Barron 3500 SAT List 13

Question 0

decimate

Answer 0

V. /残杀（十个里面杀一个）/kill, usually one out of ten. We do more to decimate our population in automobile accidents than we do in war.

Question 1

deciduous

Answer 1

ADJ. /落叶的/falling off as of leaves. The oak is a decid¬uous tree; in winter it looks quite bare.

Question 2

decipher

Answer 2

V. /破译，解密/interpret secret code. Lacking his code book, the spy was unable to decipher the scrambled message sent to him from the KGB.

Question 3

declivity

Answer 3

N. /下坡/downward slope. The children loved to ski down the declivity.

Question 4

decollete

Answer 4

ADJ. /低肩露颈的服装/having a low-necked dress. Current fashion decrees that evening gowns be decollete this season; bare shoulders are again the vogue.

Question 5

decomposition

Answer 5

N. /瓦解；腐烂/decay. Despite the body’s advanced state of decomposition, the police were able to identify the murdered man.

Question 6

decorum

Answer 6

N. /礼貌；温文尔雅/propriety; orderliness and good taste in man¬ners. Even the best-mannered students have trouble behav¬ing with decorum on the last day of school. decorous,ADJ.

Question 7

decoy

Answer 7

N. /引诱/lure or bait. The wild ducks were not fooled by the decoy. alsoV.

Question 8

decrepit

Answer 8

ADJ. /老化，磨损/worn out by age. The decrepit car blocked traffic on the highway.

Question 9

decrepitude

Answer 9

N. /衰老；老耄/state of collapse caused by illness or old age. I was unprepared for the state of decrepitude in which I had found my old friend; he seemed to have aged twenty years in six months.

Question 10

decry

Answer 10

V. /强烈反对/express strong disapproval of; disparage. The founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, strongly decries the lack of financial and moral support for children in America today.

Question 11

deducible

Answer 11

ADJ. /可推导的，可推论的/derived by reasoning. If we accept your premise, your conclusions are easily deducible.

Question 12

deface

Answer 12

V. /丑化/mar; disfigure. If you deface a library book, you will have to pay a hefty fine.

Question 13

defame

Answer 13

V. /丑化；诽谤/harm someone’s reputation; malign; slander. If you try to defame my good name, my lawyers will see you in court. If rival candidates persist in defaming one another, the voters may conclude that all politicians are crooks. defamation, N.

Question 14

default

Answer 14

N. /不作为，无动于衷/failure to act. When the visiting team failed to show up for the big game, they lost the game by default. When Jack failed to make the payments on his Jaguar, the dealership took back the car because he had defaulted on his debt.

Question 15

defeatist

Answer 15

ADJ. /失败主义者/attitude of one who is ready to accept defeat as a natural outcome. If you maintain your defeatist attitude, you will never succeed. also N.

Question 16

defection

Answer 16

N. /缺点；逃跑，叛逃/desertion. The children, who had made him an idol, were hurt most by his defection from our cause.

Question 17

defer

Answer 17

V. /推迟，延期/delay till later; exempt temporarily. In wartime, some young men immediately volunteer to serve; others

Question 18

defer

Answer 18

/缓招/making plans until they hear from their draft boards. During the Vietnam War, many young men, hoping to be deferred, requested student deferments.

Question 19

defer

Answer 19

V. /听从/give in respectfully; submit. When it comes to making decisions about purchasing software, we must defer to Michael, our computer guru; he gets the final word. Michael, however, can defer these questions to no one; only he can decide.

Question 20

deference

Answer 20

N. /尊重的，尊重他人的/courteous regard for another’s wish. In defer¬ence to the minister’s request, please do not take pho¬tographs during the wedding service.

Question 21

defiance

Answer 21

N. /抵抗；不屈服/refusal to yield; resistance. When John reached the “terrible two’s,” he responded to every parental request with howls of defiance. defy,V.

Question 22

defile

Answer 22

V. /污染；亵渎/pollute; profane. The hoodlums defiled the church with their scurrilous writing.

Question 23

definitive

Answer 23

ADJ. /完全的；最终的/final; complete. Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln may be regarded as the definitive work on the life of the Great Emancipator.

Question 24

deflect

Answer 24

V. /反射，偏转/turn aside. His life was saved when his cigarette case deflected the bullet.

Question 25

defoliate

Answer 25

V. /落叶/destroy leaves. In Vietnam the army made extensive use of chemical agents to defoliate the woodlands.

Question 26

defray

Answer 26

V. /偿付/pay the costs of. Her employer offered to defray the costs of her postgraduate education.

Question 27

deft

Answer 27

ADJ. /灵巧的，敏锐地/neat; skillful. The deft waiter uncorked the cham¬pagne without spilling a drop.

Question 28

defunct

Answer 28

ADJ. /死的；不存在的，报废的/dead; no longer in use or existence. The lawyers sought to examine the books of the defunct corpo¬ration.

Question 29

defuse

Answer 29

V. /拆弹；化解（危机）/remove the fuse of a bomb; reduce or eliminate a threat. Police negotiators are trained to defuse danger¬ous situations by avoiding confrontational language and behavior.

Question 30

degenerate

Answer 30

V. /恶化/become worse; deteriorate. As the fight dragged on, the champion's style degenerated until he could barely keep on his feet.

Question 31

degradation

Answer 31

N. /降级；降格；退化/humiliation; debasement; degeneration. Some secretaries object to fetching the boss a cup of cof¬fee because they resent the degradation of being made to do such lowly tasks. degrade,V.

Question 32

dehydrate

Answer 32

V. /脱水/remove water from; dry out. Running under a hot sun quickly dehydrates the body; joggers soon learn to carry water bottles and to drink from them frequently.

Question 33

deify

Answer 33

V. /神化/ turn into a god; idolize. Admire Elvis Presley all you want; just don't deify him.

Question 34

deign

Answer 34

V. /屈服，屈尊/condescend; stoop. The celebrated fashion designer would not deign to speak to a mere seamstress; his overburdened assistant had to convey the master's wishes to the lowly workers assembling his great designs.

Question 35

delectable

Answer 35

ADJ. /使人愉快的/delightful; delicious. We thanked our host for a most delectable meal.

Question 36

delete

Answer 36

V. /删除/erase; strike out. Less is more: if you delete this paragraph, your whole essay will have greater appeal.

Question 37

deleterious

Answer 37

ADJ. /有害的/harmful. If you believe that smoking is deleterious to your health (and the Surgeon General cer¬tainly does), then quit!

Question 38

deliberate

Answer 38

V. /深思熟虑的；商讨/consider; ponder. Offered the new job, she asked for time to deliberate before she told them her decision,

Question 39

delineate

Answer 39

V. /描绘；描述/portray; depict; sketch. Using only a few descriptive phrases, Austen delineates the character of Mr. Collins so well that we can predict his every move. delin¬eation, N.

Question 40

delirium

Answer 40

N. /精神错乱/mental disorder marked by confusion. In his delirium, the drunkard saw pink panthers and talking pigs. Perhaps he wasn't delirious: he might just have wandered into a movie.

Question 41

delude

Answer 41

V. /盅惑/deceive. His mistress may have deluded herself into believing that he would leave his wife and marry her.

Question 42

deluge

Answer 42

N. /冲（水）（刺）/flood; rush. When we advertised the position, we received a deluge of applications.

Question 43

delusion

Answer 43

N. /错觉/false belief; hallucination. Don suffers from delusions of grandeur: he thinks he's a world-famous author when he's published just one paperback book.

Question 44

delve

Answer 44

V. /挖掘；调查/dig; investigate. Delving into old books and man¬uscripts is part of a researcher's job.

Question 45

demagogue

Answer 45

N. /煽动政治家/person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people. He was accused of being a dema¬gogue because he made promises that aroused futile hopes in his listeners.

Question 46

demean

Answer 46

V. /降级；贬低/degrade; humiliate. Standing on his dignity, he refused to demean himself by replying to the offensive letter. If you truly believed in the dignity of labor, you would not think it would demean you to work as a janitor.

Question 47

demeanor

Answer 47

N. /风度；行为/behavior; bearing. His sober demeanor qui¬eted the noisy revelers.

Question 48

demented

Answer 48

ADJ. /疯狂的/insane. Doctor Demento was a lunatic radio personality who liked to act as if he were truly demented. If you're demented, your mental state is out of whack; in other words, you're wacky.

Question 49

demise

Answer 49

N. /死/death. Upon the demise of the dictator, a bitter dispute about succession to power developed.

Question 50

demolition

Answer 50

N. /拆除/destruction. One of the major aims of the air force was the complete demolition of all means of trans¬portation by bombing of rail lines and terminals. demolish,V.

Question 51

demoniac

Answer 51

ADJ. /魔鬼的/fiendish. The Spanish Inquisition devised many demoniac means of torture. demon, N.

Question 52

demur

Answer 52

V. /反对；犹豫/object (because of doubts, scruples); hesitate. When offered a post on the board of directors, David demurred: he had scruples about taking on the job because he was unsure he could handle it in addition to his other responsibilities.

Question 53

demure

Answer 53

ADJ. /端庄的；认真的；腼腆的/grave; serious; coy. She was demure and reserved, a nice modest girl whom any young man would be proud to take home to his mother.

Question 54

demystify

Answer 54

V. /澄清；揭秘/clarify; free from mystery or obscurity. Help¬ful doctors demystify medical procedures by describing them in everyday language, explaining that a myringotomy, for example, is an operation involving making a small hole in one's eardrum.

Question 55

denigrate

Answer 55

V. /抹黑/blacken. All attempts to denigrate the charac¬ter of our late president have failed; the people still love him and cherish his memory.

Question 56

denizen

Answer 56

N. /居民；常客/inhabitant or resident; regular visitor. In The Untouchables, Eliot Ness fights AI Capone and the other denizens of Chicago's underworld. Ness's fight against cor¬ruption was the talk of all the denizens of the local bars.

Question 57

denotation

Answer 57

N. /指示；根据名字区别/meaning; distinguishing by name. A dictio¬nary will always give us the denotation of a word; fre¬quently, it will also give us the connotations. denote,V.

Question 58

denouement

Answer 58

N. /结局；结果/outcome; final development of the plot of a play. The play was childishly written; the denouement was obvious to sophisticated theatergoers as early as the mid¬dle of the first act.

Question 59

denounce

Answer 59

V. /咒骂；批评/condemn; criticize. The reform candidate denounced the corrupt city officers for having betrayed the public's trust. denunciation, N.

Question 60

depict

Answer 60

V. /描述/portray. In this sensational exposé, the author depicts Beatle John Lennon as a drug-crazed neurotic. Do you question the accuracy of this depiction of Lennon?

Question 61

deplete

Answer 61

V. /耗尽；减少/reduce; exhaust. We must wait until we deplete our present inventory before we order replacements.

Question 62

deplore

Answer 62

V. /悔恨/regret; disapprove of. Although I deplore the vulgarity of your language, I defend your right to express yourself freely.

Question 63

deploy

Answer 63

V. /散开；部署/spread out [troops] in an extended though shal¬low battle line. The general ordered the battalion to deploy in order to meet the enemy offensive.

Question 64

depose

Answer 64

V. /革职/dethrone; remove from office. The army attempted to depose the king and set up a military govern¬ment.

Question 65

deposition

Answer 65

N. /宣言，誓言/testimony under oath. He made his deposi¬tion in the judge's chamber.

Question 66

depravity

Answer 66

N. /堕落，腐坏/extreme corruption; wickedness. The deprav¬ity of Caligula's behavior came to sicken even those who had willingly participated in his earlier, comparatively inno¬cent orgies.

Question 67

deprecate

Answer 67

V. /抗议；蔑视/express disapproval of; protest against; belit¬tle. A firm believer in old-fashioned courtesy, Miss Post deprecated the modern tendency to address new acquain¬tances by their first names. deprecatory,ADJ.

Question 68

depreciate

Answer 68

V. /折旧/lessen in value. If you neglect this property, it will depreciate.

Question 69

depredation

Answer 69

N. /掠夺/plundering. After the depredations of the invaders, the people were penniless.

Question 70

deranged

Answer 70

ADJ. /不理智/insane. He had to be institutionalized because he was mentally deranged.

Question 71

derelict

Answer 71

ADJ. /遗弃的；废弃的/abandoned; negligent. The derelict craft was a menace to navigation. Whoever abandoned it in the mid¬dle of the harbor was derelict in living up to his responsibili¬ties as a boat owner. also N.

Question 72

deride

Answer 72

V. /打趣；取消/ridicule; make fun of. The critics derided his pre¬tentious dialogue and refused to consider his play seri¬ously. derision, N.

Question 73

derivative

Answer 73

ADJ. /派生的/unoriginal; derived from another source. Although her early poetry was clearly derivative in nature,the critics thought she had promise and eventually would find her own voice.

Question 74

dermatologist

Answer 74

N. /皮肤病专家/one who studies the skin and its diseases. I advise you to consult a dermatologist about your acne.