Barron 3500 SAT List 2

Question 0

adulterate

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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 1

adulation

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

Question 2

advent

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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 3

adventitious

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

Question 4

adversary

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

Question 5

adverse

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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 6

adversity

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

Question 7

advocacy

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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 8

advocate

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

Question 9

aerie

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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 10

aesthetic

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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 11

affable

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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 12

affected

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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 13

affidavit

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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 14

affiliation

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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 15

affinity

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

Question 16

affirmation

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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 17

affix

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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 18

affliction

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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 19

affluence

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

Question 20

affront

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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 21

aftermath

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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 22

agenda

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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 23

agent

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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 24

agglomeration

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

Question 25

aggrandize

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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 26

aggregate

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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 27

aggressor

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

Question 28

aghast

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

Question 29

agility

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

Question 30

agitate

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

Question 31

agnostic

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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 32

agrarian

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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 33

alacrity

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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 34

alchemy

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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 35

alcove

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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 36

alias

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

Question 37

alienate

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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 38

alimentary

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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 39

alimony

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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 40

allay

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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 41

allege

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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 42

allegiance

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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 43

allegory

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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 44

alleviate

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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 45

alliteration

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

Question 46

allocate

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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 47

alloy

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

Question 48

alloy

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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 49

allude

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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 50

allure

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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 51

allusion

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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 52

aloft

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

Question 53

aloof

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

Question 54

altercation

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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 55

altruistic

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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 56

amalgamate

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

Question 57

amass

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

Question 58

ambidextrous

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

Question 59

ambience

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

Question 60

ambiguous

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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 61

ambivalence

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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 62

amble

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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 63

ambulatory

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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 64

ameliorate

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

Question 65

amenable

Answer 65

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 66

amend

Answer 66

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.