Barron 3500 SAT List 32

Question 0

nautical

Answer 0

ADJ. /航海的/pertaining to ships or navigation. The Mar¬itime Museum contains many models of clipper ships, log¬books, anchors and many other items of a nautical nature.

Question 1

nauseate

Answer 1

V. /令人作呕的/cause to become sick; fill with disgust. The foul smells began to nauseate him.

Question 2

navigable

Answer 2

ADJ. /可以通航的/wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; able to be steered. So much sand had built up at the bottom of the canal that the waterway was barely navigable.

Question 3

nebulous

Answer 3

ADJ. /暧昧的，混浊不清的/vague; hazy; cloudy. After twenty years, she had only a nebulous memory of her grandmother’s face.

Question 4

necromancy

Answer 4

N. /巫术，妖术，招魂术/black magic; dealings with the dead. The evil sorceror performed feats of necromancy, calling on the spirits of the dead to tell the future.

Question 5

nefarious

Answer 5

ADJ. /十恶不赦的/very wicked. The villain’s crimes, though various, were one and all nefarious.

Question 6

negate

Answer 6

V. /拒绝，否定，取消/cancel out; nullify; deny. A sudden surge of adrenalin can negate the effects of fatigue: there’s nothing like a good shock to wake you up.

Question 7

negligence

Answer 7

N. /疏忽，没能尽力的/neglect; failure to take reasonable care. Tommy failed to put back the cover on the well after he fetched his pail of water; because of his negligence, Kitty fell in.

Question 8

negligible

Answer 8

ADJ. /可忽略不计的/so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded. Because the damage to his car had been negligible, Michael decided he wouldn’t bother to report the matter to his insurance company.

Question 9

nemesis

Answer 9

N. /复仇的人；寻衅者/someone seeking revenge. Abandoned at sea in a small boat, the vengeful Captain Bligh vowed to be the nemesis of Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers.

Question 10

neologism

Answer 10

N. /新生词/new or newly coined word or phrase. As we invent new techniques and professions, we must also Invent neologisms such as “microcomputer” and “astronaut” to describe them.

Question 11

neophyte

Answer 11

N. /新入教者；新信徒/recent convert; beginner. This mountain slope contains slides that will challenge experts as well as neophytes.

Question 12

nepotism

Answer 12

N. /偏袒的人（亲戚）/favoritism (to a relative). John left his position with the company because he felt that advancement was based on nepotism rather than ability.

Question 13

nettle

Answer 13

V. /烦恼；激怒；荨麻/annoy; vex. Do not let him nettle you with his sar¬castic remarks.

Question 14

neutral

Answer 14

ADJ. /中型的；自然的；中庸的，公允的/impartial; not supporting one side over another. Reluctant to get mixed up in someone else’s quar¬rel, Bobby tried to remain neutral, but eventually he had to take sides.

Question 15

nicety

Answer 15

N. /准确，精密/precision; minute distinction. I cannot distinguish between such niceties of reasoning.

Question 16

nihilist

Answer 16

N. /虚无主义者/one who believes traditional beliefs to be groundless and existence meaningless; absolute skeptic; revolutionary terrorist. In his final days, Hitler revealed him¬self a power-mad nihilist, ready to annihilate all of Western Europe, even to destroy Germany itself, in order that his will might prevail. The root of the word nihilist is nihil, Latin for nothing. nihilism, N.

Question 17

nip

Answer 17

V. /夹，捏；剪断；阻止/stop something’s growth or development; snip off; bite; make numb with cold. The twins were plotting mis¬chief, but Mother intervened and nipped that plan in the bud. The gardener nipped off a lovely rose and gave it to me. Last week a guard dog nipped the postman in the leg; this week the extreme chill nipped his fingers till he could barely hold the mail.

Question 18

nirvana

Answer 18

N. /涅磐/in Buddhist teachings, the ideal state in which the individual loses himself in the attainment of an imper¬sonal beatitude. Despite his desire to achieve nirvana, the young Buddhist found that even the buzzing of a fly could distract him from his meditation.

Question 19

nocturnal

Answer 19

ADJ. /夜的/done at night. Mr. Jones obtained a watch¬dog to prevent the nocturnal raids on his chicken coops.

Question 20

noisome

Answer 20

ADJ. /有害的，有毒的；恶臭的/foul-smelling; unwholesome. The noisome atmosphere downwind of the oil refinery not only stank, it damaged the lungs of everyone living in the area.

Question 21

nomadic

Answer 21

ADJ. /游牧的/wandering. Several nomadic tribes of Indi¬ans would hunt in this area each year.

Question 22

nomenclature

Answer 22

N. /命名法；术语学/terminology; system of names. Sharon found Latin word parts useful in translating medical nomen¬clature: when her son had to have a bilateral myringotomy, she figured out that he just needed a hole in each of his eardrums to end the earaches he had.

Question 23

nominal

Answer 23

ADJ. /有名无实的，名存实亡的；名义上的/in name only; trifling. He offered to drive her to the airport for only a nominal fee.

Question 24

nonchalance

Answer 24

N. /冷淡/indifference; lack of concern; composure. Cool, calm, and collected under fire, James Bond shows remarkable nonchalance in the face of danger.

Question 25

noncommittal

Answer 25

ADJ. /不明朗的，不表态的；中庸的，未决的/neutral; unpledged; undecided. We were annoyed by his noncommittal reply for we had been led to expect definite assurances of his approval.

Question 26

nondescript

Answer 26

ADJ. /普通的/undistinctive; ordinary. The private detec¬tive was a short, nondescript fellow with no outstanding fea¬tures, the sort of person one would never notice in a crowd.

Question 27

nonentity

Answer 27

N. /不存在/person of no importance; nonexistence. Because the two older princes dismissed their youngest brother as a nonentity, they did not realize that he was qui¬etly plotting to seize the throne.

Question 28

nonplus

Answer 28

V. /使迷惑；使为难；混淆/bring to halt by confusion; perplex. Jack's uncharacteristic rudeness nonplussed Jill, leaving her uncertain how to react.

Question 29

nostalgia

Answer 29

N. /想家；乡愁/homesickness; longing for the past. My grandfather seldom spoke of life in the old country; he had little patience with nostalgia. nostalgic,ADJ.

Question 30

notable

Answer 30

ADJ. /显著的；值得注意的/conspicuous; important; distinguished. Nor¬mally notable for his calm in the kitchen, today the head cook was shaking, for the notable chef Julia Child was com¬ing to dinner.

Question 31

notoriety

Answer 31

N. /臭名昭著的/disrepute; ill fame. To the starlet, any publicity was good publicity: if she couldn't have a good reputation, she'd settle for notoriety. notorious,ADJ.

Question 32

novelty

Answer 32

N. /新奇/something new; newness. The computer is no longer a novelty at work; every desk in our office has one. novel,ADJ.

Question 33

novice

Answer 33

N. /新手/beginner. Even a novice at working with comput¬ers can install Barron's Computer Study Program for the SAT by following the easy steps outlined in the user's manual.

Question 34

noxious

Answer 34

ADJ. /有害的/harmful. We must trace the source of these noxious gases before they asphyxiate us.

Question 35

nuance

Answer 35

N. /细微差别/shade of difference in meaning or color; subtle distinction. Jody gazed at the Monet landscape for an hour, appreciating every subtle nuance of color in the painting.

Question 36

nullify

Answer 36

V. /使无效/to make invalid. Once the contract was nullified, it no longer had any legal force.

Question 37

numismatist

Answer 37

N. /硬币收藏家/person who collects coins. The numisma¬tist had a splendid collection of antique coins.

Question 38

nuptial

Answer 38

ADJ. /婚姻的/related to marriage. Reluctant to be married in a traditional setting, they decided to hold their nuptial cere¬mony at the carousel in Golden Gate Park.

Question 39

nurture

Answer 39

V. /养育；教育/nourish; educate; foster. The Head Start pro¬gram attempts to nurture pre-kindergarten children so that they will do well when they enter public school. also N.

Question 40

nutrient

Answer 40

N. /营养品/nourishing substance. As a budding nutrition¬ist, Kim has learned to design diets that contain foods rich in important basic nutrients.

Question 41

oaf

Answer 41

N. /愚蠢的人/stupid, awkward person. "Watch what you're doing, you clumsy oaf!" Bill shouted at the waiter who had drenched him with iced coffee.

Question 42

obdurate

Answer 42

ADJ. /执拗的；顽固的/stubborn. He was obdurate in his refusal to listen to our complaints.

Question 43

obese

Answer 43

ADJ. /肥胖的/fat. It is advisable that obese people try to lose weight.

Question 44

obfuscate

Answer 44

V. /迷惑，困惑；增加不必要的复杂性/confuse; muddle; cause confusion; make needlessly complex. Was the president's spokesman trying to clarify the Whitewater mystery, or was he trying to obfus¬cate the issue so the voters would never figure out what went on?

Question 45

obituary

Answer 45

ADJ. /讣告/death notice. I first learned of her death when I read the obituary column in the newspaper. also N.

Question 46

objective

Answer 46

ADJ. /不为情所动的；公平的/not influenced by emotions; fair. Even though he was her son, she tried to be objective about his behavior.

Question 47

objective

Answer 47

N. /目标/goal; aim. A degree in medicine was her ulti¬mate objective.

Question 48

obligatory

Answer 48

ADJ. /必须的/binding; required. It is obligatory that books borrowed from the library be returned within two weeks.

Question 49

oblique

Answer 49

ADJ. /间接的；倾斜的；无诚意的/indirect; slanting (deviating from the perpen-dicular or from a straight line). Casting a quick, oblique glance at the reviewing stand, the sergeant ordered the company to march "Oblique Right."

Question 50

obliterate

Answer 50

V. /彻底摧毁/destroy completely. The tidal wave obliterated several island villages,

Question 51

oblivion

Answer 51

N. /遗忘；赦免/obscurity; forgetfulness. After a decade of pop¬ularity, Hurston's works had fallen into oblivion; no one bothered to read them any more.

Question 52

oblivious

Answer 52

ADJ. /遗忘的；出神的/inattentive or unmindful; wholly absorbed. Deep in her book, Nancy was oblivious to the noisy squab¬bles of her brother and his friends.

Question 53

obnoxious

Answer 53

ADJ. /讨厌的；冒犯的/offensive. I find your behavior obnoxious; please mend your ways.

Question 54

obscure

Answer 54

ADJ. /模糊的，不明了的，暗淡的/dark; vague; unclear. Even after I read the poem a fourth time, its meaning was still obscure. obscu¬rity, N.

Question 55

obscure

Answer 55

V. /使模糊；使暗淡/darken; make unclear. At times he seemed purposely to obscure his meaning, preferring mystery to clarity.

Question 56

obsequious

Answer 56

ADJ. /谄媚的；拍马屁的；奴性的/slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic. Helen liked to be served by people who behaved as if they respected themselves; nothing irritated her more than an excessively obsequious waiter or a fawning salesclerk.

Question 57

obsessive

Answer 57

ADJ. /强迫性的，入迷的；出神的/related to thinking about something con¬stantly; preoccupying. Ballet, which had been a hobby, began to dominate his life: his love of dancing became obsessive. obsession, N.