Barron 3500 SAT List 39

Question 0

queasy

Answer 0

ADJ. /神经质的，洁癖的；易呕吐的/easily nauseated; squeamish. Remember that great chase movie, the one with the carsick passenger? That’s right: Queasy Rider!

Question 1

quay

Answer 1

N. /码头/dock; landing place. Because of the captain’s carelessness, the ship crashed into the quay.

Question 2

quell

Answer 2

V. /扑灭；镇压；平息/extinguish; put down; quiet. Miss Minchin’s demeanor was so stern and forbidding that she could quell any unrest among her students with one intimidating glance.

Question 3

quench

Answer 3

V. /弄湿；扑灭；熄灭；淬火/douse or extinguish; assuage or satisfy. No matter how much water the hiker drank, she could not quench her thirst.

Question 4

querulous

Answer 4

ADJ. /鸣不平的；易发牢骚的/fretful; whining. Even the most agreeable toddlers can begin to act querulous if they miss their nap.

Question 5

query

Answer 5

N. /问询；质问/inquiry; question. In her column “Ask Beth,” the columnist invites young readers to send her their queries about life and love.

Question 6

quibble

Answer 6

N. /遁词；狡辩；支吾；吹毛求疵/minor objection or complaint. Aside from a few hundred teensy-weensy quibbles about the set, the script, the actors, the director, the costumes, the lighting, and the props, the hypercritical critic loved the play. alsoV.

Question 7

quiescent

Answer 7

ADJ. /睡眠的；休息的；暂停活动的/at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive. After the great eruption, fear of Mount Etna was great; people did not return to cultivate its rich hillside lands until the volcano had been quiescent for a full two years. quiescence, N.

Question 8

quietude

Answer 8

N. /平静；宁静/tranquility. He was impressed by the air of qui¬etude and peace that pervaded the valley.

Question 9

quintessence

Answer 9

N. /精粹；精华/purest and highest embodiment. Noel Coward displayed the quintessence of wit.

Question 10

quip

Answer 10

N. /嘲弄；讽刺/taunt. You are unpopular because you are too free with your quips and sarcastic comments. alsoV.

Question 11

quirk

Answer 11

N. /反复无常；怪僻/startling twist; caprice. By a quirk of fate, he found himself working for the man whom he had discharged years before.

Question 12

quiver

Answer 12

V. /振动的；颤抖的；敏捷的/tremble; shake. The bird dog’s nose twitched and his whiskers quivered as he strained eagerly against the leash. also N.

Question 13

quiver

Answer 13

N. /射箭的/case for arrows. Robin Hood reached back and plucked one last arrow from his quiver. (secondary meaning)

Question 14

quixotic

Answer 14

ADJ. /空想的；狂想的/idealistic but impractical. Constantly coming up with quixotic, unworkable schemes to save the world, Simon has his heart in the right place, but his head some¬where in the clouds.

Question 15

quizzical

Answer 15

ADJ. /古怪的；嘲弄的；令人好奇的/teasing; bantering; mocking; curious. When the skinny teenager tripped over his own feet stepping into the bullpen, Coach raised one quizzical eyebrow, shook his head, and said, “Okay, kid. You’re here, let’s see what you’ve got.”

Question 16

quorum

Answer 16

N. /法定人数/number of members necessary to conduct a meeting. The senator asked for a roll call to determine whether a quorum was present.

Question 17

rabid

Answer 17

ADJ. /狂暴的；激烈的/like a fanatic; furious. He was a rabid follower of the Dodgers and watched them play whenever he could go to the ball park.

Question 18

raconteur

Answer 18

N. /善谈的人；满肚子故事的人/storyteller. My father was a gifted raconteur with an unlimited supply of anecdotes.

Question 19

rail

Answer 19

V. /责骂；斥责；咆哮/scold; rant. You may rail at him all you want; you will never change him.

Question 20

raiment

Answer 20

N. /衣服/clothing. “How can I go to the ball?” asked Cin¬derella. “I have no raiment fit to wear.”

Question 21

rally

Answer 21

V. /复原，恢复；召集，集合/call up or summon (forces, vital powers, etc.); revive or recuperate. Washington quickly rallied his troops to fight off the British attack. The patient had been sinking throughout the night, but at dawn she rallied and made a complete recovery.

Question 22

ramble

Answer 22

V. /游荡；漫无目的游荡/wander aimlessly (physically or mentally). Lis¬tening to the teacher ramble, Judy wondered whether he’d ever get to his point.

Question 23

ramification

Answer 23

N. /分支；分叉/branching out; subdivision. We must exam¬ine all the ramifications of this problem.

Question 24

ramify

Answer 24

V. /分支；分开/divide into branches or subdivisions. When the plant begins to ramify, it is advisable to nip off most of the new branches.

Question 25

ramp

Answer 25

N. /斜面；斜坡/slope; inclined plane. The house was built with ramps instead of stairs in order to enable the man in the wheelchair to move easily from room to room and floor to floor.

Question 26

rampant

Answer 26

ADJ. /猖獗的；滋生的；猛烈的/growing in profusion; unrestrained. The ram¬pant weeds in the garden choked the flowers until they died.

Question 27

ramshackle

Answer 27

ADJ. /摇摆的；摇摇欲坠的/rickety; falling apart. The boys propped up the ramshackle clubhouse with a couple of boards.

Question 28

rancid

Answer 28

ADJ. /油脂一样腐臭的/having the odor of stale fat. A rancid odor filled the ship's galley and nauseated the crew.

Question 29

rancor

Answer 29

N. /苦难/bitterness; hatred. Thirty years after the war, she could not let go of the past but was still consumed with ran¬cor against the foe.

Question 30

random

Answer 30

ADJ. /随机的/without definite purpose, plan, or aim; hap¬hazard. Although the sponsor of the raffle claimed all win¬ners were chosen at random, people had their suspicions when the grand prize went to the sponsor's brother-in-law.

Question 31

rankle

Answer 31

V. /激怒；溃烂；化脓/irritate; fester. The memory of having been jilted rankled him for years.

Question 32

rant

Answer 32

V. /咆哮；激昂的演说；斥责/rave; talk excitedly; scold; make a grandiloquent speech. When he heard that I'd totaled the family car, Dad began to rant at me like a complete madman.

Question 33

rapacious

Answer 33

ADJ. /极度贪婪的；捕食的；掠夺的/excessively greedy; predatory. The rapa-cious brigands stripped the villagers of all their posses¬sions. rapacity, N.

Question 34

rapport

Answer 34

N. /情感的亲近；和谐/emotional closeness; harmony. In team teach¬ing, it is important that all teachers in the group have good rapport with one another.

Question 35

rapt

Answer 35

ADJ. /迷住的；全神贯注的/absorbed; enchanted. Caught up in the wonder of the storyteller's tale, the rapt listeners sat motionless, hanging on his every word.

Question 36

rarefied

Answer 36

ADJ. /稀释（气体）/made less dense (of a gas]. The mountain climbers had difficulty breathing in the rarefied atmosphere. rarefy,V.

Question 37

raspy

Answer 37

ADJ. /刺耳的；焦躁的/grating; harsh. The sergeant's raspy voice grated on the recruits' ears.

Question 38

ratify

Answer 38

V. /批准，认可/approve formally; confirm; verify. Party leaders doubted that they had enough votes in both houses of Con¬gress to ratify the constitutional amendment.

Question 39

ratiocination

Answer 39

N. /推理；推论/reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises. While Watson was a man of average intelli¬gence, Holmes was a genius, whose gift for ratiocination made him a superb detective.

Question 40

rationale

Answer 40

N. /基础科学；基本原理/fundamental reason or justification; grounds for an action. Her need to have someplace to hang her ear¬ring collection was Dora's rationale for piercing fifteen holes in each ear.

Question 41

rationalize

Answer 41

V. /合理化/give a plausible reason for an action in place of a true, less admirable one; offer an excuse. When David told gabby Gabrielle he couldn't give her a ride to the dance because he had no room in the car, he was rational¬izing; actually, he couldn't stand being cooped up in a car with anyone who talked as much as she did.

Question 42

raucous

Answer 42

ADJ. /沙哑的/harsh and shrill; disorderly and boisterous. The raucous crowd of New Year's Eve revelers got progres¬sively noisier as midnight drew near.

Question 43

rave

Answer 43

N. /咆哮/overwhelmingly favorable review. Though critic John Simon seldom has a good word to say about most contemporary plays, his review of All in the Timing was a total rave.

Question 44

ravel

Answer 44

V. /使混乱；解开混乱，解决混乱/fall apart into tangles; unravel or untwist; entangle. A single thread pulled loose, and the entire scarf started to ravel.

Question 45

ravenous

Answer 45

ADJ. /饥饿的/extremely hungry. The ravenous dog upset several garbage pails in its search for food.

Question 46

raze

Answer 46

V. /彻底摧毁/destroy completely. Spelling is important: to raise a building is to put it up; to raze a building is to tear it down.

Question 47

reactionary

Answer 47

ADJ. /反作用的/recoiling from progress; politically ultra¬conservative. Opposing the use of English in worship ser¬vices, reactionary forces in the church fought to reinstate the mass in Latin.

Question 48

realm

Answer 48

N. /领域/kingdom; field or sphere. In the animal realm, the lion is the king of beasts.

Question 49

reaper

Answer 49

N. /收割者；收割机/one who harvests grain. Death, the Grim Reaper, cuts down mortal men and women, just as a farmer cuts down the ripened grain. reap,V.

Question 50

rebuff

Answer 50

V. /回绝/snub; beat back. She rebuffed his invitation so smoothly that he did not realize he had been snubbed. also N.

Question 51

rebuke

Answer 51

V. /严厉批评；猛烈的训斥/scold harshly; criticize severely. No matter how sharply Miss Watson rebuked Huck for his misconduct, he never talked back but just stood there like a stump. also N.

Question 52

rebuttal

Answer 52

N. /驳斥；举反证/refutation; response with contrary evidence. The defense lawyer confidently listened to the prosecutor sum up his case, sure that she could answer his arguments in her rebuttal.

Question 53

recalcitrant

Answer 53

ADJ. /反抗的；顽抗的/obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly. Which animal do you think is more recalci¬trant, a pig or a mule?

Question 54

recant

Answer 54

V. /放弃；宣布放弃/disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error. Those who can, keep true to their faith; those who can't, recant. Hoping to make Joan of Arc recant her sworn testimony, her English captors tried to convince her that her visions had been sent to her by the Devil.

Question 55

recapitulate

Answer 55

V. /概括；总结/summarize. Let us recapitulate what has been said thus far before going ahead.

Question 56

recast

Answer 56

V. /重建/reconstruct (a sentence, story, etc.); fashion again. Let me recast this sentence in terms your feeble brain can grasp: in words of one syllable, you are a fool.

Question 57

receptive

Answer 57

ADJ. /善于接受的/quick or willing to receive ideas, sugges¬tions, etc. Adventure-loving Huck Finn proved a receptive audience for Tom's tales of buried treasure and piracy.

Question 58

recession

Answer 58

N. /撤退/withdrawal; retreat; time of low economic activity. The slow recession of the flood waters created problems for the crews working to restore power to the area. recede,V.

Question 59

recidivism

Answer 59

N. /累犯；惯犯/habitual return to crime. Prison reformers in the United States are disturbed by the high rate of recidivism; the number of men serving second and third terms in prison indicates the failure of prisons to rehabilitate the inmates.

Question 60

recipient

Answer 60

N. /接受的东西；容器/receiver. Although he had been the recipient of many favors, he was not grateful to his benefactor.

Question 61

reciprocal

Answer 61

ADJ. /互相的；互动的；互惠的/mutual; exchangeable; interacting. The two nations signed a reciprocal trade agreement.

Question 62

reciprocate

Answer 62

V. /互给；呼唤；酬答/repay in kind. If they attack us, we shall be compelled to reciprocate and bomb their territory. reci¬procity, N.

Question 63

recluse

Answer 63

N. /隐遁者；寂寞者/hermit; loner. Disappointed in love, Miss Emily became a recluse; she shut herself away in her empty man¬sion and refused to see another living soul. reclusive,ADJ.

Question 64

reconcile

Answer 64

V. /抛弃前嫌；不打不相识；结为好友；化解冲突/correct inconsistencies; become friendly after a quarrel. Each month when we try to reconcile our checkbook with the bank statement, we quarrel. However, despite these monthly lovers' quarrels, we always manage to reconcile.

Question 65

reconnaissance

Answer 65

N. /侦查/survey of enemy by soldiers; reconnoi¬tering. If you encounter any enemy soldiers during your reconnaissance, capture them for questioning.

Question 66

recount

Answer 66

V. /解说，告诉；重新数/narrate or tell; count over again. A born story¬teller, my father loved to recount anecdotes about his early years in New York.

Question 67

recourse

Answer 67

N. /求助；求援/resorting to help when in trouble. The boy's only recourse was to appeal to his father for aid.

Question 68

recrimination

Answer 68

N. /反责；反击/countercharges. Loud and angry recrimi¬nations were her answer to his accusations.

Question 69

rectify

Answer 69

V. /纠正/set right; correct. You had better send a check to rectify your account before American Express cancels your credit card.

Question 70

rectitude

Answer 70

N. /垂直；正直；公正/uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judg¬ment. The Eagle Scout was a model of rectitude.

Question 71

recumbent

Answer 71

ADJ. /靠着的；斜躺的；不动的；休息的/reclining; lying down completely or in part. The command "AT EASE" does not permit you to take a recumbent position.

Question 72

recuperate

Answer 72

V. /恢复/recover. The doctors were worried because the patient did not recuperate as rapidly as they had expected.

Question 73

recurrent

Answer 73

ADJ. /一遍又一遍发生的；循环发生的/occurring again and again. Richard's recurrent asthma attacks disturbed us and we consulted a physician.