Barron 3500 SAT List 23

Question 0

hibernate

Answer 0

V. /冬眠/sleep throughout the winter. Bears are one of the many species of animals that hibernate. hibernation, N.

Question 1

hibernal

Answer 1

ADJ. /冬天的/wintry. Bears prepare for their long hibernal sleep by overeating.

Question 2

hierarchy

Answer 2

N. /分级，排序了的/arrangement by rank or standing; authoritar¬ian body divided into ranks. To be low man on the totem pole is to have an inferior place in the hierarchy.

Question 3

hilarity

Answer 3

N. /狂欢，欢闹/boisterous mirth. This hilarity is improper on this solemn day of mourning.

Question 4

hindrance

Answer 4

N. /障碍物/block; obstacle. Stalled cars along the high¬way are a hindrance to traffic that tow trucks should remove without delay. hinder,V.

Question 5

histrionic

Answer 5

ADJ. /戏剧性的/theatrical. He was proud of his histrionic ability and wanted to play the role of Hamlet, histrionics, N.

Question 6

hoard

Answer 6

V. /储藏/stockpile; accumulate for future use. Whenever there are rumors of a food shortage, many people are tempted to hoard food. also N.

Question 7

hoary

Answer 7

ADJ. /灰白的/white with age. The man was hoary and wrin¬kled when he was 70.

Question 8

hoax

Answer 8

N. /伎俩；小聪明/trick; practical joke. Embarrassed by the hoax, he reddened and left the room. alsoV.

Question 9

hodgepodge

Answer 9

N. /大杂烩/jumble; mixture of ill-suited elements. The reviewer roundly condemned the play as a hodgepodge of random and purposeless encounters carried out by a cast lacking any uniformity of accent or style.

Question 10

holster

Answer 10

N. /手枪套/pistol case. Even when he was not in uniform, he carried a holster and pistol under his arm.

Question 11

homage

Answer 11

N. /敬意/honor; tribute. In her speech she tried to pay homage to a great man.

Question 12

homogeneous

Answer 12

ADJ. /同类的/of the same kind. Because the student body at Elite Prep was so homogeneous, Sara and James decided to send their daughter to a school that offered greater cultural diversity. homogenize,V.

Question 13

hone

Answer 13

V. /磨尖/sharpen. To make shaving easier, he honed his razor with great care.

Question 14

hoodwink

Answer 14

V. /欺骗，迷惑，蛊惑/deceive; delude. Having been hoodwinked once by the fast-talking salesman, he was extremely cau¬tious when he went to purchase a used car.

Question 15

horde

Answer 15

N. /拥挤/crowd. Just before Christmas the stores are filled with hordes of shoppers.

Question 16

horticultural

Answer 16

ADJ. /园艺的/pertaining to cultivation of gardens. When he bought his house, he began to look for flowers and decorative shrubs, and began to read books dealing with horticultural matters.

Question 17

host

Answer 17

N. /很多；主人；宿主/great number; person entertaining guests; animal or plant from which a parasite gets its nourishment. You must attend to a host of details if you wish to succeed as host of a formal dinner party. Leeches are parasites that cling to their hosts and drink their hosts’ blood.

Question 18

hostility

Answer 18

N. /不友好，敌意/unfriendliness; hatred. A child who has been the sole object of his parents’ affection often feels hostility toward a new baby in the family, resenting the newcomer who has taken his place.

Question 19

hovel

Answer 19

N. /小屋/shack; small, wretched house. He wondered how poor people could stand living in such a hovel.

Question 20

hover

Answer 20

V. /逗留；盘旋；等待/hang about; wait nearby. The police helicopter hovered above the accident.

Question 21

hue

Answer 21

N. /色调/color; aspect. The aviary contained birds of every possible hue.

Question 22

hulking

Answer 22

ADJ. /大量的，巨大的/massive; bulky; great in size. Despite his hulking build, the heavyweight boxing champion was sur¬prisingly light on his feet. hulk, N.

Question 23

humane

Answer 23

ADJ. /仁慈/marked by kindness or consideration. It is ironic that the Humane Society sometimes must show its compassion toward mistreated animals by killing them to put them out of their misery.

Question 24

humdrum

Answer 24

ADJ. /单调的/dull; monotonous. After his years of adven¬ture, he could not settle down to a humdrum existence.

Question 25

humid

Answer 25

ADJ. /潮湿的/damp. She could not stand the humid climate and moved to a drier area.

Question 26

humility

Answer 26

N. /谦逊/humbleness of spirit. He spoke with a humility and lack of pride that impressed his listeners.

Question 27

hurtle

Answer 27

V. /冲击；碰撞；急冲/crash; rush. The runaway train hurtled toward dis¬aster.

Question 28

husband

Answer 28

V. /节约/use sparingly; conserve; save. Marathon run¬ners must husband their energy so that they can keep going for the entire distance.

Question 29

hybrid

Answer 29

N. /混合的，混血的/mongrel; mixed breed. Mendel's formula explains the appearance of hybrids and pure species in breeding. alsoADJ.

Question 30

hydrophobia

Answer 30

N. /恐水症；狂犬病/rabies; fear of water. A dog that bites a human being must be observed for symptoms of hydropho¬bia.

Question 31

hyperbole

Answer 31

N. /夸张/exaggeration; overstatement. As far as I'm concerned, Apple's claims about the new computer are pure hyperbole: no machine is that good!

Question 32

hypercritical

Answer 32

ADJ. /及其夸张/excessively exacting. You are hypercriti¬cal in your demands for perfection; we all make mistakes.

Question 33

hypochondriac

Answer 33

N. /无病呻吟；忧郁症/person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness. The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a hypochondriac.

Question 34

hypocritical

Answer 34

ADJ. /伪善；欺骗/pretending to be virtuous; deceiving. Believing Eddie to be interested only in his own advance¬ment, Greg resented his hypocritical posing as a friend. hypocrisy, N.

Question 35

hypothetical

Answer 35

ADJ. /基于假设的，设想的，假想的/based on assumptions or hypotheses; supposed. Suppose you are accepted by Harvard, Stan¬ford, and Brown. Which one would you choose to attend? Remember, this is only a hypothetical situation. hypothe¬SiS, N.

Question 36

ichthyology

Answer 36

N. /鱼类学/study of fish. Jacques Cousteau's pro¬grams about sea life have advanced the cause of ichthyol¬ogy

Question 37

icon

Answer 37

N. /偶像，象征；图标/religious image; idol. The icons on the walls of the church were painted in the 13th century.

Question 38

iconoclastic

Answer 38

ADJ. /打破旧习/attacking cherished traditions. Deeply iconoclastic, Jean Genet deliberately set out to shock con¬ventional theatergoers with his radical plays.

Question 39

ideology

Answer 39

N. /意识形态/system of ideas of a group. For people who had grown up believing in the communist ideology, it was hard to adjust to capitalism.

Question 40

idiom

Answer 40

N. /习语；成语/expression whose meaning as a whole differs from the meanings of its individual words; distinctive style. The phrase "to lose one's marbles" is an idiom: if I say that Joe's lost his marbles, I'm not asking you to find some for him. I'm telling you idiomatically that he's crazy.

Question 41

idiosyncrasy

Answer 41

N. /特性，特质；古怪的，离心的/individual trait, usually odd in nature; eccentricity. One of Richard Nixon's little idiosyncrasies was his liking for ketchup on cottage cheese. One of Hannibal Lecter's little idiosyncrasies was his liking for human flesh. idiosyncratic,ADJ.

Question 42

idolatry

Answer 42

N. /过度崇拜/worship of idols; excessive admiration. Such idolatry of singers of country music is typical of the exces¬sive enthusiasm of youth.

Question 43

ignite

Answer 43

V. /点燃/kindle; light. When Desi crooned, "Baby, light my fire," literal-minded Lucy looked around for some paper to ignite.

Question 44

ignoble

Answer 44

ADJ. /不高贵的；不光彩的/of lowly origin; unworthy. This plan is inspired by ignoble motives and I must, therefore, oppose it.

Question 45

ignominy

Answer 45

N. /丢脸；抹黑；耻辱/deep disgrace; shame or dishonor. To lose the Ping-Pong match to a trained chimpanzee! How could Rollo stand the ignominy of his defeat? ignominious,ADJ.

Question 46

illicit

Answer 46

ADJ. /非法的/illegal. The defense attorney maintained that his client had never performed any illicit action.

Question 47

illimitable

Answer 47

ADJ. /无限/infinite. Man, having explored the far corners of the earth, is now reaching out into illimitable space.

Question 48

illuminate

Answer 48

V. /照亮；明朗；澄清/brighten; clear up or make understandable; enlighten. Just as a lamp can illuminate a dark room, a per¬ceptive comment can illuminate a knotty problem.

Question 49

illusion

Answer 49

N. /幻觉/misleading vision. It is easy to create an optical illusion in which lines of equal length appear different.

Question 50

illusory

Answer 50

ADJ. /虚幻的，不真实的/deceptive; not real. Unfortunately, the costs of running the lemonade stand were so high that Tom's profits proved illusory.

Question 51

imbalance

Answer 51

N. /不平衡，不成比例/lack of balance or symmetry; disproportion. To correct racial imbalance in the schools, school boards have bussed black children into white neighborhoods and white children into black ones.

Question 52

imbibe

Answer 52

V. /吸收/drink in. The dry soil imbibed the rain quickly.