

Answer 600

ADJ. /隆重的/marked by formality. Ordinary dress would be inappropriate at so ceremonious an affair.

Question 601

certitude

Answer 601

N. /确实/certainty. Though there was no certitude of his getting the job, Lou thought he had a good chance of doing so.

Question 602

cessation

Answer 602

N. /停止/stoppage. The airline's employees threatened a cessation of all work if management failed to meet their demands. cease,V.

Question 603

cession

Answer 603

N. /给与；割让/yielding to another; ceding. The cession of Alaska to the United States is discussed in this chapter.

Question 604

chafe

Answer 604

V. /摩擦；擦热/warm by rubbing; make sore (by rubbing). Chilled, he chafed his hands before the fire. The collar of his school uniform chafed Tom's neck, but not as much the school's strict rules chafed his spirit. also N.

Question 605

chaff

Answer 605

N. /废物；糠；假货；开玩笑；打趣/worthless products of an endeavor. When you separate the wheat from the chaff, be sure you throw out the chaff.

Question 606

chaffing

Answer 606

ADJ. /开玩笑/bantering; joking. Sometimes Chad's flippant, chaffing remarks annoy us. Still, Chad's chaffing keeps us laughing. also N.

Question 607

chagrin

Answer 607

N. /伤自尊；委屈/vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride); disappointment. Embarrassed by his parents' shabby, working-class appearance, Doug felt their visit to his school would bring him nothing but chagrin. Someone filled with chagrin doesn't grin: he's too mortified.

Question 608

chalice

Answer 608

N. /圣餐杯/goblet; consecrated cup. In a small room adjoining the cathedral, many ornately decorated chalices made by the most famous European goldsmiths were on display.

Question 609

chameleon

Answer 609

N. /变色龙/lizard that changes color in different situations. Like the chameleon, he assumed the political thinking of every group he met.

Question 610

champion

Answer 610

V. /拥护/support militantly. Martin Luther King, Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize because he championed the oppressed in their struggle for equality.

Question 611

Chaotic

Answer 611

ADJ. /混乱/in utter disorder. He tried to bring order into the chaotic state of affairs. chaos, N.

Question 612

charisma

Answer 612

N. /魅力/divine gift; great popular charm or appeal of a political leader Political commentators have deplored the importance of a candidate's charisma in these days of television campaigning.

Question 613

charlatan

Answer 613

N. /吹牛/quack; pretender to knowledge. When they realized that the Wizard didn't know how to get them back to Kansas, Dorothy and her companions were indignant that they'd been duped by a charlatan.

Question 614

chary

Answer 614

ADJ. /谨慎；吝啬/cautious; sparing or restrained about giving. A prudent, thrifty, New Englander, DeWitt was as chary of investing money in junk bonds as he was chary of paying people unnecessary compliments.

Question 615

chasm

Answer 615

N. /深渊/abyss. They could not see the bottom of the chasm.

Question 616

chassis

Answer 616

N. /底盘/framework and working parts of an automobile. Examining the car after the accident, the owner discovered that the body had been ruined but that the chassis was unharmed.

Question 617

chaste

Answer 617

ADJ. /纯的/pure. Her chaste and decorous garb was appropriately selected for the solemnity of the occasion. chastity, N.

Question 618

chasten

Answer 618

V. /磨练/discipline; punish in order to correct. Whom God loves, God chastens.

Question 619

chastise

Answer 619

V. /惩罚/punish. I must chastise you for this offense.

Question 620

chauvinist

Answer 620

N. /盲目爱国主义/blindly devoted patriot. A chauvinist cannot recognize any faults in his country, no matter how flagrant they may be. Likewise, a male chauvinist cannot recognize his bias in favor of his own sex, no matter how flagrant that may be. chauvinistic,ADJ.

Question 621

check

Answer 621

V. /控制；阻止/stop motion; curb or restrain. Thrusting out her arm, Grandma checked Bobby's lunge at his sister. "Young man," she said, "you'd better check your temper." (secondary meaning)

Question 622

checkered

Answer 622

ADJ. /多变的；像国际象棋棋盘一样的方格/marked by changes in fortune. During his checkered career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boardinghouses.

Question 623

cherubic

Answer 623

ADJ. /天真无邪/angelic; innocent-looking. With her cheerful smile and rosy cheeks, she was a particularly cherubic child.

Question 624

chicanery

Answer 624

N. /强辩，狡辩；欺骗/trickery; deception. Those sneaky lawyers misrepresented what occurred, made up all sorts of implausible alternative scenarios to confuse the jurors, and in general depended on chicanery to win the case.

Question 625

chide

Answer 625

V. /斥责/scold. Grandma began to chide Steven for his lying.

Question 626

chimerical

Answer 626

ADJ. /不现实，空想/fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative. As everyone expected, Ted's chimerical scheme to make a fortune by raising ermines in his back yard proved a dismal failure.

Question 627

chisel

Answer 627

N. /凿子/wedgelike tool for cutting. With his hammer and chisel, the sculptor chipped away at the block of marble.

Question 628

chisel

Answer 628

V. /欺骗/swindle or cheat; cut with a chisel. That crook chiseled me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that "marble" statue he'd chiseled out of some cheap hunk of rock.

Question 629

Chivalrous

Answer 629

ADJ. /勇敢；诚实/courteous; faithful; brave. Chivalrous behavior involves noble words and good deeds.

Question 630

choleric

Answer 630

ADJ. /易发怒的；脾气坏/hot-tempered. His flushed, angry face indicated a choleric nature.

Question 631

choreography

Answer 631

N. /舞蹈术；舞蹈记谱/art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances. Merce Cunningham has begun to use a computer in designing choreography. a software program allows him to compose arrangements of possible moves and immediately view them onscreen.

Question 632

chortle

Answer 632

V. /得意的笑/chuckle with delight. When she heard that her rival had just been jailed for embezzlement, she chortled with joy. She was not a nice lady.

Question 633

chronic

Answer 633

ADJ. /慢性的/long established as a disease. The doctors were finally able to attribute his chronic headaches and nausea to traces of formaldehyde gas in his apartment.

Question 634

chronicle

Answer 634

V. /编年史/report; record (in chronological order). The gossip columnist was paid to chronicle the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities. also N.

Question 635

churlish

Answer 635

ADJ. /粗鲁的/boorish; rude. Dismayed by his churlish mapners at the party, the girls vowed never to invite him again.

Question 636

cipher

Answer 636

N. /密码/secret code. Lacking his code book, the spy was unable to decode the message sent to him in cipher.

Question 637

cipher

Answer 637

N. /不重要的人或物/nonentity; worthless person or thing. She claimed her ex-husband was a total cipher and wondered why she had ever married him.

Question 638

circuitous

Answer 638

ADJ. /迂回的/roundabout. To avoid the traffic congestion on the main highways, she took a circuitous route. circuit, N.

Question 639

circumlocution

Answer 639

N. /婉转曲折的表达/indirect or roundabout expression. He was afraid to call a spade a spade and resorted to circumlocutions to avoid direct reference to his subject.

Question 640

circumscribe

Answer 640

V. /限制/limit; confine. Although I do not wish to circumscribe your activities, I must insist that you complete this assignment before you start anything else.

Question 641

circumspect

Answer 641

ADJ. /慎重；周到/prudent; cautious. Investigating before acting, she tried always to be circumspect.

Question 642

circumvent

Answer 642

V. /智取；包围/outwit; baffle. In order to circumvent the enemy, we will make two preliminary attacks in other sections before starting our major campaign.

Question 643

cistern

Answer 643

N. /水塔；水库/reservoir or water tank. The farmers were able to withstand the dry season by using rainwater they had stored in an underground cistern.

Question 644

citadel

Answer 644

N. /大本营/fortress. The citadel overlooked the city like a protecting angel.

Question 645

cite

Answer 645

V. /引用；掌握/quote; command. She could cite passages in the Bible from memory. citation, N.

Question 646

civil

Answer 646

ADJ. /民事的；国民的/having to do with citizens or the state; courteous and polite. Although Internal Revenue Service agents are civil servants, they are not always civil to suspected tax cheats.

Question 647

clairvoyant

Answer 647

ADJ. N. /预知；预言者/having foresight; fortuneteller. Cassandra's clairvoyant warning was not heeded by the Trojans. clairvoyance, N.

Question 648

clamber

Answer 648

V. /爬/climb by crawling. She clambered over the wall.

Question 649

clamor

Answer 649

N. /吵闹声；噪音/noise. The clamor of the children at play outside made it impossible for her to take a nap. alsoV.

Question 650

clandestine

Answer 650

ADJ. /秘密/secret. After avoiding their chaperon, the lovers had a clandestine meeting.

Question 651

clangor

Answer 651

N. /大声喧哗；持续的铿锵声/loud, resounding noise. The blacksmith was accustomed to the clangor of hammers on steel.

Question 652

clapper

Answer 652

N. /铃舌，钟舌/striker (tongue) of a bell. Wishing to be undisturbed by the bell, Dale wound his scarf around the clapper to muffle the noise of its striking.

Question 653

clasp

Answer 653

N. /扣合；紧密合作/fastening device; firm grip. When the clasp on Judy's bracelet broke, Fred repaired it, bending the hook back into shape. He then helped her slip on the bracelet, holding it firm in the sure clasp of his hand.

Question 654

claustrophobia

Answer 654

N. /幽闭恐怖症/fear of being locked in. His fellow classmates laughed at his claustrophobia and often threatened to lock him in his room.

Question 655

cleave

Answer 655

V. /劈开；黏着；忠于/split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to. With her heavy cleaver, Julia Child can cleave a whole roast duck in two. Soaked through, the soldier tugged at the uniform that cleaved annoyingly to his body. He would cleave to his post, come rain or shine.

Question 656

Cleft

Answer 656

N. /裂缝；开裂/split. Trying for a fresh handhold, the mountainclimber grasped the edge of a cleft in the sheer rockface. alsoADJ.

Question 657

clemency

Answer 657

N. /温和；仁慈/disposition to be lenient; mildness, as of the weather. The lawyer was pleased when the case was sent to Judge Smith's chambers because Smith was noted for her clemency toward first offenders.

Question 658

clench

Answer 658

V. /牢牢抓住/close tightly; grasp. "Open wide," said the dentist, but Clint clenched his teeth even more tightly than before.

Question 659

cliché

Answer 659

N. /陈词滥调/phrase dulled in meaning by repetition. High school compositions are often marred by such clichés as "strong as an ox."

Question 660

clientele

Answer 660

N. /常客/body of customers. The rock club attracted a young, stylish clientele.

Question 661

climactic

Answer 661

ADJ. /顶点的，高潮的/relating to the highest point. When he reached the climactic portions of the book, he could not stop reading. climax, N.

Question 662

clime

Answer 662

N. /地域；气候/region; climate. His doctor advised him to move to a milder clime.

Question 663

clip

Answer 663

N. /剪辑/section of filmed material. Phil's job at Fox Sports involved selecting clips of the day's sporting highlights for later broadcast. alsoV.

Question 664

clique

Answer 664

N. /小圈子；同行/small exclusive group. Fitzgerald wished that he belonged to the clique of popular athletes and big men on campus who seemed to run Princeton's social life.

Question 665

cloister

Answer 665

N. /修道院/monastery or convent. The nuns lived a secluded life in the cloister.

Question 666

Clout

Answer 666

N. /巨大的影响（政治\社会）/great influence (especially political or social). Gatsby wondered whether he had enough clout to be admitted to the exclusive club.

Question 667

cloying

Answer 667

ADJ. /倒胃口；过度的/distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental. Disliking the cloying sweetness of standard wedding cakes, Jody and Tom chose to have homemade carrot cake at the reception. cloy,V.

Question 668

Clump

Answer 668

N. /一块，一团；沉重的脚步声；草丛，灌木丛/cluster or close group (of bushes, trees); mass; sound of heavy treading. Hiding behind the clump of bushes, the fugitives waited for the heavy clump of the soldiers' feet to fade away.

Question 669

coagulate

Answer 669

V. /凝结/thicken; congeal; clot. Even after you remove the pudding from the burner, it will continue to coagulate as it stands; therefore, do not overcook the pudding, lest it become too thick.

Question 670

coalesce

Answer 670

V. /接合/combine; fuse. The brooks coalesce into one large river. When minor political parties coalesce, their coalescence may create a major coalition.

Question 671

coalition

Answer 671

N. /伙伴；同盟，集合/partnership; league; union. The Rainbow Coalition united people of all races in a common cause.

Question 672

coddle

Answer 672

V. /娇养，溺爱/to treat gently. Don't coddle the children so much; they need a taste of discipline.

Question 673

codicil

Answer 673

N. /遗嘱的附录/supplement to the body of a will. Miss Havisham kept her lawyers busy drawing up codicils to add to her already complicated will.

Question 674

codify

Answer 674

V. /编纂/arrange (laws, rules) as a code; classify. We need to take the varying rules and regulations of the different health agencies and codify them into a national health code.

Question 675

coercion

Answer 675

N. /威逼，强迫/use of force to get someone to obey. The inquisitors used both physical and psychological coercion to force Joan of Arc to deny that her visions were sent by God. coerce,V.

Question 676

cogent

Answer 676

ADJ. /有说服力的/convincing. It was inevitable that David chose to go to Harvard: he had several cogent reasons for doing so, including a full-tuition scholarship. Katya argued her case with such cogency that the jury had to decide in favor of her client.

Question 677

cogitate

Answer 677

V. /考虑/think over. Cogitate on this problem; the solution will come.

Question 678

cognate

Answer 678

ADJ. /同源的/related linguistically: allied by blood: similar or akin in nature. The English word "mother" is cognate to the Latin word "mater," whose influence is visible in the words "maternal" and "maternity." also N.

Question 679

cognitive

Answer 679

ADJ. /认知的/having to do with knowing or perceiving; related to the mental processes. Though Jack was emotionally immature, his cognitive development was admirable; he was very advanced intellectually.

Question 680

cognizance

Answer 680

N. /认知/knowledge. During the election campaign, the two candidates were kept in full cognizance of the international situation.

Question 681

cohere

Answer 681

V. /粘住的/stick together. Solids have a greater tendency to cohere than liquids.

Question 682

cohesion

Answer 682

N. /内聚力；黏度/tendency to keep together. A firm believer in the maxim "Divide and conquer," the evil emperor, by means of lies and trickery, sought to disrupt the cohesion of the federation of free nations.

Question 683

coiffure

Answer 683

N. /发型/hairstyle. You can make a statement with your choice of coiffure: in the sixties many AfricanAmericans affirmed their racial heritage by wearing their hair in Afros.

Question 684

coin

Answer 684

V. /铸币；发明；杜撰/make coins; invent or fabricate. Mints coin good money; counterfeiters coin fakes. Slanderers coin nasty rumors; writers coin words. A neologism is an expression that's been newly-coined.

Question 685

coincidence

Answer 685

N. /巧合/two or more things occurring at the same time by chance. Was it just a coincidence that John and she had chanced to meet at the market for three days running, or was he deliberately trying to seek her out? coincidental,ADJ.

Question 686

colander

Answer 686

N. /过滤器/utensil with perforated bottom used for straining. Before serving the spaghetti, place it in a colander to drain it.

Question 687

collaborate

Answer 687

V. /协作，合作/work together. Two writers collaborated in preparing this book.

Question 688

collage

Answer 688

N. /拼贴画/work of art put together from fragments. Scraps of cloth, paper doilies, and old photographs all went into her collage.

Question 689

collate

Answer 689

V. /校对，整理/examine in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order. They collated the newly found manuscripts to deter¬mine their age.

Question 690

collateral

Answer 690

N. /抵押品/security given for loan. The sum you wish to borrow is so large that it must be secured by collateral.

Question 691

colloquial

Answer 691

ADJ. /口语的/pertaining to conversational or common speech. Some of the new, less formal reading passages on SAT I have a colloquial tone that is intended to make them more appealing to students.

Question 692

collusion

Answer 692

N. /勾结/Conspiring in a fraudulent scheme. The swindlers were found guilty of collusion.

Question 693

colossal

Answer 693

ADJ. /巨大/huge. Radio City Music Hall has a colossal stage.

Question 694

comatose

Answer 694

ADJ. /昏迷；熟睡/a coma; extremely sleepy. The long¬winded orator soon had his audience in a comatose state.

Question 695

*combustible

Answer 695

ADJ. /易燃的/easily burned. After the recent outbreak of fires in private homes, the fire commissioner ordered that all combustible materials be kept in safe containers, also N.

Question 696

comely

Answer 696

ADJ. /清秀，美丽，漂亮；有吸引力的/attractive; agreeable. I would rather have a poor and comely wife than a rich and homely one.

Question 697

comeuppance

Answer 697

N. /报应/rebuke; deserts. After his earlier rude¬ness, we were delighted to see him get his comeuppance.

Question 698

commandeer

Answer 698

V. /征用，招募/to draft for military purposes; to take for public use. The policeman commandeered the first car that approached and ordered the driver to go to the nearest hospital.

Question 699

commemorate

Answer 699

V. /纪念/honor the memory of. The statue of the Minute Man commemorates the valiant soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Question 700

commensurate

Answer 700

ADJ. /相当的，相称的/equal in extent. Your reward will be commensurate with your effort.

Question 701

commiserate

Answer 701

V. /怜悯，同情/feel or express pity or sympathy for. Her friends commiserated with the widow.

Question 702

commodious

Answer 702

ADJ. /宽敞，舒适/spacious and comfortable. After sleep¬ing in small roadside cabins, they found their hotel suite commodious.

Question 703

communal

Answer 703

ADJ. /公共的/held in common; of a group of people. When they were divorced, they had trouble dividing their communal property.

Question 704

compact

Answer 704

N. /合约，合同/agreement; contract. The signers of the Mayflower Compact were establishing a form of government.

Question 705

compact

Answer 705

ADJ. /紧密的，结实的/tightly packed; firm; brief. His short, com¬pact body was better suited to wrestling than to basketball.

Question 706

comparable

Answer 706

ADJ. /相似的/similar. People whose jobs are compara¬ble in difficulty should receive comparable pay.

Question 707

compatible

Answer 707

ADJ. /和谐的/harmonious; in harmony with. They were compatible neighbors, never quarreling over unimportant matters. compatibility, N.

Question 708

compelling

Answer 708

ADJ. /强制的/overpowering; irresistible in effect. The prosecutor presented a well-reasoned case, but the defense attorney's compelling arguments for leniency won over the jury.

Question 709

compensatory

Answer 709

ADJ. /补偿/making up for; repaying. Can a com¬pensatory education program make up for the inadequate schooling he received in earlier years?

Question 710

compile

Answer 710

V. /聚集，积累，汇集/assemble; gather; accumulate. We planned to compile a list of the words most frequently used on SAT I examinations.

Question 711

complacency

Answer 711

N. /自满；装模作样/self-satisfaction; smugness. Full of com¬placency about his latest victories, he looked smugly at the row of trophies on his mantelpiece. complacent,ADJ.

Question 712

complaisant

Answer 712

ADJ. /彬彬有礼；殷勤/trying to please; obliging. The courtier obeyed the king's orders in a complaisant manner.

Question 713

complement

Answer 713

V. /补足；完善/complete; consummate; make perfect. The waiter recommended a glass of port to complement the cheese. also N.

Question 714

*complementary

Answer 714

ADJ. /补足的，完善的/serving to complete something. John and Lisa's skills are complementary. he's good at following a daily routine, while she's great at improvising and han¬dling emergencies. Together they make a great team.

Question 715

compliance

Answer 715

N. /顺从/readiness to yield; conformity in fulfilling requirements. Bullheaded Bill was not noted for easy com¬pliance with the demands of others. As an architect, how¬ever, Bill recognized that his design for the new school had to be in compliance with the local building code.

Question 716

compliant

Answer 716

ADJ. /顺从/yielding. Because Joel usually gave in and went along with whatever his friends desired, his mother worried that he might be too compliant.

Question 717

complicity

Answer 717

N. /共犯，共同/participation; involvement. You cannot keep your complicity in this affair secret very long; you would be wise to admit your involvement immediately.

Question 718

component

Answer 718

N. /成分/element; ingredient. I wish all the compo¬nents of my stereo system were working at the same time.

Question 719

composure

Answer 719

N. /镇定，沉着/mental calmness. Even the latest work crisis failed to shake her composure.

Question 720

compound

Answer 720

V. /混合；组合；增加/combine; constitute; pay interest; increase. The makers of the popular cold remedy compounded a nasal decongestant with an antihistamine. also N.

Question 721

comprehensive

Answer 721

ADJ. /全面的/thorough; inclusive. This book pro¬vides a comprehensive review of verbal and math skills for the SAT.

Question 722

compress

Answer 722

V. /压缩/close; squeeze; contract. She compressed the package under her arm.

Question 723

comprise

Answer 723

V. /包括/include; consist of. If the District of Columbia were to be granted statehood, the United States of America would comprise fifty-one states, not just fifty.

Question 724

compromise

Answer 724

V. /危害；妥协/adjust or settle by making mutual conces¬sions; endanger the interests or reputation of. Sometimes the presence of a neutral third party can help adversaries compromise their differences. Unfortunately, you're not neu-tral; therefore, your presence here compromises our chances of reaching an agreement. also N.

Question 725

compunction

Answer 725

N. /后悔/remorse. The judge was especially severe in his sentencing because he felt that the criminal had shown no compunction for his heinous crime.

Question 726

compute

Answer 726

V. /计算/reckon; calculate. He failed to compute the interest, so his bank balance was not accurate. computa¬tion, N.

Question 727

concave

Answer 727

ADJ. /空的/hollow. The back-packers found partial shel¬ter from the storm by huddling against the concave wall of the cliff.

Question 728

concede

Answer 728

V. /勉强，让步，屈从/admit; yield. Despite all the evidence Monica had assembled, Mark refused to concede that she was right.

Question 729

conceit

Answer 729

N. /自负，自大；离奇古怪的想法/vanity or self-love; whimsical idea; extravagant metaphor. Although Jack was smug and puffed up with conceit, he was an entertaining companion, always expressing himself in amusing conceits and witty turns of phrase.

Question 730

concentric

Answer 730

ADJ. /同心/having a common center. The target was made of concentric circles.

Question 731

conception

Answer 731

N. /开始，构思/beginning; forming of an idea. At the first conception of the work, he was consulted. conceive,V.

Question 732

concerted

Answer 732

ADJ. /协调的/mutually agreed on; done together. All the Girl Scouts made a concerted effort to raise funds for their annual outing. When the movie star appeared, his fans let out a concerted sigh.

Question 733

concession

Answer 733

N. /让步/an act of yielding. Before they could reach an agreement, both sides had to make certain concessions.

Question 734

conciliatory

Answer 734

ADJ. /抚慰，调和/reconciling; soothing. She was still angry despite his conciliatory words. conciliate,V.

Question 735

concise

Answer 735

ADJ. /简练/brief and compact. When you define a new word, be concise: the shorter the definition, the easier it is to remember.

Question 736

conclusive

Answer 736

ADJ . /决定性的，确实的/decisive; ending all debate. When the stolen books turned up in John's locker, we finally had conclusive evidence of the identity of the mysterious thief.

Question 737

concoct

Answer 737

V. /调制/ prepare by combining; make up in concert. How did the inventive chef ever concoct such a strange dish? concoction, N.

Question 738

concomitant

Answer 738

N. /伴随物/ that which accompanies. Culture is not always a concomitant of wealth. also ADJ.

Question 739

concord

Answer 739

N. /和谐/ harmony; agreement between people or things . Watching Tweedledum and Tweedledee battle, Alice wondered at their lack of concord.

Question 740

concur

Answer 740

V. /同意/ agree. Did you concur with the decision of the court or did you find it unfair?

Question 741

concurrent

Answer 741

ADJ. /同时发生的/ happening at the same time. In America, the colonists were resisting the demands of the mother country; at the concurrent moment in France, the middle class was sowing the seeds of rebellion.

Question 742

condemn

Answer 742

V. /谴责；判刑/ censure; sentence; force or limit to a particular state. In My Cousin Vinnie, Vinnie's fiancée condemned Vinnie for mishandling his cousin Tony's defense. If Vinnie didn't do a better job defending Tony, the judge would condemn Tony to death, and Vinnie would be condemned to cleaning toilets for a living.

Question 743

condense

Answer 743

V. /浓缩，精简/ make more compact or dense; shorten or abridge; reduce into a denser fo rm. If you squeeze a slice of Wonder Bread, taking out the extra air, you can condense it into a pellet the size of a sugar cube. If you cut out the unnecessary words from your essay, you can condense it to a paragraph. As the bathroom cooled down, the steam from the shower condensed into droplets of water.

Question 744

condescend

Answer 744

V. /谦逊，屈尊/ act conscious of descending to a lower level; patronize. Though Jill had been a star softball player in college, when she played a pickup game at the park she never condescended to her less experienced teammates. condescension, N.

Question 745

condiments

Answer 745

N. /调味品/ seasonings; spices. The chef seasoned the dish with so much garlic that we could hardly taste the other condiments.

Question 746

condole

Answer 746

V. /慰问/ express sympathetic sorrow. His friends gathered to condole with him over his loss. condolence, N.

Question 747

condone

Answer 747

V. /宽恕，容忍/ overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse. Unlike Widow Douglass, who condoned Huck's minor offenses, Miss Watson did nothing but scold.

Question 748

conducive

Answer 748

ADJ. /有益的，有助的/ contributive; tending to. Rest and proper diet are conducive to good health.

Question 749

conduit

Answer 749

N. /沟渠/ aqueduct; passageway for fluids. Water was brought to the army in the desert by an improvised conduit from the adjoining mountain.

Question 750

confidant

Answer 750

N. /知己/ trusted friend. He had no confidants with whom he could discuss his problems at home.

Question 751

confine

Answer 751

V. /禁闭，限制/ shut in; restrict. The terrorists had. confined their prisoner in a small room. However, they had not chained him to the wall or done anything else to confine his movements further. confinement, N.

Question 752

confirm

Answer 752

V. /证实，加强/ corroborate; verify; support. I have several witnesses who will confirm my account of what happened.

Question 753

confiscate

Answer 753

V. /没收，征用/ seize; commandeer. The army confiscated all available supplies of uranium.

Question 754

conflagration

Answer 754

N. /大火/ great fire. In the conflagration that followed the 1906 earthquake, much of San Francisco was destroyed.

Question 755

confluence

Answer 755

N. /汇合，交汇处/ flowing together; crowd. They built the city at the confluence of two rivers.

Question 756

conformity

Answer 756

N. /一致/ harmony; agreement. In conformity with our rules and regulations, I am calling a meeting of our organization.

Question 757

confound

Answer 757

V. /使困惑，使混淆/ confuse; puzzle. No mystery could confound Sherlock Holmes for long.

Question 758

confrontation

Answer 758

N. /面对；对质，对抗/ act of facing someone or something; encounter, often hostile. Morris hoped to avoid any ,confrontations with his ex-wife , but he kept on running into her at the health club. How would you like to confront someone who can bench press 200 pounds? confront, V., confrontational, ADJ.

Question 759

congeal

Answer 759

V. /冻结/ freeze; coagulate. His blood congealed in his veins as he saw the dread monster rush toward him.

Question 760

congenial

Answer 760

ADJ. /相宜的，何意的/ pleasant; friendly. My father loved to go out for a meal with congenial companions.

Question 761

congenital

Answer 761

ADJ. /天生的/ existing at birth. Were you born stupid, or did you just turn out this way? In other words, is your idiocy acquired or congenital? Doctors are able to cure some congenital deformities such as cleft palates by performing operations on infants.