Barron 3500 SAT List 41-50 From Alex

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.

Question 76

sadistic

Answer 76

ADJ. /虐待狂的；残忍成性的/inclined to cruelty. If we are to improve condi- tions in this prison, we must first get rid of the sadistic warden.

Question 77

saga

Answer 77

N. /斯堪的纳维亚的传说；传奇/Scandinavian myth; any legend. This is a saga of the sea and the men who risk their lives on it.

Question 78

Sagacious

Answer 78

ADJ. /有洞察力的/perceptive; shrewd; having insight. My father was a sagacious judge of character: he could spot a phony a mile away. sagacity, N.

Question 79

sage

Answer 79

N. /智者；圣人/person celebrated for wisdom. Hearing tales of a mysterious Master of All Knowledge who lived in the hills of Tibet, Sandy was possessed with a burning desire to con¬sult the legendary sage. alsoADJ.

Question 80

salacious

Answer 80

ADJ. /好色的；淫荡的/lascivious; lustful. Chaucer's monk is not pious but salacious. a teller of lewd tales and ribald jests.

Question 81

salient

Answer 81

ADJ. /显著的；突出的；卓越的/prominent. One of the salient features of that newspaper is its excellent editorial page.

Question 82

salubrious

Answer 82

ADJ. /对健康有益的，利于养生的/healthful. Many people with hay fever move to more salubrious sections of the country during the months of August and September.

Question 83

salutary

Answer 83

ADJ. /有用的；有益的/tending to improve; beneficial; wholesome. The punishment had a salutary effect on the boy, as he became a model student.

Question 84

salvage

Answer 84

V. /补救；抢救；打捞；营救/rescue from loss. All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed. also N.

Question 85

salvo

Answer 85

N. /解除武装；敬礼；保留条款/discharge of firearms; military salute. The boom of the enemy's opening salvo made the petrified private jump.

Question 86

sanctimonious

Answer 86

ADJ. /假正经的；假装神圣的/displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness. You do not have to be so sanctimonious to prove that you are devout.

Question 87

sanction

Answer 87

V. /批准，许可/approve; ratify. Nothing will convince me to sanction the engagement of my daughter to such a worth¬less young man.

Question 88

sanctuary

Answer 88

N. /避难所/refuge; shelter; shrine; holy place. The tiny attic was Helen's sanctuary to which she fled when she had to get away from the rest of her family.

Question 89

sanguine

Answer 89

ADJ. /高兴的；有希望的；乐天的/cheerful; hopeful. Let us not be too san¬guine about the outcome; something could go wrong.

Question 90

sap

Answer 90

V. /减少；破坏/diminish; undermine. The element kryptonite has an unhealthy effect on Superman: it saps his strength.

Question 91

sarcasm

Answer 91

N. /挖苦；讽刺/scornful remarks; stinging rebuke. Though Ralph pretended to ignore the mocking comments of his supposed friends, their sarcasm wounded him deeply.

Question 92

sardonic

Answer 92

ADJ. /讽刺的/disdainful; sarcastic; cynical. The sardonic humor of nightclub comedians who satirize or ridicule patrons in the audience strikes some people as amusing and others as rude.

Question 93

sartorial

Answer 93

ADJ. /裁缝的；缝纫机的；缝匠肌的/pertaining to tailors. He was as famous for the sartorial splendor of his attire as he was for his acting.

Question 94

sate

Answer 94

V. /使心满意足；使过度满足；使腻/satisfy to the full; cloy. Its hunger sated. the lion dozed.

Question 95

satellite

Answer 95

N. /卫星/small body revolving around a larger one. Dur¬ing the first few years of the Space Age, hundreds of satel¬lites were launched by Russia and the United States.

Question 96

satiate

Answer 96

V. /完全满足/satisfy fully. Having stuffed themselves until they were satiated, the guests were so full they were ready for a nap.

Question 97

satire

Answer 97

N. /讽刺的/form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack vice and folly. Gulliver's Travels, which is regarded by many as a tale for children, is actually a bitter satire attacking man's folly.

Question 98

satirical

Answer 98

ADJ. /嘲弄的/mocking. The humor of cartoonist Gary Trudeau often is satirical; through the comments of the Doonesbury characters, Trudeau ridicules political corrup¬tion and folly.

Question 99

saturate

Answer 99

V. /湿透/soak thoroughly. Saturate your sponge with water until it can't hold any more.

Question 100

saturnine

Answer 100

ADJ. /阴郁的/gloomy. Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance; he is not as gloomy as he looks.

Question 101

saunter

Answer 101

V. /漫步；闲逛/stroll slowly. As we sauntered through the park, we stopped frequently to admire the spring flowers.

Question 102

savant

Answer 102

N. /专家，学者/scholar. Our faculty includes many world¬famous savants.

Question 103

savor

Answer 103

V. /有滋有味儿的；享受这种滋味/enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality. Relishing his triumph, the actor especially savored the cha¬grin of the critics who had predicted his failure.

Question 104

savory

Answer 104

ADJ. /有味道的；吸引人的/tasty; pleasing, attractive, or agreeable. Julia Child's recipes enable amateur chefs to create savory deli¬cacies for their guests.

Question 105

scabbard

Answer 105

N. /剑鞘/case for a sword blade; sheath. The drill mas¬ter told the recruit to wipe the blood from his sword before slipping it back into the scabbard.

Question 106

scad

Answer 106

N. /大批的，许多/a great quantity. Refusing Dave's offer to lend him a shirt, Phil replied, "No, thanks, I've got scads of clothes."

Question 107

scaffold

Answer 107

N. /脚手架；绞刑架/temporary platform for workers; bracing frame¬work; platform for execution. Before painting the house, the workers put up a scaffold to allow them to work on the sec¬ond story.

Question 108

scale

Answer 108

V. /爬升；升高/climb up; ascend. In order to locate a book on the top shelf of the stacks, Lee had to scale an exceptionally rickety ladder.

Question 109

scamp

Answer 109

N. /流氓，无赖/rascal. Despite his mischievous behavior, Mal¬colm was such an engaging scamp that his mother almost lacked the heart to punish him.

Question 110

scanty

Answer 110

ADJ. /缺乏的；稀疏的/meager; insufficient. Thinking his helping of food was scanty, Oliver Twist asked for more.

Question 111

scapegoat

Answer 111

N. /替罪羊/someone who bears the blame for others. After the Challenger disaster, NASA searched for scape¬goats on whom they could cast the blame.

Question 112

scavenge

Answer 112

V. /腐食；打扫/hunt through discarded materials for usable items; search, especially for food. If you need car parts that the dealers no longer stock, try scavenging for odd bits and pieces at the auto wreckers' yards. scavenger, N.

Question 113

scenario

Answer 113

N. /情节；剧本大纲；（电影、歌剧）剧本/plot outline; screenplay; opera libretto. Scara¬mouche startled the other actors in the commedia troupe when he suddenly departed from their customary scenario and began to improvise.

Question 114

schematic

Answer 114

ADJ. /示例的；示意性的/relating to an outline or diagram; using a system of symbols. In working out the solution to this logic puzzle, you may find it helpful to construct a simple schematic diagram outlining the order of events.

Question 115

schism

Answer 115

N. /分离/division; split. Let us not widen the schism by further bickering.

Question 116

scintillate

Answer 116

V. /迸出火花；发出闪烁/sparkle; flash. I enjoy her dinner parties because the food is excellent and the conversation scintil¬lates.

Question 117

scoff

Answer 117

V. /嘲弄，奚落/mock; ridicule. He scoffed at dentists until he had his first toothache.

Question 118

scourge

Answer 118

N. /鞭笞；蹂躏/lash; whip; severe punishment. They feared the plague and regarded it as a deadly scourge. alsoV.

Question 119

scruple

Answer 119

V. /踌躇；忧郁/fret about; hesitate, for ethical reasons. Fearing that her husband had become involved in an affair, she did not scruple to read his diary. also N.

Question 120

scrupulous

Answer 120

ADJ. /小心翼翼的；谨慎的/conscientious; extremely thorough. Though Alfred is scrupulous in fulfilling his duties at work, he is less conscientious about his obligations to his family and friends.

Question 121

scrutinize

Answer 121

V. /明察/examine closely and critically. Searching for flaws, the sergeant scrutinized every detail of the private's uniform.

Question 122

scuffle

Answer 122

V. /徘徊（思考问题）；混战/struggle confusedly; move off in a confused hurry. The twins briefly scuffled, wrestling to see which of them would get the toy. When their big brother yelled, "Let go of my Gameboy!" they scuffled off down the hall. scurrilous ADJ. obscene; indecent. Your scurrilous remarks are especially offensive because they are untrue.

Question 123

scurry

Answer 123

V. /轻快的；活泼的移动/move briskly. The White Rabbit had to scurry to get to his appointment on time.

Question 124

scurvy

Answer 124

ADJ. /下流的；卑鄙的，无理的；坏血病/despicable; contemptible. Peter Pan sneered at Captain Hook and his scurvy crew.

Question 125

scuttle

Answer 125

V. /迈着碎步轻快的走/scurry; run with short, rapid steps. The bug scut¬tled rapidly across the floor.

Question 126

scuttle

Answer 126

V. /沉没/sink. The sailors decided to scuttle their vessel rather than surrender it to the enemy.

Question 127

seamy

Answer 127

ADJ. /丑恶的；露出嘴脸的/sordid; unwholesome. In The Godfather, Michael Corleone is unwilling to expose his wife and chil¬dren to the seamy side of his life as the son of a Mafia don. sear V. char or burn; brand. Accidentally brushing against the hot grill, she seared her hand badly.

Question 128

seasoned

Answer 128

ADJ. /老练的/experienced. Though pleased with her new batch of rookies, the basketball coach wished she had a few more seasoned players on the team.

Question 129

secession

Answer 129

N. /撤退；脱离/withdrawal. The secession of the Southern states provided Lincoln with his first major problem after his inauguration. secede,V.

Question 130

seclusion

Answer 130

N. /隔离/isolation; solitude. One moment she loved crowds; the next, she sought seclusion. seclude,V.

Question 131

secrete

Answer 131

V. /隐匿；藏匿；分泌/hide away; produce and release a substance into an organism. The pack rat secretes odds and ends in its nest; the pancreas secretes insulin in the islets of Langerhans. sect N. separate religious body; faction. As university chaplain, she sought to address universal religious issues and not limit herself to concerns of any one sect.

Question 132

sectarian

Answer 132

ADJ. /宗派主义的；地区主义的；宗派主义者；狭窄的/relating to a religious faction or subgroup; narrow-minded; limited. Far from being broad-minded, the religious leader was intolerant of new ideas, paying atten¬tion only to purely sectarian interests. sect. N.

Question 133

secular

Answer 133

ADJ. /世俗的；现世的；永久的/worldly; not pertaining to church matters; temporal. The church leaders decided not to interfere in secular matters.

Question 134

sedate

Answer 134

ADJ. /安静的；稳重的；低沉的/composed; grave. The parents were worried because they felt their son was too quiet and sedate.

Question 135

sedentary

Answer 135

ADJ. /久坐的；坐惯的/requiring sitting. Disliking the effect of her sedentary occupation on her figure, Stacy decided to work out at the gym every other day.

Question 136

sedition

Answer 136

N. /抵抗当局；反抗；暴动/resistance to authority; insubordination. His words, though not treasonous in themselves, were calcu¬lated to arouse thoughts of sedition.

Question 137

sedulous

Answer 137

ADJ. /勤奋的；勤勤恳恳的/diligent; hardworking. After weeks of patient and sedulous labor, we completed our detailed analysis of every published SAT examination.

Question 138

seedy

Answer 138

ADJ. /破烂不堪的；褴褛的；不合适的/run-down; decrepit; disreputable. I would rather stay in dormitory lodgings in a decent youth hostel than have a room of my own in a seedy downtown hotel.

Question 139

seemly

Answer 139

ADJ. /适宜的，合适的/proper; appropriate. Lady Bracknell did not think it was seemly for Ernest to lack a proper family: no baby abandoned on a doorstep could grow up to be a fit match for her daughter.

Question 140

seep

Answer 140

V. /渗出；渗漏/ooze; trickle. During the rainstorm, water seeped through the crack in the basement wall and damaged the floor boards. seepage, N.

Question 141

seethe

Answer 141

V. /扰乱的；沸腾/be disturbed; boil. The nation was seething with discontent as the noblemen continued their arrogant ways.

Question 142

seismic

Answer 142

ADJ. /地震的/pertaining to earthquakes. The Richter scale is a measurement of seismic disturbances.

Question 143

seminary

Answer 143

N. /神学院；学院；发祥地/school for training future ministers; academy for young women. Sure of his priestly vocation, Terrence planned to pursue his theological training at the local Roman Catholic seminary.

Question 144

sensual

Answer 144

ADJ. /感官的；肉欲的；感官论的/devoted to the pleasures of the senses; car-nal; voluptuous. I cannot understand what caused him to abandon his sensual way of life and become so ascetic.

Question 145

sententious

Answer 145

ADJ. /简洁的；警句式的，格言式的/terse; concise; aphoristic. After reading so many redundant speeches, I find his sententious style particularly pleasing.

Question 146

sentinel

Answer 146

N. /哨兵/sentry; lookout. Though camped in enemy terri¬tory, Bledsoe ignored the elementary precaution of posting sentinels around the encampment.

Question 147

sequester

Answer 147

V. /隐退；隔离/isolate; retire from public life; segregate; seclude. Banished from his kingdom, the wizard Prospero sequestered himself on a desert island. To prevent the jurors from hearing news broadcasts about the case, the judge decided to sequester the jury.

Question 148

serendipity

Answer 148

N. /有发现意外之财的运气/gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck. Many scien¬tific discoveries are a matter of serendipity. Newton was not sitting under a tree thinking about gravity when the apple dropped on his head.

Question 149

serenity

Answer 149

N. /平静/calmness; placidity. The sound of air raid sirens pierced the serenity of the quiet village of Pearl Harbor. serpentine ADJ. winding; twisting. The car swerved at every curve in the serpentine road.

Question 150

serrated

Answer 150

ADJ. /锯齿状的/having a sawtoothed edge. The beech tree is one of many plants that have serrated leaves.

Question 151

servile

Answer 151

ADJ. /奴隶的；奴性的/slavish; cringing. Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature.

Question 152

servitude

Answer 152

N. /奴隶身份；苦工/slavery; compulsory labor. Born a slave, Fred¬erick Douglass resented his life of servitude and plotted to escape to the North.

Question 153

sever

Answer 153

V. /切断/cut; separate. The released prisoner wanted to begin a new life and sever all connections with his criminal past. Dr. Guillotin invented a machine that could neatly sever an aristocratic head from its equally aristocratic body. Unfortu¬nately, he couldn't collect any severance pay. severance, N.

Question 154

severity

Answer 154

N. /严肃；严格；激烈/harshness; intensity; sternness; austerity. The severity of Jane's migraine attack was so great that she took to her bed for a week.

Question 155

shackle

Answer 155

V. /手铐；枷锁；脚镣/chain; fetter. The criminal's ankles were shack¬led to prevent his escape. also N.

Question 156

sham

Answer 156

V. /佯装；假的；赝品/pretend. He shammed sickness to get out of going to school. also N.

Question 157

shambles

Answer 157

N. /混乱的地方；肉铺/wreck; mess. After the hurricane, the Car¬olina coast was a shambles. After the New Year's Eve party, the apartment was a shambles.

Question 158

shard

Answer 158

N. /碎片（陶瓷的）/fragment, generally of pottery. The archaeologist assigned several students the task of reassembling earth¬enware vessels from the shards he had brought back from the expedition.

Question 159

sheaf

Answer 159

N. /捆；扎（秸秆）/bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together. The lawyer picked up a sheaf of papers as he rose to question the witness.

Question 160

shear

Answer 160

V. /剪；修剪/cut or clip (hair, fleece); strip of something. You may not care to cut a sheep's hair, but Sarah shears sheep for Little Bo Peep.

Question 161

sheathe

Answer 161

V. /插入鞘/place into a case. As soon as he recognized the approaching men, he sheathed his dagger and hailed them as friends.

Question 162

sheer

Answer 162

ADJ. /纯粹的,，绝对的；透明的；峻峭的；避开，躲避；偏航，避开/very thin or transparent; very steep; absolute. Wearing nothing but an almost sheer robe, Delilah draped herself against the sheer temple wall. Beholding her, Sam¬son was overcome by her sheer beauty. Then she sheared his hair.

Question 163

shimmer

Answer 163

V. /微光/glimmer intermittently. The moonlight shim¬mered on the water as the moon broke through the clouds for a moment. also N.

Question 164

shirk

Answer 164

V. /逃避，推卸；避免/avoid (responsibility, work, etc.); malinger. Brian has a strong sense of duty; he would never shirk any responsibility.

Question 165

shoddy

Answer 165

ADJ. /以次充好的；赝品/sham; not genuine; inferior. You will never get the public to buy such shoddy material.

Question 166

shrewd

Answer 166

ADJ. /精明；敏锐/clever; astute. A shrewd investor, he took clever advantage of the fluctuations of the stock market.

Question 167

shroud

Answer 167

V. /裹尸；隐藏/hide from view; wrap for burial. Fog shrouded Dracula's castle, hiding the ruined tower beneath sheets of mist.

Question 168

shun

Answer 168

V. /避免/keep away from. Cherishing his solitude, the recluse shunned the company of other human beings.

Question 169

shyster

Answer 169

N. /讼棍；政界的奸诈之徒/lawyer using questionable methods. On L.A. Law, Brackman is horrified to learn that his newly-discov¬ered half brother is nothing but a cheap shyster.

Question 170

sibling

Answer 170

N. /兄弟姐妹/brother or sister. We may not enjoy being sib¬lings, but we cannot forget that we still belong to the same family.

Question 171

simian

Answer 171

ADJ. /像猴的/monkeylike. Lemurs are nocturnal mammals and have many simian characteristics, although they are less intelligent than monkeys.

Question 172

simile

Answer 172

N. /明喻；比较/comparison of one thing with another, using the word like or as. "My love is like a red, red rose" is a simile.

Question 173

simper

Answer 173

V. /痴笑；傻笑/smirk; smile affectedly. Complimented on her appearance, Stella self-consciously simpered.

Question 174

Simplistic

Answer 174

ADJ. /过分单纯化的/oversimplified. Though Jack's solution dealt adequately with one aspect of the problem, it was simplistic in failing to consider various complications that might arise.

Question 175

simulate

Answer 175

V. /模仿；冒充/feign. He simulated insanity in order to avoid punishment for his crime.

Question 176

sinecure

Answer 176

N. /闲职，报纸茶水的工作/well-paid position with little responsibility. My job is no sinecure; I work long hours and have much responsibility.

Question 177

sinewy

Answer 177

ADJ. /结实；硬朗的/tough; strong and firm. The steak was too sinewy to chew.

Question 178

singular

Answer 178

ADJ. /奇的；独一无二的/unique; extraordinary; odd. Though the young man tried to understand Father William's singular behavior, he still found it odd that the old man incessantly stood on his head. singularity, N.

Question 179

sinister

Answer 179

ADJ. /邪恶的/evil. We must defeat the sinister forces that seek our downfall.

Question 180

sinuous

Answer 180

ADJ. /蜿蜒的；弯曲复杂的；不老实的/winding; bending in and out; not morally hon¬est. The snake moved in a sinuous manner.

Question 181

skeptic

Answer 181

N. /怀疑论者/doubter; person who suspends judgment until the evidence supporting a point of view has been exam¬ined. I am a skeptic about the new health plan; I want some proof that it can work. skepticism, N.

Question 182

skiff

Answer 182

N. /小船/small, light sailboat or rowboat. Tom dreamed of owning an ocean-going yacht but had to settle for a skiff he could sail in the bay.

Question 183

skimp

Answer 183

V. /节约的使用/provide scantily; live very economically. They were forced to skimp on necessities in order to make their limited supplies last the winter.

Question 184

skinflint

Answer 184

N. /守财奴；吝啬鬼/stingy person; miser. Scrooge was an ungener¬ous old skinflint until he reformed his ways and became a notable philanthropist.

Question 185

skirmish

Answer 185

N. /小规模战争；小打小闹/minor fight. Custer's troops expected they might run into a skirmish or two on maneuvers; they did not expect to face a major battle. alsoV.

Question 186

skulk

Answer 186

V. /偷懒；偷偷的移动/move furtively and secretly. He skulked through the less fashionable sections of the city in order to avoid meeting any of his former friends.

Question 187

slacken

Answer 187

V. /放松；放慢/slow up; loosen. As they passed the finish line, the runners slackened their pace.

Question 188

slag

Answer 188

N. /矿渣；炉渣；渣滓/residue from smelting metal; dross; waste matter. The blast furnace had a special opening at the bottom to allow the workers to remove the worthless slag.

Question 189

slake

Answer 189

V. /结束；平息；消除；伺候舒服/quench; sate. When we reached the oasis, we were able to slake our thirst.

Question 190

slander

Answer 190

N. /诽谤/defamation; utterance of false and malicious statements. Considering the negative comments politicians make about each other, it's a wonder that more of them aren't sued for slander. alsoV.

Question 191

slapdash

Answer 191

ADJ. /匆促的/haphazard; careless; sloppy. From the number of typos and misspellings I've found in it, it's clear that Mario proofread the report in a remarkably slapdash fashion.

Question 192

sleeper

Answer 192

N. /睡眠；卧铺；枕木；冬眠的动物/something originally of little value or importance that in time becomes very valuable. Unnoticed by the critics at its publication, the eventual Pulitzer Prize winner was a classic sleeper.

Question 193

sleight

Answer 193

N. /灵巧的/dexterity. The magician amazed the audience with his sleight of hand.

Question 194

slight

Answer 194

N. /怠慢；斥责；侮辱/insult to one's dignity; snub. Hypersensitive and ready to take offense at any discourtesy, Bertha was always on the lookout for real or imaginary slights. alsoV.

Question 195

slipshod

Answer 195

ADJ. /邋遢的；慢吞吞的；漫不经心的/untidy or slovenly; shabby. As a master craftsman, the carpenter prided himself on not doing slip¬shod work.

Question 196

slither

Answer 196

V. /滑动/slip or slide. During the recent ice storm, many people slithered down this hill as they walked to the station.

Question 197

slothful

Answer 197

ADJ. /懒的/lazy. Lying idly on the sofa while others worked, Reggie denied he was slothful: "I just supervise better lying down."

Question 198

slough

Answer 198

V. /脱落；蜕皮/cast off. Each spring, the snake sloughs off its skin.

Question 199

slovenly

Answer 199

ADJ. /邋遢的；漫不经心的/untidy; careless in work habits. Unshaven, sitting around in his bathrobe all afternoon, Gus didn't seem to care about the slovenly appearance he presented. The dark ring around the bathtub and the spider webs hanging from the beams proved what a slovenly housekeeper she was.

Question 200

sluggard

Answer 200

N. /懒人/lazy person. "You are a sluggard, a drone, a parasite," the angry father shouted at his lazy son.

Question 201

sluggish

Answer 201

ADJ. /行动迟缓的/Slow; lazy; lethargic. After two nights without sleep, she felt sluggish and incapable of exertion.

Question 202

slur

Answer 202

V. /模糊不清的说/speak indistinctly; mumble. When Sol has too much to drink, he starts to slur his words: "Washamatter? Cansh you undershtand what I shay?"

Question 203

slur

Answer 203

N. /诽谤；侮辱/insult to one's character or reputation; slander. Polls revealed that the front-runner's standing had been badly damaged by the slurs and innuendoes circulated by his opponent's staff. also V. (secondary meaning)

Question 204

smelt

Answer 204

V. /冶炼；精炼/melt or blend ores, changing their chemical com¬position. The furnaceman smelts tin with copper to create a special alloy used in making bells.

Question 205

smirk

Answer 205

N. /傻笑/conceited smile. Wipe that smirk off your face! alsoV.

Question 206

smolder

Answer 206

V. /闷烧；随时准备爆发/burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment. The rags smoldered for hours before they burst into flame.

Question 207

snicker

Answer 207

N. /窃笑/half-stifled laugh. The boy could not suppress a snicker when the teacher sat on the tack. alsoV.

Question 208

snivel

Answer 208

V. /流鼻涕；啜泣；鼻子一把泪一把/run at the nose; snuffle; whine. Don't you come sniveling to me complaining about your big brother. sobriety N. moderation (especially regarding indulgence in alcohol); seriousness. Neither falling-down drunks nor stand-up comics are noted for sobriety. sober,ADJ.

Question 209

sodden

Answer 209

ADJ. /湿透的/soaked; dull, as if from drink. He set his sod¬den overcoat near the radiator to dry.

Question 210

sojourn

Answer 210

N. /逗留/temporary stay. After his sojourn in Florida, he began to long for the colder climate of his native New Eng¬land home.

Question 211

solace

Answer 211

N. /安慰/comfort in trouble. I hope you will find solace in the thought that all of us share your loss.

Question 212

solder

Answer 212

V. /焊接/repair or make whole by using a metal alloy. The plumber fixed the leak in the pipes by soldering a couple of joints from which water had been oozing.

Question 213

solecism

Answer 213

N. /语法错误；谬误/construction that is flagrantly incorrect gram¬matically. I must give this paper a failing mark because it contains many solecisms.

Question 214

solemnity

Answer 214

N. /严肃的；一本正经的/seriousness; gravity. The minister was con¬cerned that nothing should disturb the solemnity of the mar¬riage service. solemn,ADJ.

Question 215

solicit

Answer 215

V. /恳求/request earnestly; seek. Knowing she needed to have a solid majority for the budget to pass, the mayor tele¬phoned all the members of the city council to solicit their votes.

Question 216

solicitous

Answer 216

ADJ. /担心的；关切的；期望的/worried; concerned. The employer was very solicitous about the health of her employees as replace¬ments were difficult to get.

Question 217

soliloquy

Answer 217

N. /自言自语；独白/talking to oneself. The soliloquy is a device used by the dramatist to reveal a character's innermost thoughts and emotions.

Question 218

solitude

Answer 218

N. /独身/state of being alone; seclusion. Much depends on how much you like your own company. What to one per¬son seems fearful isolation to another is blessed solitude.

Question 219

soluble

Answer 219

ADJ. /可溶解的；可解决的/able to be dissolved; able to be explained. Sugar is soluble in water; put a sugar cube in water and it will quickly dissolve.

Question 220

solvent

Answer 220

ADJ. /有偿付能力的/able to pay all debts. By dint of very frugal liv¬ing, he was finally able to become solvent and avoid bank¬ruptcy proceedings.

Question 221

somber

Answer 221

ADJ. /阴森的；昏暗的；抑郁的/gloomy; depressing; dark; drab. From the doctor's grim expression, I could tell he had somber news. Dull brown and charcoal gray are pretty somber colors; can't you wear something bright?

Question 222

somnambulist

Answer 222

N. /梦游症患者/sleepwalker. The most famous somnam¬bulist in literature is Lady Macbeth; her monologue in the sleepwalking scene is one of the highlights of Shake¬speare's play.

Question 223

somnolent

Answer 223

ADJ. /催眠的；半睡半醒的/half asleep. The heavy meal and the over¬heated room made us all somnolent and indifferent to the speaker.

Question 224

sonorous

Answer 224

ADJ. /醒目的/resonant. His sonorous voice resounded through the hall.

Question 225

sophisticated

Answer 225

ADJ. /世故的；复杂的/worldly-wise and urbane; complex. When Sophie makes wisecracks, she thinks she sounds sophisticated, but instead she sounds sophomoric. The new IBM laptop with the butterfly keyboard and the built-in quadspeed FAX modem is a pretty sophisticated machine.

Question 226

sophistry

Answer 226

N. /似真实假的/seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning. Instead of advancing valid arguments, he tried to over¬whelm his audience with a flood of sophistries.

Question 227

sophomoric

Answer 227

ADJ. /一知半解的；不成熟的/immature; half-baked, like a sophomore. Even if you're only a freshman, it's no compliment to be told your humor is sophomoric. The humor in Dumb and Dumber is sophomoric at best.

Question 228

soporific

Answer 228

ADJ. /催眠的/sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness. Pro¬fessor Pringle's lectures were so soporific that even he fell asleep in class. also N.

Question 229

sordid

Answer 229

ADJ. /肮脏；卑鄙/filthy; base; vile. The social worker was angered by the sordid housing provided for the homeless.

Question 230

sovereign

Answer 230

ADJ. /君主的；至高无上的/efficacious; supreme or paramount; self¬governing. Professor Pennywhistle claimed his panacea was a sovereign cure for all chronic complaints. In medi¬cine the sovereign task of the doctor is to do no harm. Rebelling against the mother country, the onetime colony now proclaimed itself a sovereign state. also N.

Question 231

spangle

Answer 231

N. /衣服上亮晶晶的小金属饰件/small metallic piece sewn to clothing for orna-mentation. The thousands of spangles on her dress sparkled in the glare of the stage lights.

Question 232

sparse

Answer 232

ADJ. /稀少的；稀疏的/not thick; thinly scattered; scanty. No matter how carefully Albert combed his hair to make it look as full as possible, it still looked sparse.

Question 233

spartan

Answer 233

ADJ. /刚毅的；朴素的；纪律严格的；斯巴达的/avoiding luxury and comfort; sternly disci¬plined. Looking over the bare, unheated room, with its hard cot, he wondered what he was doing in such spartan quar¬ters. Only his spartan sense of duty kept him at his post.

Question 234

spasmodic

Answer 234

ADJ. /断断续续的；间歇的/fitful; periodic. The spasmodic coughing in the auditorium annoyed the performers.

Question 235

spat

Answer 235

N. /争论；口角；扇巴掌/squabble; minor dispute. What had started out as a mere spat escalated into a full-blown argument.

Question 236

spate

Answer 236

N. /爆发；大洪水；一大群的/sudden flood or strong outburst; a large number or amount. After the spate of angry words that came pour¬ing out of him, Mary was sure they would never be recon¬ciled.

Question 237

spatial

Answer 237

ADJ. /空间的/relating to space. NASA is engaged in an ongoing program of spatial exploration. When Jay says he's studying spatial relations, that doesn't mean he has rela¬tives in outer space.

Question 238

spatula

Answer 238

N. /压舌板；抹刀；批灰刀/broad-bladed instrument used for spreading or mixing. The manufacturers of this frying pan recommend the use of a rubber spatula to avoid scratching the specially treated surface.

Question 239

spawn

Answer 239

V. /孵化；下蛋/lay eggs. Fish ladders had to be built in the dams to assist the salmon returning to spawn in their native streams. also N.

Question 240

specious

Answer 240

ADJ. /似是而非的/seemingly reasonable but incorrect; mis¬leading (often intentionally). To claim that, because houses and birds both have wings, both can fly, is extremely spe¬cious reasoning.

Question 241

spectrum

Answer 241

N. /光谱/colored band produced when beam of light passes through a prism. The visible portion of the spectrum includes red at one end and violet at the other.

Question 242

spendthrift

Answer 242

N. /挥霍的人/someone who wastes money. Easy access to credit encourages people to turn into spendthrifts who shop till they drop.

Question 243

sphinx-like

Answer 243

ADJ. /谜的/enigmatic; mysterious. The Mona Lisa's sphinx-like expression has intrigued and mystified art lovers for centuries.

Question 244

splice

Answer 244

V. /绑定的；联合的/fasten together; unite. Before you splice two strips of tape together, be sure to line them up evenly. also N.

Question 245

spontaneity

Answer 245

N. /自发的；自然的；无预谋的/lack of premeditation; naturalness; freedom from constraint. When Anne and Amy met, Amy impulsively hugged her new colleague, but Anne drew back, unpre¬pared for such spontaneity. The cast over-rehearsed the play so much that the eventual performance lacked any spontaneity. spontaneous,ADJ.

Question 246

sporadic

Answer 246

ADJ. /零星的/occurring irregularly. Although you can still hear sporadic outbursts of laughter and singing outside, the big Halloween parade has passed; the party's over till next year.

Question 247

sportive

Answer 247

ADJ. /嬉戏的；玩闹的/playful. Such a sportive attitude is surprising in a person as serious as you usually are.

Question 248

spry

Answer 248

ADJ. /充满生气的；活泼的；敏捷的/vigorously active; nimble. She was eighty years old, yet still spry and alert.

Question 249

spurious

Answer 249

ADJ. /伪造的，欺骗的/false; counterfeit; forged; illogical. The antique dealer hero of Jonathan Gash's mystery novels gives the reader tips on how to tell spurious antiques from the real thing. Natasha's claim to be the lost heir of the Romanoffs was spurious: the only thing Russian about her was the vodka she drank!

Question 250

spurn

Answer 250

V. /放弃；拒绝/reject; scorn. The heroine spurned the villain's advances.

Question 251

squabble

Answer 251

N. /争吵/minor quarrel; bickering. Children invariably get involved in petty squabbles; wise parents know when to interfere and when to let the children work things out on their own.

Question 252

squalor

Answer 252

N. /肮脏；悲惨；贫穷/filth; degradation; dirty, neglected state. Rusted, broken-down cars in its yard, trash piled up on the porch, tar paper peeling from the roof, the shack was the picture of squalor. squalid,ADJ.

Question 253

squander

Answer 253

V. /浪费/waste. If you squander your allowance on candy and comic books, you won't have any money left to buy the new box of crayons you want.

Question 254

squat

Answer 254

ADJ. /矮壮的；又短又厚的；蹲着的/stocky; short and thick. Tolkien's hobbits are somewhat squat, sturdy little creatures, fond of good ale, good music, and good mushrooms.

Question 255

staccato

Answer 255

ADJ. /断奏；断唱/played in an abrupt manner; marked by abrupt sharp sound. His staccato speech reminded one of the sound of a machine gun.

Question 256

stagnant

Answer 256

ADJ. /静止的；单调的/motionless; stale; dull. Mosquitoes com¬monly breed in ponds of stagnant water. Mike's career was stagnant; it wasn't going anywhere, and neither was he! stagnate,V.

Question 257

staid

Answer 257

ADJ. /沉静的；安静的/sober; sedate. Her conduct during the funeral ceremony was staid and solemn.

Question 258

stalemate

Answer 258

N. /僵局/deadlock. Negotiations between the union and the employers have reached a stalemate; neither side is willing to budge from previously stated positions.

Question 259

stalwart

Answer 259

ADJ. /坚定的；强壮的/strong, brawny; steadfast. His consistent support of the party has proved that he is a stalwart and loyal member. also N.

Question 260

stamina

Answer 260

N. /毅力；意志力/strength; staying power. I doubt that she has the stamina to run the full distance of the marathon race.

Question 261

stanch

Answer 261

V. /止血；血流变检测/check flow of blood. It is imperative that we stanch the gushing wound before we attend to the other injuries.

Question 262

stanza

Answer 262

N. /节；段落（诗的）；盘（棋的）/division of a poem. Do you know the last stanza of "The Star-Spangled Banner"?

Question 263

static

Answer 263

ADJ. /静态的/unchanging; lacking development. Why watch chess on TV? I like watching a game with action, not some¬thing static where nothing seems to be going on.

Question 264

statute

Answer 264

N. /法令；条例/law enacted by the legislature. The statute of limitations sets the limits on how long you have to take legal action in specific cases.

Question 265

steadfast

Answer 265

ADJ. /坚定的；不渝的；忠诚的/loyal; unswerving. Penelope was steadfast in her affections, faithfully waiting for Ulysses to return from his wanderings.

Question 266

stealth

Answer 266

N. /隐秘；隐藏；隐蔽行动/slyness; sneakiness; secretiveness. Fearing detection by the sentries on duty, the scout inched his way toward the enemy camp with great stealth.

Question 267

steep

Answer 267

V. /浸泡，弄湿；陡坡；悬崖/soak; saturate. Be sure to steep the fabric in the dyebath for the full time prescribed.

Question 268

stellar

Answer 268

ADJ. /星体的；恒星的/pertaining to the stars. He was the stellar attraction of the entire performance.

Question 269

stem

Answer 269

V. /制止流出/check the flow. The paramedic used a tourniquet to stem the bleeding from the slashed artery.

Question 270

stem from

Answer 270

V. /起因于/arise from. Milton's problems in school stemmed from his poor study habits.

Question 271

stereotype

Answer 271

N. /老套；一成不变；铅版/fixed and unvarying representation; stan¬dardized mental picture, often reflecting prejudice. Critics object to the character of Jim in The Adventures of Huckle¬berry Finn because he seems to reflect the stereotype of the happy, ignorant slave.

Question 272

stifle

Answer 272

V. /使窒息；扑灭/suppress; extinguish; inhibit. Halfway through the boring lecture, Laura gave up trying to stifle her yawns.

Question 273

stigma

Answer 273

N. /耻辱；耻辱的标记；柱头；气门/token of disgrace; brand. I do not attach any stigma to the fact that you were accused of this crime; the fact that you were acquitted clears you completely.

Question 274

stigmatize

Answer 274

V. /打烙印；污蔑/brand; mark as wicked. I do not want to stig¬matize this young offender for life by sending her to prison.

Question 275

stilted

Answer 275

ADJ. /夸大的；充气的；虚胖的；踩高跷的/bombastic; inflated. His stilted rhetoric did not impress the college audience; they were immune to bom¬bastic utterances.

Question 276

stint

Answer 276

N. /供应；分配；限量分配/supply; allotted amount; assigned portion of work. He performed his daily stint cheerfully and willingly. alsoV.

Question 277

stint

Answer 277

V. /紧缩，节省/be thrifty; set limits. "Spare no expense," the bride's father said, refusing to stint on the wedding arrange¬ments.

Question 278

stipend

Answer 278

N. /薪金；津贴/pay for services. There is a nominal stipend for this position.

Question 279

stipulate

Answer 279

V. /规定；明细化/make express conditions; specify. Before agreeing to reduce American military forces in Europe, the president stipulated that NATO inspection teams be allowed to inspect Soviet bases.

Question 280

stodgy

Answer 280

ADJ. /乏味的；保守的/stuffy; boringly conservative. For a young per¬son, Winston seems remarkably stodgy: you'd expect someone his age to show a little more life.

Question 281

Stoic

Answer 281

ADJ. impassive; unmoved by joy or grief. I wasn't par¬ticularly stoic when I had my flu shot; I squealed like a stuck pig. also N.

Question 282

stoke

Answer 282

V. /填饱；司炉/stir up a fire; feed plentifully. As a Scout Marisa learned how to light a fire, how to stoke it if it started to die down, and how to extinguish it completely.

Question 283

stolid

Answer 283

ADJ. /乏味的；单调的；冷漠的/dull; impassive. The earthquake shattered Stu-art's usual stolid demeanor; trembling, he crouched on the no longer stable ground.

Question 284

stratagem

Answer 284

N. /计谋；战略/deceptive scheme. We saw through his clever stratagem.

Question 285

stratify

Answer 285

V. /分门别类；分类；分层/divide into classes; be arranged into strata. As the economic gap between the rich and the poor increased, Roman society grew increasingly stratified.

Question 286

stratum

Answer 286

N. /地层；社会阶层/layer of earth's surface; layer of society. Unless we alleviate conditions in the lowest stratum of our society, we may expect grumbling and revolt.

Question 287

strew

Answer 287

V. /散开；随意散开；散播/spread randomly; sprinkle; scatter. Preceding the bride to the altar, the flower girl will strew rose petals along the aisle.

Question 288

striated

Answer 288

ADJ. /有细条纹的/marked with parallel bands; grooved. The glacier left many striated rocks. striate,V.

Question 289

stricture

Answer 289

N. /责难；非难；限制/restriction; adverse criticism. Huck regularly disobeyed Miss Watson's rules and strictures upon his behavior: he wouldn't wear shoes, no matter what she said.

Question 290

strident

Answer 290

ADJ. /刺耳的；尖锐的；坚持不懈的/loud and harsh; insistent. Whenever Sue became angry, she tried not to raise her voice; she had no desire to appear strident.

Question 291

stringent

Answer 291

ADJ. /严厉的；迫切的/binding; rigid. I think these regulations are too stringent.

Question 292

strut

Answer 292

N. /大摇大摆；高视阔步/pompous walk; swagger. Looking at his self¬important strut as he swaggered about the parade ground, I could tell Colonel Blimp thought highly of himself. alsoV.

Question 293

strut

Answer 293

N. /支柱/supporting bar. The engineer calculated that the strut supporting the rafter needed to be reinforced. (sec¬ondary meaning)

Question 294

studied

Answer 294

ADJ. /有计划的；故意的；有想法的/not spontaneous; deliberate; thoughtful. Given Jill's previous slights, Jack felt that the omission of his name from the guest list was a studied insult.

Question 295

stultify

Answer 295

V. /使徒劳；使显得愚笨；拆台，办难堪/cause to appear or become stupid or inconsis¬tent; frustrate or hinder. His long hours in the blacking fac¬tory left young Dickens numb and incurious, as if the menial labor had stultified his brain.

Question 296

stupefy

Answer 296

V. /使麻木；使大吃一惊/make numb; stun; amaze. Disapproving of drugs in general, Laura refused to take sleeping pills or any other medicine that might stupefy her. stupefaction, N.

Question 297

stupor

Answer 297

N. /冷漠；漠不关心/state of apathy; daze; lack of awareness. In his stupor, the addict was unaware of the events taking place around him.

Question 298

stymie

Answer 298

V. /从中作梗；桩子；障碍物/present an obstacle; stump. The detective was stymied by the contradictory evidence in the robbery inves¬tigation. also N.

Question 299

suavity

Answer 299

N. /柔和；愉快；温和/banity; polish. The elegant actor is particularly good in roles that require suavity and sophistication.

Question 300

subdued

Answer 300

ADJ. /屈服的；柔和的；减弱的/less intense; quieter. Bob liked the subdued lighting at the restaurant because he thought it was roman¬tic. I just thought it was dimly lit.

Question 301

subjective

Answer 301

ADJ. /主观的；个人的/occurring or taking place within the subject; unreal. Your analysis is highly subjective; you have permit¬ted your emotions and your opinions to color your thinking.

Question 302

subjugate

Answer 302

V. /征服/conquer; bring under control. It is not our aim to subjugate our foe; we are interested only in establishing peaceful relations.

Question 303

sublime

Answer 303

ADJ. /庄严的；崇高的；壮观的/exalted or noble and uplifting; utter. Lucy was in awe of Desi's sublime musicianship, while he was in awe of her sublime naiveté.

Question 304

subliminal

Answer 304

ADJ. /低于极限的；下意识的/below the threshold. We may not be aware of the subliminal influences that affect our thinking.

Question 305

submissive

Answer 305

ADJ. /屈服的；胆怯的/yielding; timid. When he refused to permit Elizabeth to marry her poet, Mr. Barrett expected her to be properly submissive; instead, she eloped!

Question 306

subordinate

Answer 306

ADJ. /低级的；下级的；次要的/occupying a lower rank; inferior; submis¬sive. Bishop Proudie's wife expected all the subordinate clergy to behave with great deference to the wife of their superior.

Question 307

suborn

Answer 307

V. /教唆/persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury). In The Godfather, the mobsters used bribery and threats to suborn the witnesses against Don Michael Cor¬leone.

Question 308

subpoena

Answer 308

N. /传票/writ summoning a witness to appear. The prosecutor's office was ready to serve a subpoena on the reluctant witness. alsoV.

Question 309

subsequent

Answer 309

ADJ. /后来的；接下来的/following; later. In subsequent lessons, we shall take up more difficult problems.

Question 310

subservient

Answer 310

ADJ. /奴隶似的；奴性的/behaving like a slave; servile; obse¬quious. He was proud and dignified; he refused to be sub¬servient to anyone.

Question 311

subside

Answer 311

V. /下沉；平息；减退/settle down; descend; grow quiet. The doctor assured us that the fever would eventually subside.

Question 312

subsidiary

Answer 312

ADJ. /次要的；辅助的/subordinate; secondary. This information may be used as subsidiary evidence but is not sufficient by itself to prove your argument. also N.

Question 313

subsidy

Answer 313

N. /政府的补助/direct financial aid by government, etc. Without this subsidy, American ship operators would not be able to compete in world markets.

Question 314

subsistence

Answer 314

N. /存在；生存/existence; means of support; livelihood. In these days of inflated prices, my salary provides a mere subsistence.

Question 315

substantial

Answer 315

ADJ. /坚实的；充实的/ample; solid; in essentials. The generous scholarship represented a substantial sum of money.

Question 316

substantiate

Answer 316

V. /证实；验证/establish by evidence; verify; support. These endorsements from satisfied customers substantiate our claim that Barron's How to Prepare for the SAT I is the best SAT-prep book on the market.

Question 317

substantive

Answer 317

ADJ. /真实的；有实质的；大量的/essential; pertaining to the substance. Although the delegates were aware of the importance of the problem, they could not agree on the substantive issues.

Question 318

subterfuge

Answer 318

N. /借口；托辞/pretense; evasion. As soon as we realized that you had won our support by a subterfuge, we withdrew our endorsement of your candidacy.

Question 319

subtlety

Answer 319

N. /精明；稀薄；微妙/perceptiveness; ingenuity; delicacy. Never obvious, she expressed herself with such subtlety that her remarks went right over the heads of most of her audience. subtle,ADJ.

Question 320

subversive

Answer 320

ADJ. /颠覆性的；破坏性的/tending to overthrow; destructive. At first glance, the notion that styrofoam cups may actually be more ecologically sound than paper cups strikes most envi¬ronmentalists as subversive.

Question 321

succinct

Answer 321

ADJ. /简洁的；紧身的/brief; terse; compact. Don't bore your audi ence with excess verbiage: be succinct.

Question 322

succor

Answer 322

V. /救援；援助/aid; assist; comfort. If you believe that con man has come here to succor you in your hour of need, you're an even bigger sucker than I thought. also N.

Question 323

succulent

Answer 323

ADJ. /多汁的/juicy; full of richness. To some people, Florida citrus fruits are more succulent than those from Cali¬fornia. also N.

Question 324

succumb

Answer 324

V. /屈服；屈从；死/yield; give in; die. I succumb to temptation whenever I see chocolate.

Question 325

suffragist

Answer 325

N. /扩大参政权；扩大妇女参政权/advocate of voting rights (for women). In recognition of her efforts to win the vote for women, Con¬gress authorized coining a silver dollar honoring the suf¬fragistSusan B. Anthony

Question 326

sully

Answer 326

V. /弄脏；玷污/tarnish; soil. He felt that it was beneath his dignity to sully his hands in such menial labor.

Question 327

sultry

Answer 327

ADJ. /闷热的，酷热的；放荡的；粗暴的/sweltering. He could not adjust himself to the sultryclimate of the tropics.

Question 328

summation

Answer 328

N. /结算；累计；总结/act of finding the total; summary. In his summation, the lawyer emphasized the testimony given by the two witnesses.

Question 329

summit

Answer 329

N. /巅峰；顶点/utmost height or pinnacle; highest point (of a mountain, etc.) The summit of the amateur mountain climber's aspirations was someday to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Question 330

sumptuous

Answer 330

ADJ. /奢侈的；华丽的/lavish; rich. I cannot recall when I have had such a sumptuous Thanksgiving feast.

Question 331

sunder

Answer 331

V. /分裂/separate; part. Northern and southern Ireland are politically and religiously sundered.

Question 332

supercilious

Answer 332

ADJ. /自大的；傲慢的/arrogant; condescending; patronizing. The supercilious headwaiter sneered at customers whom he thought did not fit in at a restaurant catering to an ultra¬fashionable crowd.

Question 333

superficial

Answer 333

ADJ. /肤浅的；浅薄的/trivial; shallow. Since your report gave only a superficial analysis of the problem, I cannot give you more than a passing grade.

Question 334

superfluous

Answer 334

ADJ. /不必要的；多余的/unnecessary; excessive; overabundant. Betsy lacked the heart to tell June that the wedding present she brought was superfluous; she and Bob had already received five toasters. Please try not to include so many superfluous details in your report; just give me the facts. superfluity, N.

Question 335

superimpose

Answer 335

V. /添加/place over something else. Your attempt to superimpose another agency in this field will merely increase the bureaucratic nature of our government.

Question 336

supersede

Answer 336

V. /取代；推迟/cause to be set aside; replace; make obso¬lete. The new bulk mailing postal regulation supersedes the old one. If you continue to follow the old regulation, your bulk mailing will be returned to you.

Question 337

supplant

Answer 337

V. /篡位；取代/replace; usurp. Bolingbroke, later to be known as King Henry IV, fought to supplant his cousin, Richard III, as King of England.

Question 338

supple

Answer 338

ADJ. /柔顺的；顺从的；柔韧的/flexible; pliant. Years of yoga exercises made Grace's body supple.

Question 339

supplicate

Answer 339

V. /恳求；祈祷/petition humbly; pray to grant a favor. We supplicate Your Majesty to grant him amnesty.

Question 340

supposition

Answer 340

N. /假定；假想/hypothesis; the act of supposing. I based my decision to confide in him on the supposition that he would be discreet. suppose,V.

Question 341

suppress

Answer 341

V. /镇压；抑制；查禁/stifle; overwhelm; subdue; inhibit. Too polite to laugh in anyone's face, Roy did his best to suppress his amusement at Ed's inane remark.

Question 342

surfeit

Answer 342

V. /饮食过度；恶心/satiate; stuff; indulge to excess in anything. Every Thanksgiving we are surfeited with an overabun¬dance of holiday treats. also N.

Question 343

surly

Answer 343

ADJ. /粗暴的；阴沉的；板着脸的；无礼的/rude; cross. Because of his surly attitude, many people avoided his company.

Question 344

surmise

Answer 344

V. /猜测/guess. I surmise that he will be late for this meeting. also N.

Question 345

surmount

Answer 345

V. /克服/overcome. Could Helen Keller, blind and deaf since childhood, surmount her physical disabilities and lead a productive life?

Question 346

surpass

Answer 346

V. /超越/exceed. Her SAT I scores surpassed our expectations.

Question 347

surreptitious

Answer 347

ADJ. /暗中的；秘密的/secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden. Hoping to discover where his mom had hidden the Christmas pre¬sents, Timmy took a surreptitious peek into the master bed¬room closet.

Question 348

surrogate

Answer 348

N. /代理；代替/substitute. For a fatherless child, a male teacher may become a father surrogate.

Question 349

surveillance

Answer 349

N. /监视；监督/watching; guarding. The FBI kept the house under constant surveillance in the hope of capturing all the criminals at one time,

Question 350

susceptible

Answer 350

ADJ. /易受影响的；易感动的；易患病的/impressionable; easily influenced; having little resistance, as to a disease; receptive to. Said the patent medicine man to his very susceptible customer: "Buy this new miracle drug, and you will no longer be sus¬ceptible to the common cold."

Question 351

sustain

Answer 351

V. /支撑；延续/experience; support; nourish. He sustained such a severe injury that the doctors feared he would be unable to work to sustain his growing family.

Question 352

sustenance

Answer 352

N. /食物；生计/means of support, food, nourishment. In the tropics, the natives find sustenance easy to obtain, due to all the fruit trees.

Question 353

suture

Answer 353

N. /缝合；缝合处/stitches sewn to hold the cut edges of a wound or incision; material used in sewing. We will remove the sutures as soon as the wound heals. alsoV.

Question 354

swagger

Answer 354

V. /大摇大摆；自大/behave arrogantly or pompously; strut or walk proudly. The conquering hero didn't simply stride down the street; he swaggered. also N.

Question 355

swarm

Answer 355

N. /一大群；挤满，占满，蜂拥/dense moving crowd; large group of honey¬bees. At the height of the city hall scandals, a constant swarm of reporters followed the mayor everywhere. alsoV.

Question 356

swarthy

Answer 356

ADJ. /暗的；有雾的/dark; dusky. Despite the stereotypes, not all Italians are swarthy, many are fair and blond.

Question 357

swathe

Answer 357

V. /包装物；绷带/wrap around; bandage. When I visited him in the hospital, I found him swathed in bandages.

Question 358

swelter

Answer 358

V. /闷热；中暑/be oppressed by heat. I am going to buy an air conditioning unit for my apartment as I do not intend to swelter through another hot and humid summer.

Question 359

swerve

Answer 359

V. /转向；突然转向/deviate; turn aside sharply. The car swerved wildly as the driver struggled to regain control of the wheel.

Question 360

swill

Answer 360

V. /痛饮/drink greedily. Singing "Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum," Long John Silver and his fellow pirates swilled their grog.

Question 361

swindler

Answer 361

N. /骗子/cheat. She was gullible and trusting, an easy victim for the first swindler who came along.

Question 362

sybarite

Answer 362

N. /纵情逸乐之徒/lover of luxury. Rich people are not always sybarites; some of them have little taste for a life of luxury.

Question 363

sycophant

Answer 363

N. /马屁精；阿谀奉承者/servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man. Fed up with the toadies and flunkies who made up his entourage, the star cried, "Get out, all of you! I'm sick of sycophants!" sycophancy, N.

Question 364

symbiosis

Answer 364

N. /共生现象/interdependent relationship (between groups, species), often mutually beneficial. Both the croco¬dile bird and the crocodile derive benefit from their symbio¬sis: pecking away at food particles embedded in the crocodile's teeth, the bird receives nourishment; the croco¬dile, meanwhile, receives proper dental hygiene. symbiotic,ADJ.

Question 365

symmetry

Answer 365

N. /对称；匀称/arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained; congruity. Something lopsided by definition lacks symmetry.

Question 366

synoptic

Answer 366

ADJ. /概要的/providing a general overview; summary. The professor turned to the latest issue of Dissertation Abstracts for a synoptic account of what was new in the field. synop¬SiS, N.

Question 367

synthesis

Answer 367

N. /合成/combining parts into a whole. Now that we have succeeded in isolating this drug, our next problem is to plan its synthesis in the laboratory. synthesize,V.

Question 368

table

Answer 368

V. /搁置/set aside a resolution or proposal for future con¬sideration. Because we seem unable to agree on this issue at the moment, let us table the motion for now and come back to it at a later date.

Question 369

tacit

Answer 369

ADJ. /默许的；会意的/understood; not put into words. We have a tacit agreement based on only a handshake.

Question 370

taciturn

Answer 370

ADJ. /沉默寡言的/habitually silent; talking little. The stereotypi¬cal cowboy is a taciturn soul, answering lengthy questions with a "Yep" or "Nope."

Question 371

tactile

Answer 371

ADJ. /触觉的/pertaining to the organs or sense of touch. His callused hands had lost their tactile sensitivity.

Question 372

taint

Answer 372

V. /污染，感染；污点/contaminate; cause to lose purity; modify with a trace of something bad. One speck of dirt on your utensils may contain enough germs to taint an entire batch of preserves.

Question 373

talisman

Answer 373

N. /护身符；避邪物/charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune. Joe believed the carved pendant he found in Vietnam served him as a talisman and brought him safely through the war.

Question 374

talon

Answer 374

N. /鸟爪/claw of bird. The falconer wore a leather gauntlet to avoid being clawed by the hawk's talons.

Question 375

tangential

Answer 375

ADJ. /外围的；切线的/peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing. Despite Clark's attempts to distract her with tan¬gential remarks, Lois kept on coming back to her main question: why couldn't he come out to dinner with Super¬man and her?

Question 376

tangible

Answer 376

ADJ. /可触摸的；真实的/able to be touched; real; palpable. Although Tom did not own a house, he had several tangible assets-a car, a television, a PC-that he could sell if he needed cash.

Question 377

tanner

Answer 377

N. /皮革工人；6便士/person who turns animal hides into leather. Using a solution of tanbark, the tannertreated the cowhide, transforming it into supple leather.

Question 378

tantalize

Answer 378

V. /逗弄；使其干着急/tease; torture with disappointment. Tom loved to tantalize his younger brother with candy; he knew the boy was forbidden to have it.

Question 379

tantamount

Answer 379

ADJ. /同等的/equivalent in effect or value. Though Rudy claimed his wife was off visiting friends, his shriek of horror when she walked into the room was tantamount to a confession that he believed she was dead.

Question 380

tantrum

Answer 380

N. /发脾气；暴怒/fit of petulance; caprice. The child learned that he could have almost anything if he had a tantrum.

Question 381

tarantula

Answer 381

N. /毒蜘蛛/venomous spider. We need an antitoxin to counteract the bite of the tarantula.

Question 382

tarry

Answer 382

V. /等候；逗留；混日子/delay; dawdle. We can't tarry if we want to get to the airport on time.

Question 383

taut

Answer 383

ADJ. /紧张的；整洁的/tight; ready. The captain maintained that he ran a taut ship.

Question 384

tautological

Answer 384

ADJ. /同义反复的/needlessly repetitious. In the sentence "It was visible to the eye, " the phrase "to the eye" is tautological.

Question 385

tautology

Answer 385

N. /同义反复/unnecessary repetition. "Joyful happiness" is an illustration of tautology.

Question 386

tawdry

Answer 386

ADJ. /俗丽的；便宜且华而不实/cheap and gaudy. He won a few tawdry trin¬kets in Coney Island.

Question 387

tedious

Answer 387

ADJ. /令人厌倦的/boring; tiring. The repetitious nature of work on the assembly line made Martin's job very tedious. tedium, N.

Question 388

temerity

Answer 388

N. /鲁莽的/boldness; rashness. Do you have the temerity to argue with me?

Question 389

temper

Answer 389

V. /中和；回火；调剂；锻炼/moderate; tone down or restrain; toughen (steel). Not even her supervisor's grumpiness could temper Nancy's enthusiasm for her new job.

Question 390

temperament

Answer 390

N. /气质；性情/characteristic frame of mind; disposition; emotional excess. Although the twins look alike, they differ markedly in temperament: Todd is calm, but Rod is excitable.

Question 391

temperate

Answer 391

ADJ. /节制的；自我控制的/restrained; self-controlled; moderate in respect to temperature. Try to be temperate in your eating this holiday season; if you control your appetite, you won't gain too much weight.

Question 392

tempestuous

Answer 392

ADJ. /有暴风雨的；暴乱的/stormy; impassioned; violent. Racket¬throwing tennis star John McEnroe was famed for his dis¬plays of tempestuous temperament.

Question 393

tempo

Answer 393

N. /节奏，乐曲的速度/speed of music. I find the band's tempo too slow for such a lively dance.

Question 394

temporal

Answer 394

ADJ. /暂时的/not lasting forever; limited by time; secular. At onetime in our history, temporal rulers assumed that they had been given their thrones by divine right.

Question 395

temporize

Answer 395

V. /拖延时间；见风使舵/avoid commiting oneself; gain time. I cannot permit you to temporize any longer; I must have a definite answer today.

Question 396

tenacious

Answer 396

ADJ. /顽强的/holding fast. I had to struggle to break his tenacious hold on my arm.

Question 397

tenacity

Answer 397

N. /坚韧/firmness; persistence. Jean Valjean could not believe the tenacity of Inspector Javert. Here all Valjean had done was to steal a loaf of bread, and the inspector had pursued him doggedly for twenty years!

Question 398

tendentious

Answer 398

ADJ. /偏见的；有目标的；预计好的/having an aim; biased; designed to fur¬ther a cause. The editorials in this periodical are tenden¬tious rather than truth-seeking.

Question 399

tender

Answer 399

V. /提供；扩充/offer; extend. Although no formal charges had been made against him, in the wake of the recent scandal the mayor felt he should tender his resignation.

Question 400

tenet

Answer 400

N. /原则；信条/doctrine; dogma. The agnostic did not accept the tenets of their faith.

Question 401

tensile

Answer 401

ADJ. /可伸展的；可拉长的/capable of being stretched. Mountain climbers must know the tensile strength of their ropes. tentative ADJ. hesitant; not fully worked out or developed; experimental; not definite or positive. Unsure of his wel¬come at the Christmas party, Scrooge took a tentative step into his nephew's drawing room.

Question 402

tenuous

Answer 402

ADJ. /纤细的/thin; rare; slim. The allegiance of our allies is held by rather tenuous ties.

Question 403

tenure

Answer 403

N. /任期；（土地的）使用年限/holding of an office; time during which such an office is held. He has permanent tenure in this position and cannot be fired.

Question 404

tepid

Answer 404

ADJ. /冷淡的；微热的/lukewarm. During the summer, I like to take a tepid bath, not a hot one.

Question 405

termination

Answer 405

N. /结束/end. Though the time for termination of the project was near, we still had a lot of work to finish before we shut up shop. terminate,V.

Question 406

terminology

Answer 406

N. /术语学/terms used in a science or art. The special terminology developed by some authorities in the field has done more to confuse the layman than to enlighten him. terminus N. last stop of railroad. After we reached the rail¬road terminus, we continued our journey into the wilderness on saddle horses.

Question 407

terrestrial

Answer 407

ADJ. /地的；地球的/earthly (as opposed to celestial); pertaining to the land. In many science fiction films, alien invaders from outer space plan to destroy all terrestrial life.

Question 408

terse

Answer 408

ADJ. /简洁；扼要的/concise; abrupt; pithy. There is a fine line between speech that is terse and to the point and speech that is too abrupt.

Question 409

testy

Answer 409

ADJ. /易怒的/irritable; short-tempered. My advice is to avoid discussing this problem with him today as he is rather testy and may shout at you.

Question 410

tether

Answer 410

V. /用绳子绑；范围/tie with a rope. Before we went to sleep, we teth¬ered the horses to prevent their wandering off during the night.

Question 411

thematic

Answer 411

ADJ. /主题的；主题相关的/relating to a unifying motif or idea. Those who think of Moby Dick as a simple adventure story about whaling miss its underlying thematic import.

Question 412

theocracy

Answer 412

N. /神权政治/government run by religious leaders. Though some Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower favored the establish¬ment of a theocracy in New England, many of their fellow voyagers preferred a nonreligious form of government.

Question 413

theoretical

Answer 413

ADJ. /理论的/not practical or applied; hypothetical. Bob was better at applied engineering and computer program¬ming than he was at theoretical physics and math. While I can still think of some theoretical objections to your plan, you've convinced me of its basic soundness.

Question 414

therapeutic

Answer 414

ADJ. /治疗的；治疗学的/curative. Now better known for its race¬track, Saratoga Springs first gained attention for the thera¬peutic qualities of its famous "healing waters." therapy, N.

Question 415

thermal

Answer 415

ADJ. /热的；热学的/pertaining to heat. The natives discovered that the hot springs made excellent thermal baths and began to develop their community as a health resort. also N.

Question 416

thespian

Answer 416

ADJ. /戏剧的/pertaining to drama. Her success in the school play convinced her she was destined for a thespian career. also N.

Question 417

threadbare

Answer 417

ADJ. /褴褛的；破烂不堪的/worn through till the threads show; shabby and poor. The poor adjunct professor hid the threadbare spots on his jacket by sewing leather patches on his sleeves.

Question 418

thrifty

Answer 418

ADJ. /节省的；抠包的/careful about money; economical. A thrifty shopper compares prices before making major purchases.

Question 419

thrive

Answer 419

V. /繁荣；昌盛/prosper; flourish. Despite the impact of the reces¬sion on the restaurant trade, Philip's cafe thrived.

Question 420

throes

Answer 420

N. /剧痛/violent anguish. The throes of despair can be as devastating as the spasms accompanying physical pain.

Question 421

throng

Answer 421

N. /聚集/crowd. Throngs of shoppers jammed the aisles. alsoV.

Question 422

thwart

Answer 422

V. /阻碍；挫败/baffle; frustrate. He felt that everyone was trying to thwart his plans and prevent his success.

Question 423

tightwad

Answer 423

N. /吝啬鬼/excessively frugal person; miser. Jill called Jack a tightwad because he never picked up the check.

Question 424

tiller

Answer 424

N. /舵柄；农夫/handle used to move boat's rudder (to steer). Fearing the wind might shift suddenly and capsize the skiff, Tom kept one hand on the tiller at all times.

Question 425

timidity

Answer 425

N. /胆怯/lack of self-confidence or courage. If you are to succeed as a salesman, you must first lose your timidity and fear of failure.

Question 426

timorous

Answer 426

ADJ. /害怕的/fearful; demonstrating fear. His timorous manner betrayed the fear he felt at the moment.

Question 427

tirade

Answer 427

N. /长篇慷慨激昂的演说/extended scolding; denunciation; harangue. Every time the boss holds a meeting, he goes into a lengthy tirade, scolding us for everything from tardiness to padding our expenses.

Question 428

titanic

Answer 428

ADJ. /巨大的/gigantic. Titanic waves beat against the majes¬tic S.S. Titanic, driving it against the concealed iceberg.

Question 429

title

Answer 429

N. /名字；等级；拥有权/right or claim to possession; mark of rank; name (of a book, film, etc.). Though the penniless Duke of Ragwort no longer held title to the family estate, he still retained his title as head of one of England's oldest families.

Question 430

titter

Answer 430

N. /神经质的笑/nervous laugh. Her aunt's constant titter nearly drove her mad. alsoV.

Question 431

titular

Answer 431

ADJ. /有名无实的/nominal holding of title without obligations. Although he was the titular head of the company, the real decisions were made by his general manager.

Question 432

toady

Answer 432

N. /谄媚的人；马屁精/servile flatterer; yes man. Never tell the boss any¬thing he doesn't wish to hear: he doesn't want an indepen¬dent adviser, he just wants a toady. alsoV.

Question 433

tome

Answer 433

N. /册；卷/large volume. He spent much time in the libraries poring over ancient tomes.

Question 434

tonic

Answer 434

ADJ. /精神充沛的/invigorating; refreshing. The tart homemade ginger ale had a tonic effect on Kit: she perked right up. also N.

Question 435

topography

Answer 435

N. /拓扑学/physical features of a region. Before the generals gave the order to attack, they ordered a complete study of the topography of the region.

Question 436

torpor

Answer 436

N. /迟钝；麻木；不活泼/lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy. Throughout the winter, nothing aroused the bear from his torpor: he would not emerge from hibernation until spring. torpid,ADJ.

Question 437

torrent

Answer 437

N. /急流；洪水/rushing stream; flood. Day after day of heavy rain saturated the hillside until the water ran downhill in tor¬rents. torrential,ADJ.

Question 438

torrid

Answer 438

ADJ. /有激情的；热带的/passionate; hot or scorching. Harlequin Romances publish torrid tales of love affairs, some set in torrid climates.

Question 439

torso

Answer 439

N. /未完成的；残缺的/trunk of statue with head and limbs missing; human trunk. This torso, found in the ruins of Pompeii, is now on exhibition in the museum in Naples.

Question 440

tortuous

Answer 440

ADJ. /曲折的，蜿蜒的/winding; full of curves. Because this road is so tortuous, it is unwise to go faster than twenty miles an hour on it.

Question 441

totter

Answer 441

V. /摇摆；摇摇欲坠/move unsteadily; sway, as if about to fall. On unsteady feet, the drunk tottered down the hill to the near¬est bar.

Question 442

touchstone

Answer 442

N. /试金石；准绳；标准；尺度/stone used to test the fineness of gold alloys; criterion. What touchstone can be used to measure the character of a person?

Question 443

touchy

Answer 443

ADJ. /暴躁的；难以处理的；易上火的/sensitive; irascible. Do not mention his bald spot; he's very touchy about it.

Question 444

tout

Answer 444

V. /吹捧/publicize; praise excessively. I lost confidence in my broker after he touted some junk bonds to me that turned out to be a bad investment.

Question 445

toxic

Answer 445

ADJ. /有毒的/poisonous. We must seek an antidote for what¬ever toxic substance he has eaten. toxicity, N.

Question 446

tract

Answer 446

N. /地域；小册子/region of land (often imprecisely described); pam¬phlet. The king granted William Penn a tract of land in the New World. Penn then printed a tract in which he encour¬aged settlers to join his colony.

Question 447

tractable

Answer 447

ADJ. /驯良的；温顺的；易处理的/docile; easily managed. Although Susan seemed a tractable young woman, she had a stubborn streak of independence that occasionally led her to defy the powers-that-be when she felt they were in the wrong.

Question 448

traduce

Answer 448

V. /诽谤；中伤/expose to slander. His opponents tried to tra¬duce the candidate's reputation by spreading rumors about his past.

Question 449

trajectory

Answer 449

N. /弹道；轨迹；抛物线/path taken by a projectile. The police tried to locate the spot from which the assassin had fired the fatal shot by tracing the trajectory of the bullet.

Question 450

tranquillity

Answer 450

N. /平静；冷静/calmness; peace. After the commotion and excitement of the city, I appreciate the tranquillity of these fields and forests.

Question 451

transcendent

Answer 451

ADJ. /卓越的；非比寻常的/surpassing; exceeding ordinary limits; superior. For the amateur chef, dining at the four-star restaurant was a transcendent experience: the meal sur¬passed his wildest dreams.

Question 452

transcribe

Answer 452

V. /复制/copy. When you transcribe your notes, please send a copy to Mr. Smith and keep the original for our files. transcription, N.

Question 453

transgression

Answer 453

N. /犯罪/violation of a law; sin. Forgive us our transgressions; we know not what we do.

Question 454

transient

Answer 454

ADJ. /暂时的/momentary; temporary; staying for a short time. Lexy's joy at finding the perfect Christmas gift for Phil was transient, she still had to find presents for the cousins and Uncle Bob. Located near the airport, this hotel caters to a largely transient trade. transience, N.

Question 455

transition

Answer 455

N. /过渡；转换；跃迁/going from one state of action to another. During the period of transition from oil heat to gas heat, the furnace will have to be shut off.

Question 456

transitory

Answer 456

ADJ. /短时间的/impermanent; fleeting. Fame is transitory: today's rising star is all too soon tomorrow's washed-up has-been. transitoriness, N.

Question 457

translucent

Answer 457

ADJ. /半透明的/partly transparent. We could not recog¬nize the people in the next room because of the translucent curtains that separated us.

Question 458

transmute

Answer 458

V. /改变/change; convert to something different. He was unable to transmute his dreams into actualities.

Question 459

transparent

Answer 459

ADJ. /透明的；容易检测的，明晰的/easily detected; permitting light to pass through freely. John's pride in his son is transparent; no one who sees the two of them together can miss it.

Question 460

transport

Answer 460

N. /运输；狂喜/strong emotion. Margo was a creature of extremes, at one moment in transports of joy over a vivid sunset, at another moment in transports of grief over a dying bird. also V. (secondary meaning)

Question 461

trappings

Answer 461

N. /服饰；装饰/outward decorations; ornaments. He loved the trappings of success: the limousines, the stock options, the company jet.

Question 462

traumatic

Answer 462

ADJ. /外伤的/pertaining to an injury caused by violence. In his nightmares, he kept on recalling the traumatic experi¬ence of being wounded in battle.

Question 463

travail

Answer 463

N. /辛苦劳作/painful labor. How long do you think a man can endure such travail and degradation without rebelling?

Question 464

traverse

Answer 464

V. /穿过/go through or across. When you traverse this field, be careful of the bull.

Question 465

travesty

Answer 465

N. /滑稽化；滑稽模仿/comical parody; treatment aimed at making something appear ridiculous. The ridiculous decision the jury has reached is a travesty of justice.

Question 466

treacly

Answer 466

ADJ. /甜蜜的/sticky sweet; cloyingly sentimental. Irritatingly cheerful, always looking on the bright side, Pollyanna speaks nothing but treacly sentimentalities. treacle, N.

Question 467

treatise

Answer 467

N. /论文/article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly. He is preparing a treatise on the Elizabethan playwrights for his graduate degree.

Question 468

trek

Answer 468

N. /旅行/travel; journey. The tribe made their trek farther north that summer in search of game. alsoV.

Question 469

tremor

Answer 469

N. /振动的/trembling; slight quiver. She had a nervous tremor in her right hand.

Question 470

tremulous

Answer 470

ADJ. /震荡的/trembling; wavering. She was tremulous more from excitement than from fear.

Question 471

trenchant

Answer 471

ADJ. /锋利的/cutting; keen. I am afraid of his trenchant wit for it is so often sarcastic.

Question 472

trepidation

Answer 472

N. /惧怕/fear; nervous apprehension. As she entered the office of the dean of admissions, Sharon felt some trepi¬dation about how she would do in her interview.

Question 473

trespass

Answer 473

V. /过失；侵入/unlawfully enter the boundaries of some else's property. The wicked baron flogged any poacher who tres¬passed on his private hunting grounds. also N.

Question 474

tribute

Answer 474

N. /贡品；殷勤；颂词；礼物/tax levied by a ruler; mark of respect. The colonists refused to pay tribute to a foreign despot.

Question 475

trifling

Answer 475

ADJ. /不重要的/trivial; unimportant. Why bother going to see a doctor for such a trifling, everyday cold?

Question 476

trigger

Answer 476

V. /引起；触发；扳机/set off. John is touchy today; say one word wrong and you'll trigger an explosion.

Question 477

trinket

Answer 477

N. /小玩意儿；密谋/knickknack; bauble. Whenever she traveled abroad, Ethel would pick up costume jewelry and other trin¬kets as souvenirs.

Question 478

trite

Answer 478

ADJ. /陈腐的/hackneyed; commonplace. The trite and pre¬dictable situations in many television programs turn off many viewers, who, in turn, turn off their sets.

Question 479

trivial

Answer 479

ADJ. /不重要的/unimportant; trifling. Too many magazines ignore newsworthy subjects and feature trivial affairs. trivia, N.

Question 480

trough

Answer 480

N. /槽；低谷/container for feeding farm animals; lowest point (of a wave, business cycle, etc.) The hungry pigs struggled to get at the fresh swill in the trough. The surfer rode her board, coasting along in the trough between two waves.

Question 481

truculence

Answer 481

N. /野蛮；粗鲁/aggressiveness; ferocity. Tynan's reviews were noted for their caustic attacks and general tone of tru¬culence. truculent,ADJ.

Question 482

truism

Answer 482

N. /真实性/self-evident truth. Many a truism is summed up in a proverb; for example, "Marry in haste, repent at leisure."

Question 483

truncate

Answer 483

V. /截去尖端/cut the top off. The top of a cone that has been truncated in a plane parallel to its base is a circle.

Question 484

tryst

Answer 484

N. /约会；幽会/meeting. The lovers kept their tryst even though they realized their danger.

Question 485

tumult

Answer 485

N. /吵闹；混乱/commotion; riot; noise. She could not make her¬self heard over the tumult of the mob.

Question 486

tundra

Answer 486

N. /苔原；冻土/rolling, treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America. Despite the cold, many geologists are trying to discover valuable mineral deposits in the tundra.

Question 487

turbid

Answer 487

ADJ. /浑浊的；搅动了沉淀物的/muddy; having the sediment disturbed. The water was turbid after the children had waded through it.

Question 488

turbulence

Answer 488

N. /湍流；骚乱；动荡/state of violent agitation. Warned of approaching turbulence in the atmosphere, the pilot told the passengers to fasten their seat belts.

Question 489

turgid

Answer 489

ADJ. /肿胀的/swollen; distended. The turgid river threatened to overflow the levees and flood the countryside.

Question 490

turmoil

Answer 490

N. /骚动；混乱/great commotion and confusion. Lydia running off with a soldier! Mother fainting at the news! The Bennet household was in turmoil.

Question 491

turncoat

Answer 491

N. /叛徒；叛逆者/traitor. The British considered Benedict Arnold a loyalist; the Americans considered him a turncoat.

Question 492

turpitude

Answer 492

N. /奸恶；卑鄙/depravity. A visitor may be denied admittance to this country if she has been guilty of moral turpitude.

Question 493

tutelage

Answer 493

N. /监护/guardianship; training. Under the tutelage of such masters of the instrument, she made rapid progress as a virtuoso.

Question 494

tycoon

Answer 494

N. /大亨/wealthy leader. John D. Rockefeller was a prominent tycoon.

Question 495

typhoon

Answer 495

N. /台风/tropical hurricane or cyclone. If you liked Twister, you'll love Typhoon!

Question 496

tyranny

Answer 496

N. /暴政；专制/oppression; cruel government. Frederick Dou¬glass fought against the tyranny of slavery throughout his life.

Question 497

tyro

Answer 497

N. /新手/beginner; novice. For a mere tyro, you have pro¬duced some wonderfully expert results.

Question 498

ubiquitous

Answer 498

ADJ. /无所不在的/being everywhere; omnipresent. That Christmas "The Little Drummer Boy" seemed ubiquitous; David heard the tune everywhere.

Question 499

ulterior

Answer 499

ADJ. /将来的；隐蔽的/situated beyond; unstated. You must have an ulterior motive for your behavior, since there is no obvious reason for it.

Question 500

ultimate

Answer 500

ADJ. /终极的/final; not susceptible to further analysis. Sci¬entists are searching for ultimate truths.

Question 501

unaccountable

Answer 501

ADJ. /无责任的；无法解释的/inexplicable; unreasonable or mysteri¬ous. I have taken an unaccountable dislike to my doctor: "I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. The reason why, I cannot tell."

Question 502

unanimity

Answer 502

N. /全体同意；全体一致/complete agreement. We were surprised by the unanimity with which members of both parties accepted our proposals. unanimous,ADJ.

Question 503

unassailable

Answer 503

ADJ. /攻不破的/not subject to question; not open to attack. Penelope's virtue was unassailable; while she waited for her husband to come back from the war, no other man had a chance.

Question 504

unassuming

Answer 504

ADJ. /谦逊的/modest. He is so unassuming that some people fail to realize how great a man he really is.

Question 505

unbridled

Answer 505

ADJ. /放肆的；肆虐的/violent. She had a sudden fit of unbridled rage.

Question 506

uncanny

Answer 506

ADJ. /离奇的/strange; mysterious. You have the uncanny knack of reading my innermost thoughts.

Question 507

unconscionable

Answer 507

ADJ. /不合理的；不道德的；过度的/unscrupulous; excessive. She found the loan shark's demands unconscionable and impossible to meet.

Question 508

uncouth

Answer 508

ADJ. /笨拙的；粗俗的/outlandish; clumsy; boorish. Most biogra¬phers portray Lincoln as an uncouth and ungainly young man.

Question 509

Unctuous

Answer 509

ADJ. /油的；油质的；松软肥沃的/oily; bland; insincerely suave. Uriah Heep disguised his nefarious actions by unctuous protestations of his "humility."

Question 510

underlying

Answer 510

ADJ. /根本的；在下面的；潜在的/fundamental; lying below. The underlying cause of the student riot was not the strict curfew rule but the moldy cafeteria food. Miss Marple seems a sweet little old lady at first, but there's an iron will underlying that soft and fluffy facade.

Question 511

undermine

Answer 511

V. /破坏/weaken; sap. The recent corruption scan¬dals have undermined many people's faith in the city government. The recent torrential rains have washed away much of the cliffside; the deluge threatens to under¬mine the pillars supporting several houses at the edge of the cliff.

Question 512

underscore

Answer 512

V. /强调/emphasize. Addressing the jogging class, Kim underscored the importance to runners of good nutrition.

Question 513

undulating

Answer 513

ADJ. /波浪的/moving with a wavelike motion. The Hilo Hula Festival was an undulating sea of grass skirts.

Question 514

unearth

Answer 514

V. /出土；发掘/dig up. When they unearthed the city, the archeologists found many relics of an ancient civilization.

Question 515

unequivocal

Answer 515

ADJ. /明白清楚的/plain; obvious; unmistakable. My answer to your proposal is an unequivocal and absolute "No."

Question 516

unerringly

Answer 516

ADJ. /正确无误的/infallibly. My teacher unerringly pounced on the one typographical error in my essay.

Question 517

unfathomable

Answer 517

ADJ. /不可理解的；不能渗透的/incomprehensible; impenetrable. Unable to get to the bottom of the mystery, Watson declared it was unfathomable.

Question 518

unfetter

Answer 518

V. /解放/liberate; free from chains. Chained to the wall for months on end, the hostage despaired that he would ever be unfettered.

Question 519

unfrock

Answer 519

V. /解除神职/to strip a priest or minister of church authority. To disbar a lawyer, to unfrock a priest, to suspend a doctor's license to practice-these are extreme steps that the authorities should take only after careful considera¬tion.

Question 520

ungainly

Answer 520

ADJ. /糟糕的；笨拙的/awkward; clumsy; unwieldy. "If you want to know whether Nick's an ungainly dancer, check out my bruised feet," said Nora. Anyone who has ever tried to carry a bass fiddle knows it's an ungainly instrument.

Question 521

uniformity

Answer 521

N. /一致性；同样/sameness; monotony. At Persons magazine, we strive for uniformity of style; as a result, all our writers wind up sounding exactly alike.

Question 522

unimpeachable

Answer 522

ADJ. /无懈可击的/blameless and exemplary. Her con¬duct in office was unimpeachable and her record is spotless.

Question 523

uninhibited

Answer 523

ADJ. /放荡不羁的；不受限制的/unrepressed. The congregation was shocked by her uninhibited laughter during the sermon.

Question 524

unintimidating

Answer 524

ADJ. /无惧的/unfrightening. Though Phil had expected to feel overawed when he met Steve Young, he found the famous quarterback friendly and unintimidating.

Question 525

unique

Answer 525

ADJ. /独一无二的/without an equal; single in kind. You have the unique distinction of being the only student whom I have had to fail in this course.

Question 526

universal

Answer 526

ADJ. /通用的/characterizing or affecting all; present every¬where. At first, no one shared Christopher's opinions; his the¬ory that the world was round was met with universal disdain.

Question 527

unkempt

Answer 527

ADJ. /蓬乱的；粗野的；不洁的/disheveled; uncared for in appearance. Jeremy hated his neighbor's unkempt lawn: he thought its neglected appearance had a detrimental effect on neigh¬borhood property values.

Question 528

unmitigated

Answer 528

ADJ. /未缓和的；绝对的/unrelieved or immoderate; absolute. After four days of unmitigated heat, I was ready to collapse from heat prostration. The congresswoman's husband was an unmitigated jerk: not only did he abandon her, he took her campaign funds, too!

Question 529

unobtrusive

Answer 529

ADJ. /不显眼的；朴素的/inconspicuous; not blatant. Reluctant to attract notice, the governess took a chair in a far corner of the room and tried to be as unobtrusive as possible.

Question 530

unpalatable

Answer 530

ADJ. /厌恶的；不好吃的；味道糟糕的/distasteful; disagreeable. "I refuse to swallow your conclusion," said she, finding his logic unpalatable.

Question 531

unprecedented

Answer 531

ADJ. /空前的/novel; unparalleled. For a first novel, Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind was an unprecedented success.

Question 532

unprepossessing

Answer 532

ADJ. /不吸引人的/unattractive. During adolescence many attractive young people somehow acquire the false notion that their appearance is unprepossessing.

Question 533

unravel

Answer 533

V. /拆开；解决/disentangle; solve. With equal ease Miss Marple unraveled tangled balls of yarn and baffling murder mysteries.

Question 534

unrequited

Answer 534

ADJ. /不报答的，不回应的/not reciprocated. Suffering the pangs of unrequited love, Olivia rebukes Cesario for his hardheart¬edness.

Question 535

unruly

Answer 535

ADJ. /不服从的；倔强的/disobedient; lawless. The only way to curb this unruly mob is to use tear gas.

Question 536

unscathed

Answer 536

ADJ. /没有受伤的/unharmed. They prayed he would come back from the war unscathed.

Question 537

unseemly

Answer 537

ADJ. /不体面的/unbecoming; indecent; in poor taste. When he put whoopie cushions on all the seats in the funeral par¬lor, his conduct was most unseemly.

Question 538

unsightly

Answer 538

ADJ. /难看的/ugly. Although James was an experienced emergency room nurse, he occasionally became queasy when faced with a particularly unsightly injury.

Question 539

unstinting

Answer 539

ADJ. /慷慨的；无保留的/giving generously; not holding back. The dean praised the donor of the new science building for her unstinting generosity.

Question 540

untenable

Answer 540

ADJ. /防不住的；防不胜防的；站不住的/indefensible; not able to be maintained. Wayne is so contrary that, the more untenable a position is, the harder he'll try to defend it.

Question 541

unwarranted

Answer 541

ADJ. /莫名其妙的；没来由的；冤枉的/unjustified; groundless; undeserved. Your assumption that I would accept your proposal is unwarranted, sir; I do not want to marry you at all. We could not understand Martin's unwarranted rudeness to his mother's guests.

Question 542

unwieldy

Answer 542

ADJ. /糟糕的；笨拙的/awkward; cumbersome; unmanageable. The large carton was so unwieldy that the movers had trou¬ble getting it up the stairs.

Question 543

unwitting

Answer 543

ADJ. /不知情的/unintentional; not knowing. She was the unwitting tool of the swindlers.

Question 544

upbraid

Answer 544

V. /责备/severely scold; reprimand. Not only did Miss Minchin upbraid Ermengarde for her disobedience, but she hung her up by her braids from a coat rack in the classroom. uproarious ADJ. marked by commotion; extremely funny; very noisy. The uproarious comedy hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective starred Jim Carrey, whose comic mugging pro¬voked gales of uproarious laughter from audiences coast to coast.

Question 545

upshot

Answer 545

N. /结果/outcome. The upshot of the rematch was that the former champion proved that he still possessed all the skills of his youth.

Question 546

urbane

Answer 546

ADJ. /文雅的；高雅的；彬彬有礼的/suave; refined; elegant. The courtier was urbane and sophisticated. urbanity, N.

Question 547

usurp

Answer 547

V. /篡取/seize another's power or rank. The revolution ended when the victorious rebel general succeeded in his attempt to usurp the throne.

Question 548

utopia

Answer 548

N. /乌托邦/ideal place, state, or society. Fed up with this imperfect universe, Don would have liked to run off to Shangri-la or some other imaginary utopia. utopian, ADJ. vacillate V. waver; fluctuate. Uncertain which suitor she ought to marry, the princess vacillated, saying now one, now the other. The big boss likes his people to be decisive: when he asks you for your opinion, whatever you do, don't vacillate. vacillation, N.

Question 549

vacuous

Answer 549

ADJ. /空虚的；空的/empty; inane. The vacuous remarks of the politician annoyed the audience, who had hoped to hear more than empty platitudes.

Question 550

vagabond

Answer 550

N. /流浪者/wanderer; tramp. In summer, college stu¬dents wander the roads of Europe like carefree vagabonds. alsoADJ.

Question 551

vagrant

Answer 551

N. /无家可归的流浪者/a homeless wanderer. Because he was a stranger in town with no visible means of support, Martin feared he would be jailed as a vagrant. vagrancy, N.

Question 552

valedictory

Answer 552

ADJ. /告别的/pertaining to farewell. I found the valedic¬tory address too long; leave-taking should be brief.

Question 553

valid

Answer 553

ADJ. /正当的；有效的/logically convincing; sound; legally acceptable. You're going to have to come up with a better argument if you want to convince me that your reasoning is valid.

Question 554

validate

Answer 554

V. /批准；确认/confirm; ratify. I will not publish my findings until I validate my results.

Question 555

valor

Answer 555

N. /英勇；勇猛/bravery. He received the Medal of Honor for his valor in battle.

Question 556

vampire

Answer 556

N. /吸血鬼/ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living. Children were afraid to go to sleep because of the many legends of vampires roaming at night.

Question 557

vanguard

Answer 557

N. /先驱；先锋/forerunners; advance forces. We are the van¬guard of a tremendous army that is following us.

Question 558

vantage

Answer 558

N. /优势/position giving an advantage. They fired upon the enemy from behind trees, walls and any other point of vantage they could find.

Question 559

vapid

Answer 559

ADJ. /平淡单调的；索然无味的；缺乏想象力的/dull and unimaginative; insipid and flavorless. "Bor-ing!" said Jessica, as she suffered through yet another vapid lecture about Dead White Male Poets.

Question 560

*vaporize

Answer 560

V. /蒸发/turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc.). "Zap!" went Super Mario's atomic ray gun as he vaporized another deadly foe.

Question 561

variegated

Answer 561

ADJ. /杂色的/many-colored. Without her glasses, Gretchen saw the fields of tulips as a variegated blur.

Question 562

veer

Answer 562

V. /转向/change in direction. After what seemed an eter¬nity, the wind veered to the east and the storm abated.

Question 563

vehement

Answer 563

ADJ. /激烈的；热烈的/forceful; intensely emotional; with marked vigor. Alfred became so vehement in describing what was wrong with the Internal Revenue Service that he began jumping up and down and frothing at the mouth. vehemence, N.

Question 564

velocity

Answer 564

N. /速度/speed. The train went by at considerable velocity.

Question 565

venal

Answer 565

ADJ. /贪污的/capable of being bribed. The venal policeman cheerfully accepted the bribe offered him by the speeding motorist whom he had stopped.

Question 566

vendetta

Answer 566

N. /深仇；世仇/blood feud. The rival mobs engaged in a bitter vendetta.

Question 567

vendor

Answer 567

N. /卖主/seller. The fruit vendor sold her wares from a stall on the sidewalk.

Question 568

veneer

Answer 568

N. /薄板；外表/thin layer; cover. Casual acquaintances were deceived by his veneer of sophistication and failed to rec¬ognize his fundamental shallowness.

Question 569

venerable

Answer 569

ADJ. /庄严的；值得尊重的/deserving high respect. We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refuse to follow the advice of our venerable leader.

Question 570

venerate

Answer 570

V. /崇敬/revere. In Tibet today, the common people still venerate their traditional spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Question 571

venial

Answer 571

ADJ. /可宽恕的/forgivable; trivial. When Jean Valjean stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving sister, he committed a venial offense.

Question 572

venom

Answer 572

N. /毒液；恶毒/poison; hatred. Bitten by a rattlesnake on his ankle, the cowboy contortionist curled up like a pretzel and sucked the venom out of the wound.

Question 573

vent

Answer 573

N. /出口，出路/a small opening; outlet. The wine did not flow because the air vent in the barrel was clogged.

Question 574

vent

Answer 574

V. /表达；发泄/express; utter. The angry teacher vented his wrath on his class.

Question 575

ventriloquist

Answer 575

N. /口技表演者/someone who can make his or her voice seem to come from another person or thing. This ventrilo¬quist does an act in which she has a conversation with a wooden dummy.

Question 576

venturesome

Answer 576

ADJ. /冒险的/bold. A group of venturesome women were the first to scale Mt. Annapurna.

Question 577

veracity

Answer 577

N. /真实；准确性/truthfulness. Asserting his veracity, young George Washington proclaimed, "Father, I cannot tell a lie!"

Question 578

verbalize

Answer 578

V. /描述/put into words. I know you don't like to talk about these things, but please try to verbalize your feelings.

Question 579

verbatim

Answer 579

ADV. /逐字的/word for word. He repeated the message verbatim. alsoADJ.

Question 580

verbiage

Answer 580

N. /空话；大话/pompous array of words. After we had waded through all the verbiage, we discovered that the writer had said very little.

Question 581

verbose

Answer 581

ADJ. /冗长的/wordy. Someone mute can't talk; someone verbose can hardly stop talking.

Question 582

verdant

Answer 582

ADJ. /翠绿的；生疏的；无经验的/green; lush in vegetation. Monet's paintings of the verdant meadows were symphonies in green.

Question 583

verge

Answer 583

N. /边界/border; edge. Madame Curie knew she was on the verge of discovering the secrets of radioactive ele¬ments. alsoV.

Question 584

verisimilitude

Answer 584

N. /逼真/appearance of truth; likelihood. Critics praised her for the verisimilitude of her performance as Lady Macbeth. She was completely believable.

Question 585

verity

Answer 585

N. /真实；真理；真实的陈述/quality of being true; lasting truth or principle. Did you question the verity of Kato Kaelin's testimony about what he heard the night Nicole Brown Simpson was slain? To the skeptic, everything was relative: there were no eter¬nal verities in which one could believe.

Question 586

vernacular

Answer 586

N. /母语；本国；本来的东西/living language; natural style. Cut out those old-fashioned thee's and thou's and write in the vernacular. alsoADJ.

Question 587

versatile

Answer 587

ADJ. /万能的；通用的；多面手的/having many talents; capable of working in many fields. She was a versatile athlete, earning varsity let¬ters in basketball, hockey, and track.

Question 588

vertex

Answer 588

N. /顶点/summit. Let us drop a perpendicular line from the vertex of the triangle to the base.

Question 589

vertigo

Answer 589

N. /晕眩/severe dizziness. When you test potential air¬plane pilots for susceptibility to spells of vertigo, be sure to hand out air-sickness bags.

Question 590

verve

Answer 590

N. /神韵；活力；热情/enthusiasm; liveliness. She approached her stud¬ies with such verve that it was impossible for her to do poorly.

Question 591

vestige

Answer 591

N. /遗迹；痕迹；残留物/trace; remains. We discovered vestiges of early Indian life in the cave. vestigial,ADJ.

Question 592

vex

Answer 592

N. /激怒；惹恼/annoy; distress. Please try not to vex your mother; she is doing the best she can.

Question 593

viable

Answer 593

ADJ. /能养活的；可行的/practical or workable; capable of maintaining life. That idea won't work. Let me see whether I can come up with a viable alternative.

Question 594

vicarious

Answer 594

ADJ. /代理的；代理人的/acting as a substitute; done by a deputy. Many people get a vicarious thrill at the movies by imagin¬ing they are the characters on the screen.

Question 595

vicissitude

Answer 595

N. /转运/change of fortune. Humbled by life's vicissi¬tudes, the last emperor of China worked as a lowly gar¬dener in the palace over which he had once ruled.

Question 596

vie

Answer 596

V. /竞争/contend; compete. Politicians vie with one another, competing for donations and votes.

Question 597

vigilance

Answer 597

N. /警惕/watchfulness. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Question 598

vignette

Answer 598

N. /小插图/picture; short literary sketch. The New Yorker published her latest vignette.

Question 599

vigor

Answer 599

N. /活力/active strength. Although he was over seventy years old, Jack had the vigor of a man in his prime. vigor¬OUS,ADJ.

Question 600

vilify

Answer 600

V. /诽谤；辱骂/slander. Waging a highly negative campaign, the candidate attempted to vilify his opponent's reputation. vili¬fication, N.

Question 601

vindicate

Answer 601

V. /辩护；维护/clear from blame; exonerate; justify or sup¬port. The lawyer's goal was to vindicate her client and prove him innocent on all charges. The critics' extremely favorable reviews vindicate my opinion that The Madness of King George is a brilliant movie.

Question 602

vindictive

Answer 602

ADJ. /报复性的/out for revenge; malicious. I think it's unwor¬thy of Martha to be so vindictive; she shouldn't stoop to such petty acts of revenge.

Question 603

viper

Answer 603

N. /蝰蛇/poisonous snake. The habitat of the horned viper, a particularly venomous snake, is in sandy regions like the Sahara or the Sinai peninsula.

Question 604

virile

Answer 604

ADJ. /男子的；男子气概的/manly. I do not accept the premise that a man proves he's virile by being belligerent.

Question 605

virtual

Answer 605

ADJ. /有效的；实质的；虚的/in essence; for practical purposes. She is a vir¬tual financial wizard when it comes to money matters.

Question 606

virtue

Answer 606

N. /美德/goodness, moral excellence; good quality. Virtue carried to extremes can turn into vice: humility, for example, can degenerate into servility and spinelessness.

Question 607

virtuoso

Answer 607

N. /艺术品鉴赏家/highly skilled artist. The child prodigy Yehudi Menuhin grew into a virtuoso whose violin performances thrilled millions. virtuosity, N.

Question 608

virulent

Answer 608

ADJ. /剧毒的/extremely poisonous; hostile; bitter. Laid up with a virulent case of measles, Vera blamed her doctors because her recovery took so long. In fact, she became quite virulent on the subject of the quality of modern medical care.

Question 609

virus

Answer 609

N. /病毒/disease communicator. The doctors are looking for a specific medicine to control this virus.

Question 610

visceral

Answer 610

ADJ. /内脏的/felt in one's inner organs. She disliked the vis¬ceral sensations she had whenever she rode the roller coaster.

Question 611

viscid

Answer 611

ADJ. /粘合的/adhesive; gluey. The trunk of the maple tree was viscid with sap.

Question 612

viscous

Answer 612

ADJ. /粘的/sticky; gluey. Melted tar is a viscous sub¬stance. Viscosity, N.

Question 613

vise

Answer 613

N. /老虎钳/tool for holding work in place. Before filing its edges, the locksmith took the blank key and fixed it firmly between the jaws of a vise.

Question 614

visionary

Answer 614

ADJ. /幻想的/produced by imagination; fanciful; mystical. She was given to visionary schemes that never materialized. also N.

Question 615

vital

Answer 615

ADJ. /重要的；生命的；生机的/vibrant and lively; critical; living, breathing. The vital, highly energetic first aid instructor stressed that it was vital in examining accident victims to note their vital signs.

Question 616

vitriolic

Answer 616

ADJ. /腐蚀的；硫酸的；讽刺的/corrosive; sarcastic. Such vitriolic criticism is uncalled for.

Question 617

vituperative

Answer 617

ADJ. /责骂的/abusive; scolding. He became more vitu¬perative as he realized that we were not going to grant him his wish.

Question 618

vivacious

Answer 618

ADJ. /生动的/animated; lively. She had always been viva¬cious and sparkling.

Question 619

vociferous

Answer 619

ADJ. /喊叫的；吵闹的/clamorous; noisy. The crowd grew vocifer¬ous in its anger and threatened to take the law into its own hands.

Question 620

vogue

Answer 620

N. /时尚/popular fashion. Jeans became the vogue on many college campuses.

Question 621

volatile

Answer 621

ADJ. /挥发的；飞行的；可变的；爆炸的/changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly. The political climate today is extremely volatile: No one can predict what the electorate will do next. Maria Callas's tem¬per was extremely volatile: The only thing you could predict was that she was sure to blow up. Acetone is an extremely volatile liquid: It evaporates instantly.

Question 622

volition

Answer 622

N. /意志/act of making a conscious choice. She selected this dress of her own volition.

Question 623

voluble

Answer 623

ADJ. /口齿伶俐的；爱说话的/fluent; glib; talkative. The excessively voluble speaker suffers from logorrhea: he runs off at the mouth a lot!

Question 624

voluminous

Answer 624

ADJ. /庞大的/bulky; large. A caftan is a voluminous garment; most people wearing one look as if they're draped in a small tent.

Question 625

voluptuous

Answer 625

ADJ. /令人满足的/gratifying the senses. The nobility during the Renaissance led voluptuous lives.

Question 626

voracious

Answer 626

ADJ. /贪婪的；狼吞虎咽的/ravenous. The wolf is a voracious animal, its hunger never satisfied.

Question 627

vortex

Answer 627

N. /漩涡；漩涡中心；（争斗、讨论的）中心/whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged. Sucked into the vortex of the tornado, Dorothy and Toto were car¬ried from Kansas to Oz.

Question 628

vouchsafe

Answer 628

V. /允许；赐予/grant; choose to give in reply; permit. Occa¬sionally the rock star would drift out onto the balcony and vouchsafe the crowd below a glimpse of her cele¬brated features. The professor vouchsafed not a word to the students' questions about what would be covered on the test.

Question 629

voyeur

Answer 629

N. /偷窥者/Peeping Tom. Nancy called her brother a voyeur when she caught him aiming his binoculars at an upstairs window of the house of the newlyweds next door.

Question 630

vulnerable

Answer 630

ADJ. /易受攻击的/susceptible to wounds. His opponents could not harm Achilles, who was vulnerable only in his heel.

Question 631

waffle

Answer 631

V. /闲聊；胡扯/speak equivocally about an issue. When asked directly about the governor's involvement in the savings and loan scandal, the press secretary waffled, talking all around the issue.

Question 632

waft

Answer 632

V. /飘荡；信号/moved gently by wind or waves. Daydreaming, he gazed at the leaves that wafted past his window.

Question 633

waggish

Answer 633

ADJ. /滑稽的；爱开玩笑的/mischievous; humorous; tricky. He was a prankster who, unfortunately, often overlooked the damage he could cause with his waggish tricks. wag, N.

Question 634

waif

Answer 634

N. /流浪儿童；流浪者/homeless child or animal. Although he already had eight cats, he could not resist adopting yet another feline waif.

Question 635

waive

Answer 635

V. /暂时放弃；屈从/give up temporarily; yield. I will waive my rights in this matter in order to expedite our reaching a proper decision.

Question 636

wake

Answer 636

N. /尾迹；痕迹/trail of ship or other object through water; path of something that has gone before. The wake of the swan glid¬ing through the water glistened in the moonlight. Reporters and photographers converged on South Carolina in the wake of the hurricane that devastated much of the eastern seaboard.

Question 637

wallow

Answer 637

V. /打滚；沉湎；堕落/roll in; indulge in; become helpless. The hip¬popotamus loves to wallow in the mud.

Question 638

wan

Answer 638

ADJ. /苍白的/having a pale or sickly color; pallid. Suckling asked, "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?"

Question 639

wane

Answer 639

V. /减少；变弱/decrease in size or strength; draw gradually to an end. When lit, does a wax candle wane?

Question 640

wanton

Answer 640

ADJ. /荒唐的；挥霍的；放荡的；不受限制的/unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste. Pointing to the stack of bills, Sheldon criticized Sarah for her wanton expenditures. In response, Sarah accused Shel¬don of making an unfounded, wanton attack.

Question 641

warble

Answer 641

V. /颤声轻唱；鸟鸣/sing; babble. Every morning the birds warbled outside her window. also N.

Question 642

warrant

Answer 642

V. /授权；证明；批准/justify; authorize. Before the judge issues the injunction, you must convince her this action is warranted.

Question 643

warranty

Answer 643

N. /担保；保证/guarantee; assurance by seller. The pur¬chaser of this automobile is protected by the manufac¬turer's warranty that the company will replace any defective part for five years or 50,000 miles.

Question 644

wary

Answer 644

ADJ. /机警的；小心的/very cautious. The spies grew wary as they approached the sentry.

Question 645

wastrel

Answer 645

N. /废物；饭桶；放荡的人/profligate. His neighbors denounced him as a wastrelwho had dissipated his inheritance.

Question 646

watershed

Answer 646

N. /分水岭/crucial dividing point. The invention of the personal computer proved a historic watershed, for it opened the way to today's Information Age.

Question 647

wax

Answer 647

V. /增长/increase; grow. With proper handling, his fortunes waxed and he became rich.

Question 648

waylay

Answer 648

V. /埋伏；伏击；抢劫/ambush; lie in wait. They agreed to waylay their victim as he passed through the dark alley going home.

Question 649

wean

Answer 649

V. /断奶；丢弃/accustom a baby to not nurse; give up a cher¬ished activity. He decided he would wean himself away from eating junk food and stick to fruits and vegetables.

Question 650

weather

Answer 650

V. /侵蚀；风化/endure the effects of weather or other forces. He weathered the changes in his personal life with difficulty, as he had no one in whom to confide.

Question 651

welter

Answer 651

N. /翻滚；挣扎；骚乱；搅乱/turmoil; bewildering jumble. The existing welter of overlapping federal and state programs cries out for immediate reform.

Question 652

wheedle

Answer 652

V. /哄骗；诱骗/cajole; coax; deceive by flattery. She knows she can wheedle almost anything she wants from her father.

Question 653

whelp

Answer 653

N. /幼兽/young wolf, dog, tiger, etc. This collie whelp won't do for breeding, but he'd make a fine pet.

Question 654

whet

Answer 654

V. /锐化；刺激/sharpen; stimulate. The odors from the kitchen are whetting my appetite; I will be ravenous by the time the meal is served.

Question 655

whiff

Answer 655

N. /一吹；一喷/puff or gust (of air, scent, etc.); hint. The slightest whiff of Old Spice cologne brought memories of George to her mind.

Question 656

whimsical

Answer 656

ADJ. /无常的；古怪的/capricious; fanciful. In Mrs. Doubtfire, the hero is a playful, whimsical man who takes a notion to dress up as a woman so that he can look after his children, who are in the custody of his ex-wife. whimsy, N.

Question 657

whinny

Answer 657

V. /马嘶/neigh like a horse. When he laughed through his nose, it sounded as if he whinnied.

Question 658

whittle

Answer 658

V. /切；削；损害/pare; cut off bits. As a present for Aunt Polly, Tom whittled some clothespins out of a chunk of wood.

Question 659

willful

Answer 659

ADJ. /顽固的；故意的/intentional; headstrong. Donald had planned to kill his wife for months; clearly, her death was a case of deliberate, willful murder, not a crime of passion committed by a hasty, willful youth unable to foresee the conse¬quences of his deeds.

Question 660

wily

Answer 660

ADJ. /狡猾的/cunning; artful. She is as wily as a fox in avoiding trouble.

Question 661

wince

Answer 661

V. /退缩/shrink back; flinch. The screech of the chalk on the blackboard made her wince.

Question 662

windfall

Answer 662

N. /横财/unexpected lucky event. This huge tax refund is quite a windfall.

Question 663

winnow

Answer 663

V. /扬谷；分出好坏/sift; separate good parts from bad. This test will winnow out the students who study from those who don't bother.

Question 664

winsome

Answer 664

ADJ. /迷人的/agreeable; gracious; engaging. By her win¬some manner, she made herself liked by everyone who met her.

Question 665

wispy

Answer 665

ADJ. /纤细的；脆弱的/thin; slight; barely discernible. Worried about preserving his few wispy tufts of hair, Walter carefully mas¬saged his scalp and applied hair restorer every night.

Question 666

wistful

Answer 666

ADJ. /渴望的/vaguely longing; sadly thoughtful. With a last wistful glance at the happy couples dancing in the hall, Sue headed back to her room to study for her exam.

Question 667

withdrawn

Answer 667

ADJ. /内向的；孤僻的/introverted; remote. Rebuffed by his col¬leagues, the initially outgoing young researcher became increasingly withdrawn.

Question 668

wither

Answer 668

V. /凋谢；枯萎/shrivel; decay. Cut flowers are beautiful for a day, but all too soon they wither.

Question 669

withhold

Answer 669

V. /拒给；保留/refuse to give; hold back. The tenants decided to withhold a portion of the rent until the landlord kept his promise to renovate the building.

Question 670

withstand

Answer 670

V. /抵抗；经受住/stand up against; successfully resist. If you can withstand all the peer pressure in high school to cut classes and goof off, you should survive college just fine.

Question 671

witless

Answer 671

ADJ. /无知的；轻率的/foolish; idiotic. If Beavis is a half-wit, then Butthead is totally witless.

Question 672

witticism

Answer 672

N. /俏皮话/witty saying; wisecrack. I don't mean any criti¬cism, but that last witticism totally hurt my feelings.

Question 673

wizardry

Answer 673

N. /巫术，魔术/sorcery; magic. Merlin the Magician amazed the knights with his wizardry.

Question 674

woe

Answer 674

N. /悲哀的/deep, inconsolable grief; affliction; suffering. Pale and wan with grief, Wanda was bowed down beneath the burden of her woes.

Question 675

worldly

Answer 675

ADJ. /世俗的/engrossed in matters of this earth; not spiri¬tual. You must leave your worldly goods behind you when you go to meet your Maker.

Question 676

wrath

Answer 676

N. /恼火；愤怒/anger; fury. She turned to him, full of wrath, and said, "What makes you think I'll accept lower pay for this job than you get?"

Question 677

wrench

Answer 677

V. /扭曲；扭伤；曲解；折磨；拉/pull; strain; twist. She wrenched free of her attacker and landed a powerful kick to his kneecap.

Question 678

writhe

Answer 678

V. /翻腾/twist in coils; contort in pain. In Dances with Snakes, the snake dancer wriggled sinuously as her boa constrictor writhed around her torso.

Question 679

wry

Answer 679

ADJ. /歪曲的；扭曲的/twisted; with a humorous twist. We enjoy Dorothy Parker's verse for its wrywit.

Question 680

xenophobia

Answer 680

N. /惧外的/fear or hatred of foreigners. When the refugee arrived in America, he was unprepared for the xenophobia he found there.

Question 681

yen

Answer 681

N. /渴望；瘾/longing; urge. She had a yen to get away and live on her own for a while.

Question 682

yield

Answer 682

V. /屈服；放弃/give in; surrender. The wounded knight refused to yield to his foe.

Question 683

yield

Answer 683

N. /产出；（投资的）回报/amount produced; crop; income on investment. An experienced farmer can estimate the annual yield of his acres with surprising accuracy. alsoV.

Question 684

yoke

Answer 684

V. /结合；连接/join together, unite. I don't wish to be yoked to him in marriage, as if we were cattle pulling a plow. also N.

Question 685

yore

Answer 685

N. /往昔/time past. He dreamed of the elegant homes of yore, but gave no thought to their inelegant plumbing.

Question 686

zany

Answer 686

ADJ. /滑稽的；疯狂的/crazy; comic. I can watch the Marx brothers' zany antics for hours.

Question 687

zeal

Answer 687

N. /热心；热诚/eager enthusiasm. Katya's zeal was contagious; soon all her fellow students were busily making posters, inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause. zealous,ADJ.

Question 688

zealot

Answer 688

N. /狂热者/fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal. Though Glenn was devout, he was no zealot, he never tried to force his beliefs on his friends.

Question 689

zenith

Answer 689

N. /顶点/point directly overhead in the sky; summit. When the sun was at its zenith, the glare was not as strong as at sunrise and sunset.

Question 690

zephyr

Answer 690

N. /和风；徐风/gentle breeze; west wind. When these zephyrs blow, it is good to be in an open boat under a full sail.