Barron 3500 SAT List 49 Flashcards
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venal
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.
velocity
N. /速度/speed. The train went by at considerable velocity.
vendetta
N. /深仇；世仇/blood feud. The rival mobs engaged in a bitter vendetta.
vendor
N. /卖主/seller. The fruit vendor sold her wares from a stall on the sidewalk.
veneer
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.
venerable
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.
venerate
V. /崇敬/revere. In Tibet today, the common people still venerate their traditional spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
venial
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.
venom
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.
vent
N. /出口，出路/a small opening; outlet. The wine did not flow because the air vent in the barrel was clogged.
vent
V. /表达；发泄/express; utter. The angry teacher vented his wrath on his class.
ventriloquist
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.
venturesome
ADJ. /冒险的/bold. A group of venturesome women were the first to scale Mt. Annapurna.
veracity
N. /真实；准确性/truthfulness. Asserting his veracity, young George Washington proclaimed, “Father, I cannot tell a lie!”
verbalize
V. /描述/put into words. I know you don’t like to talk about these things, but please try to verbalize your feelings.
verbatim
ADV. /逐字的/word for word. He repeated the message verbatim. alsoADJ.
verbiage
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.
verbose
ADJ. /冗长的/wordy. Someone mute can’t talk; someone verbose can hardly stop talking.
verdant
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.
verge
N. /边界/border; edge. Madame Curie knew she was on the verge of discovering the secrets of radioactive ele¬ments. alsoV.
verisimilitude
N. /逼真/appearance of truth; likelihood. Critics praised her for the verisimilitude of her performance as Lady Macbeth. She was completely believable.
verity
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.
vernacular
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.
versatile
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.
