Barron 3500 SAT List 41

Question 0

reserve

Answer 0

N. /自我控制；疏远/self-control; formal but distant manner. Although some girls were attracted by Mark’s air of reserve, Judy was put off by it, for she felt his aloofness indicated a lack of openness. reserved,ADJ.

Question 1

resentment

Answer 1

N. /怨恨；愤恨/indignation; bitterness; displeasure. Not wanting to appear a sore loser, Bill tried to hide his resent¬ment of Barry’s success.

Question 2

residue

Answer 2

N. /残留物；余额/remainder; balance. In his will, he requested that after payment of debts, taxes, and funeral expenses, the residue be given to his wife. residual,ADJ.

Question 3

resigned

Answer 3

ADJ. /认命，顺从；听天由命/accepting one’s fate; unresisting; patiently submissive. Resigned to his downtrodden existence, Bob Cratchit was too meek to protest Scrooge’s bullying. resig¬nation, N.

Question 4

resilient

Answer 4

ADJ. /弹性的/elastic; having the power of springing back. Highly resilient, steel makes excellent bedsprings. resilience, N.

Question 5

resolution

Answer 5

N. /坚定；决心；决定/determination; resolve. Nothing could shake his resolution that his children would get the best education that money could buy. resolute,ADJ.

Question 6

resolve

Answer 6

N. /决心；解决/determination; firmness of purpose. How dare you question my resolve to take up sky-diving! Of course I haven’t changed my mind!

Question 7

resolve

Answer 7

V. /决定；安排/decide; settle; solve. Holmes resolved to travel to Bohemia to resolve the dispute between Irene Adler and the king.

Question 8

resonant

Answer 8

ADJ. /共鸣的/echoing; resounding; deep and full in sound. The deep, resonant voice of the actor James Earl Jones makes him particularly effective when he appears on stage.

Question 9

respiration

Answer 9

N. /呼吸；呼吸作用；呼气/breathing; exhalation. The doctor found that the patient’s years of smoking had adversely affected both his lung capacity and his rate of respiration.

Question 10

respite

Answer 10

N. /暂缓/interval of relief; time for rest; delay in punish¬ment. After working nonstop on this project for three straight months. I need a respite! For David, the two weeks vaca¬tioning in New Zealand were a delightful respite from the pressures of his job.

Question 11

resplendent

Answer 11

ADJ. /辉煌的；光辉的/dazzling; glorious; brilliant. While all the adults were commenting how glorious the emperor looked in his resplendent new clothes, one little boy was heard to say, “But he’s naked!”

Question 12

responsiveness

Answer 12

N. /响应的/state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc. The audience cheered and applauded, delight¬ing the performers by its responsiveness.

Question 13

restitution

Answer 13

N. /归还；补偿/reparation; indemnification. He offered to make restitution for the window broken by his son.

Question 14

restive

Answer 14

ADJ. /焦躁不安的；难以压抑的/restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting con-trol. Waiting impatiently in line to see Santa Claus, even the best-behaved children grow restive and start to fidget.

Question 15

restraint

Answer 15

N. /抑制；控制/moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction. Control yourself. young lady! Show some restraint!

Question 16

resumption

Answer 16

N. /恢复；重新开始/taking up again; recommencement. During summer break, Don had not realized how much he missed university life: at the resumption of classes, however, he felt marked excitement and pleasure. resume,V.

Question 17

resurge

Answer 17

V. /复活/rise again; flow to and fro. It was startling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disinte¬grated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups. resurgence, N.

Question 18

retain

Answer 18

V. /保持；使用/keep; employ. Fighting to retain his seat in Con¬gress, Senator Foghorn retained a new manager to head his reelection campaign.

Question 19

retaliation

Answer 19

N. /报仇/repayment in kind (usually for bad treat¬ment). Because everyone knew the Princeton Band had stolen Brown’s mascot, the whole Princeton student body expected some sort of retaliation from Brown. retaliate,V.

Question 20

retentive

Answer 20

ADJ. /保持的；记性好的/holding; having a good memory. The pupil did not need to spend much time studying, for he had a retentive mind and remembered all he read.

Question 21

reticence

Answer 21

N. /不动声色的；深藏不露的；沉默寡言的/reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to silence. Fearing his competitors might get advance word about his plans from talkative staff members, Hughes pre¬ferred reticence from his employees to loquacity. reticent,ADJ.

Question 22

retinue

Answer 22

N. /随行人员；扈从/following; attendants. The queen’s retinue fol¬lowed her down the aisle.

Question 23

retiring

Answer 23

ADJ. /退休的；谦虚的，害羞的/modest; shy. Given Susan’s retiring personal¬ity, no one expected her to take up public speaking; sur¬prisingly enough, she became a star of the school debate team,

Question 24

retort

Answer 24

N. /反驳；曲颈甑/quick sharp reply. Even when it was advisable for her to keep her mouth shut, she was always ready with a quick retort. alsoV.

Question 25

retract

Answer 25

V. /撤回，撤退/withdraw; take back. When I saw how Fred and his fraternity brothers had trashed the frat house, I decided to retract my offer to let them use our summer cottage for the weekend. retraction, N.

Question 26

retrench

Answer 26

V. /裁减，削减；紧缩，节约/cut down; economize. In order to be able to afford to send their children to college, they would have to retrench. retrenchment, N.

Question 27

retribution

Answer 27

N. /复仇；补偿；惩罚/vengeance; compensation; punishment for offenses. The evangelist maintained that an angry deity would exact retribution from the sinners.

Question 28

retrieve

Answer 28

V. /重新得到；找回/recover; find and bring in. The dog was intelligent and quickly learned to retrieve the game killed by the hunter.

Question 29

retroactive

Answer 29

ADJ. /反动的；（法律）追溯的（由制定之日前的某一天生效）/of a law that dates back to a period before its enactment. Because the law was retroactive to the first of the year, we found she was eligible for the pension.

Question 30

retrograde

Answer 30

V. /倒退的/go backwards; degenerate. instead of advancing, our civilization seems to have retrograded in ethics and culture. alsoADJ.

Question 31

retrospective

Answer 31

ADJ. /回顾的/looking back on the past. The Museum of Graphic Arts is holding a retrospective showing of the paintings of Michael Whelan over the past two decades.

Question 32

revelry

Answer 32

N. /狂欢/boisterous merrymaking. New Year's Eve is a night of revelry

Question 33

reverent

Answer 33

ADJ. /尊敬的；可敬的/respectful; worshipful. Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don't feel properly reverent. revere,V.

Question 34

reverie

Answer 34

N. /冥想；发呆；白日梦/daydream; musing. He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher's question.

Question 35

revert

Answer 35

V. /回复；故态复萌/relapse; backslide; turn back to. Most of the time Andy seemed sensitive and mature, but occasionally he would revert to his smart-alecky, macho, adolescent self.

Question 36

revile

Answer 36

V. /辱骂，谩骂，诽谤/attack with abusive language; vilify. Though most of his contemporaries reviled Captain Kidd as a notorious, bloody-handed pirate, some of his fellow merchant-cap¬tains believed him innocent of his alleged crimes.

Question 37

revoke

Answer 37

V. /撤回；取消/cancel; retract. Repeat offenders who continue to drive under the influence of alcohol face having their dri¬ver's licenses permanently revoked.

Question 38

revulsion

Answer 38

N. /剧变（情感的）；抽回；收手/sudden violent change of feeling; reaction. Many people in this country who admired dictatorships underwent a revulsion when they realized what Hitler and Mussolini were trying to do.

Question 39

rhapsodize

Answer 39

V. /狂热地描述；写狂想文，作狂想曲/to speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthu¬siastic manner. She greatly enjoyed her Hawaiian vacation and rhapsodized about it for weeks.

Question 40

rhetoric

Answer 40

N. /说话的学问；花言巧语/art of effective communication; insincere lan¬guage. All writers, by necessity, must be skilled in rhetoric.

Question 41

rhetorical

Answer 41

ADJ. /修辞色彩的；花言巧语的/pertaining to effective communication; insincere in language. To win his audience; the speaker used every rhetorical trick in the book.

Question 42

ribald

Answer 42

ADJ. /下流的；放荡的；亵渎的/wanton; profane. He sang a ribald song that offended many of the more prudish listeners.

Question 43

riddle

Answer 43

V. /刺出无数窟窿，打排孔；充斥，弥漫；通过粗眼筛子过滤；谜语；解决，解释；提出，解谜/pierce with holes; permeate or spread through¬out. With his machine gun, Tracy riddled the car with bullets till it looked like a slice of Swiss cheese. During the proof¬readers' strike, the newspaper was riddled with typos.

Question 44

rider

Answer 44

N. /附文；扶手/amendment or clause added to a legislative bill. Senator Foghorn said he would support Senator Filibuster's tax reform bill only if Filibuster agreed to add an antipollu¬tion riderto the bill.

Question 45

rife

Answer 45

ADJ. /普遍的/abundant; current. In the face of the many rumors of scandal, which are rife at the moment, it is best to remain silent.

Question 46

rift

Answer 46

N. /裂缝；破口/opening; break. The plane was lost in the stormy sky until the pilot saw the city through a rift in the clouds.

Question 47

rig

Answer 47

V. /配备；装备/fix or manipulate. The ward boss was able to rig the election by bribing people to stuff the ballot boxes with bal¬lots marked in his candidate's favor.

Question 48

rigid

Answer 48

ADJ. /刚硬的；不屈的/stiff and unyielding; strict; hard and unbending. By living with a man to whom she was not married, George Eliot broke Victorian society's most rigid rule of respectable behavior.

Question 49

rigor

Answer 49

N. /严格，苛刻；精确/severity. Many settlers could not stand the rigors of the New England winters.

Question 50

rigorous

Answer 50

ADJ. /严峻的；严格的；严厉的/severe; harsh; demanding; exact. Disliked by his superiors, the officer candidate in An Officer and a Gen¬tleman endured an extremely rigorous training program.

Question 51

rile

Answer 51

V. /激怒/vex; irritate; muddy. Red had a hair-trigger temper: he was an easy man to rile.

Question 52

riveting

Answer 52

ADJ. /迷人的/absorbing; engrossing. The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.

Question 53

rivulet

Answer 53

N. /小溪/small stream. As the rains continued, the small trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that threatened to wash away a portion of the slope.

Question 54

robust

Answer 54

ADJ. /健壮的/vigorous; strong. After pumping iron and tak¬ing karate for six months, the little old lady was so robust that she could break a plank with her fist.

Question 55

roil

Answer 55

V. /搅动（使水变浑）;激怒/to make liquids murky by stirring up sediment. Be careful when you pour not to roil the wine; if you stir up the sediment you'll destroy the flavor.

Question 56

roster

Answer 56

N. /列表/list. They print the roster of players in the sea¬son's program.

Question 57

rostrum

Answer 57

N. /演讲台；讲道坛/platform for speech-making; pulpit. The crowd murmured angrily and indicated that they did not care to lis¬ten to the speaker who was approaching the rostrum.

Question 58

rote

Answer 58

N. /生搬硬套；死记硬背/repetition. He recited the passage by rote and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.

Question 59

rotundity

Answer 59

N. /圆形，球状；洪亮的演讲/roundness; sonorousness of speech. Wash¬ington Irving emphasized the rotundity of the governor by describing his height and circumference.

Question 60

rousing

Answer 60

ADJ. /活跃的；煽动的/lively; stirring. "And now, let's have a rousing welcome for TV's own Roseanne Barr, who'll lead us in a rousing rendition of 'The Star-Spangled Banner."'

Question 61

rout

Answer 61

V. /吓跑；赶出；击退/stampede; drive out. The reinforcements were able to rout the enemy. also N.

Question 62

rubble

Answer 62

N. /碎片/broken fragments. Ten years after World War II, some of the rubble left by enemy bombings could still be seen.

Question 63

ruddy

Answer 63

ADJ. /红的；红润的，白里透红的；健康的/reddish; healthy-looking. Santa Claus's ruddy cheeks nicely complement Rudolph the Reindeer's bright red nose.

Question 64

rudimentary

Answer 64

ADJ. /原始的；最初的；原来的/not developed; elementary; crude. Although my grandmother's English vocabulary was limited to a few rudimentary phrases, she always could make her¬self understood.

Question 65

rue

Answer 65

V. /懊悔；后悔；感伤/regret; lament; mourn. Tina rued the night she met Tony and wondered how she ever fell for such a jerk. rueful,ADJ.

Question 66

ruffian

Answer 66

N. /流氓；恶棍；痞子/bully; scoundrel. The ruffians threw stones at the police.

Question 67

ruminate

Answer 67

V. /反复咀嚼；消化；深思；反刍/chew over and over (mentally, or, like cows, physically); mull over; ponder. Unable to digest quickly the baffling events of the day, Reuben ruminated about them till four in the morning.

Question 68

rummage

Answer 68

V. /到处翻寻/ransack; thoroughly search. When we rum¬maged through the trunks in the attic, we found many sou¬venirs of our childhood days. also N.

Question 69

ruse

Answer 69

N. /技巧；策略，计谋/trick; stratagem. You will not be able to fool your friends with such an obvious ruse.

Question 70

rustic

Answer 70

ADJ. /乡村的；笨拙的，不舒服的/pertaining to country people; uncouth. The backwoodsman looked out of place in his rustic attire.

Question 71

ruthless

Answer 71

ADJ. /无情的/pitiless; cruel. Captain Hook was a danger¬ous, ruthless villain who would stop at nothing to destroy Peter Pan.

Question 72

saboteur

Answer 72

N. /破坏分子；怠工者/one who commits sabotage; destroyer of property. Members of the Resistance acted as saboteurs, blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army.

Question 73

saccharine

Answer 73

ADJ. /糖精的；代糖的；极甜的/cloyingly sweet. She tried to ingratiate herself, speaking sweetly and smiling a saccharine smile.

Question 74

sacrilegious

Answer 74

ADJ. /亵渎的，天谴的/desecrating; profane. His stealing of the altar cloth was a very sacrilegious act.

Question 75

sacrosanct

Answer 75

ADJ. /非常神圣的/most sacred; inviolable. The brash insur¬ance salesman invaded the sacrosanct privacy of the office of the president of the company.