Barron 3500 SAT List 5

Question 0

astringent

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ADJ. /收敛的/binding; causing contraction. The astringent quality of the unsweetened lemon juice made swallowing difficult. also N.

Question 1

astral

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ADJ. /关于星的/relating to the stars. She was amazed at the number of astral bodies the new telescope revealed.

Question 2

astronomical

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ADJ. /巨大，广阔/enormously large or extensive. The government seems willing to spend astronomical sums on weapons development.

Question 3

astute

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ADJ. /聪明；敏锐/wise; shrewd; keen. The painter was an astute observer, noticing every tiny detail of her model’s appearance and knowing exactly how important each one was.

Question 4

asunder

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ADV. /分裂，分开/into parts; apart. A fierce quarrel split the partnership asunder: the two partners finally sundered their connections because their points of view were poles asunder.

Question 5

asylum

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N. /庇护所/place of refuge or shelter; protection. The refugees sought asylum from religious persecution in a new land.

Question 6

asymmetric

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ADJ. /不对称/not identical on both sides of a dividing central line. Because one eyebrow was set markedly higher than the other, William’s face had a particularly asymmetric appearance.

Question 7

atavism

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N. /反祖；隔代遗传/resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; deformity returning after passage of two or more generations. The doctors ascribed the child’s deformity to an atavism.

Question 8

atheistic

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ADJ. /无神论/denying the existence of God. His atheistic remarks shocked the religious worshippers.

Question 9

atlas

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N. /地图集/a bound volume of maps, charts, or tables. Embarrassed at being unable to distinguish Slovenia from Slovakia, George W. finally consulted an atlas.

Question 10

atone

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V. /补偿；偿还/make amends for; pay for. He knew no way in which he could atone for his brutal crime.

Question 11

atrocity

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N. /暴行/brutal deed. In time of war, many atrocities are committed by invading armies.

Question 12

atrophy

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N. /萎缩，变得没用/wasting away. Polio victims need physiotherapy to prevent the atrophy of affected limbs. alsoV.

Question 13

attain

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V. /获得；完成/achieve or accomplish; gain. The scarecrow sought to attain one goal: he wished to obtain a brain.

Question 14

attentive

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ADJ. /专心的，专注的；全神贯注/alert and watchful; considerate; thoughtful. Spellbound, the attentive audience watched the final game of the tennis match, never taking their eyes from the ball. A cold wind sprang up; Stan’s attentive daughter slipped a sweater over his shoulders without distracting his attention from the game.

Question 15

attenuate

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V. /削弱/make thin; weaken. By withdrawing their forces, the generals hoped to attenuate the enemy lines.

Question 16

attest

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V. /证明/testify, bear witness. Having served as a member of the Grand Jury, I can attest that our system of indicting individuals is in need of improvement.

Question 17

attribute

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N. /属性/essential quality. His outstanding attribute was his kindness.

Question 18

attribute

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V. /归因于；解释/ascribe; explain. I attribute her success in science to the encouragement she received from her parents.

Question 19

attrition

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N. /裁员；磨损/gradual decrease in numbers; reduction in the work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment. In the 1960s urban churches suffered from attrition as members moved from the cities to the suburbs. Rather than fire staff members, church leaders followed a policy of attrition, allowing elderly workers to retire without replacing them.

Question 20

atypical

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ADJ. /非正常的，不正常/not normal. The child psychiatrist reassured Mrs. Keaton that playing doctor was not atypical behavior for a child of young Alex’s age. “Yes,” she replied, “but not charging for house calls!”

Question 21

audacious

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ADJ. /大胆的；鲁莽的/daring; bold. Audiences cheered as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia made their audacious, deathdefying leap to freedom, escaping Darth Vader’s troops. audacity, N.

Question 22

audit

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N. /核算，稽核/examination of accounts. When the bank examiners arrived to hold their annual audit, they discovered the embezzlements of the chief cashier. Also V.

Question 23

auditory

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ADJ. /听觉的/pertaining to the sense of hearing. Audrey suffered from auditory hallucinations: she thought Elvis was speaking to her from the Great Beyond.

Question 24

augment

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V. /增长/increase; add to. Armies augment their forces by calling up reinforcements; teachers augment their salaries by taking odd jobs.

Question 25

augury

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N. /占卜；预言/omen; prophecy. He interpreted the departure of the birds as an augury of evil. augur, V.

Question 26

august

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ADJ. /威严的；令人印象深刻的/impressive; majestic. Visiting the palace at Versailles, she was impressed by the august surroundings in which she found herself.

Question 27

aureole

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N. /日冕/sun's corona; halo. Many medieval paintings depict saintly characters with aureoles around their heads.

Question 28

auroral

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ADJ. /曙光的，极光的/pertaining to the aurora borealis. The auroral display was particularly spectacular that evening.

Question 29

auspicious

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ADJ. /幸运的，吉祥的/favoring success. With favorable weather conditions, it was an auspicious moment to set sail. Thomas, however, had doubts about sailing: a paranoid, he became suspicious whenever conditions seemed auspicious.

Question 30

austere

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ADJ. /严厉的；朴素的/forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented. The headmaster's austere demeanor tended to scare off the more timid students, who never visited his study willingly. The room reflected the man, austere and bare, like a monk's cell, with no touches of luxury to moderate its austerity.

Question 31

authenticate

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V. /鉴别/prove genuine. An expert was needed to authenticate the original Van Gogh painting, distinguishing it from its imitation.

Question 32

authoritarian

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ADJ. /独裁/subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will. The leaders of the authoritarian regime ordered the suppression of the democratic protest movement. After years of submitting to the will of her authoritarian father, Elizabeth Barrett ran away from home with the poet Robert Browning.

Question 33

authoritative

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ADJ. /权威；独裁/having the weight of authority; peremptory and dictatorial. Impressed by the young researcher's well-documented presentation, we accepted her analysis of the experiment as authoritative.

Question 34

autocratic

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ADJ. /独裁/having absolute, unchecked power; dictatorial. Someone accustomed to exercising authority may become autocratic if his or her power is unchecked. Dictators by definition are autocrats. Bosses who dictate behavior as well as letters can be autocrats too.

Question 35

automaton

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N. /机器人/mechanism that imitates actions of humans. Long before science fiction readers became aware of robots, writers were presenting stories of automatons who could outperform men.

Question 36

autonomous

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ADJ. /自治/self-governing. Although the University of California at Berkeley is just one part of the state university system, in many ways Cal Berkeley is autonomous, for it runs several programs that are not subject to outside control. autonomy, N.

Question 37

autopsy

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N. /验尸/examination of a dead body; post-mortem. The medical examiner ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Also V.

Question 38

auxiliary

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ADJ. /辅助的/helper, additional or subsidiary. To prepare for the emergency, they built an auxiliary power station. also N.

Question 39

avalanche

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N. /雪崩/great mass of falling snow and ice. The park ranger warned the skiers to stay on the main trails, where they would be in no danger of being buried beneath a sudden avalanche.

Question 40

avarice

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N. /贪婪，贪财/greediness for wealth. King Midas is a perfect example of avarice, for he was so greedy that he wished everything he touched would turn to gold.

Question 41

avenge

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V. /复仇/take vengeance for something (or on behalf of someone). Hamlet vowed he would avenge his father's murder and punish Claudius for his horrible crime.

Question 42

averse

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ADJ. /反对的/reluctant; disinclined. The reporter was averse to revealing the sources of his information.

Question 43

aversion

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N. /厌恶，抵制/firm dislike. Bert had an aversion to yuppies; Alex had an aversion to punks. Their mutual aversion was so great that they refused to speak to one another.

Question 44

avert

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V. /转移；防止/prevent; turn away. She averted her eyes from the dead cat on the highway.

Question 45

aviary

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N. /鸟舍/enclosure for birds. The aviary at the zoo held nearly 300 birds.

Question 46

avid

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ADJ. /贪婪/greedy; eager for. He was avid for learning and read everything he could get. avidity, N.

Question 47

avocation

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N. /副业，业余爱好/secondary or minor occupation. His hobby proved to be so fascinating and profitable that gradually he abandoned his regular occupation and concentrated on his avocation.

Question 48

avow

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V. /宣布/declare openly. Lana avowed that she never meant to steal Debbie's boyfriend, but no one believed her avowal of innocence.

Question 49

avuncular

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ADJ. /像伯父（叔叔）一样的/like an uncle. Avuncular pride did not prevent him from noticing his nephew's shortcomings.

Question 50

awe

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N. /敬畏/solemn wonder. The tourists gazed with awe at the tremendous expanse of the Grand Canyon.

Question 51

awry

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ADV. /扭曲的；歪曲的/distorted; crooked. He held his head awry, giving the impression that he had caught cold in his neck during the night. Also ADJ.

Question 52

axiom

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N. /公理，自明的道理/self-evident truth requiring no proof. Before a student can begin to think along the lines of Euclidean geometry, he must accept certain principles or axioms.

Question 53

azure

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ADJ. /天蓝/sky blue. Azure skies are indicative of good weather.

Question 54

babble

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V. /嘟囔/chatter idly. The little girl babbled about her doll. Also N.

Question 55

bacchanalian

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ADJ. /喝醉的，耍酒疯/drunken. Emperor Nero attended the bacchanalian orgy.

Question 56

badger

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V. /激怒，纠缠/pester; annoy. She was forced to change her telephone number because she was badgered by obscene phone calls.

Question 57

badinage

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N. /开玩笑，揶揄；取消/teasing conversation. Her friends at work greeted the news of her engagement with cheerful badinage.

Question 58

baffle

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V. /挫败/frustrate; perplex. The new code baffled the enemy agents.

Question 59

bait

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V. /欺负，玩弄，折磨/harass; tease. The school bully baited the smaller children, terrorizing them.

Question 60

baleful

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ADJ. /恶意的，有害的/deadly; having a malign influence; ominous. The fortune teller made baleful predictions of terrible things to come.

Question 61

balk

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V. /反对；阻止/foil or thwart; stop short; refuse to go on. When the warden learned that several inmates were planning to escape, he took steps to balk their attempt. However, he balked at punishing them by shackling them to the walls of their cells.

Question 62

ballast

Answer 62

N. /配重；沙袋/heavy substance used to add stability or weight. The ship was listing badly to one side; it was necessary to shift the ballast in the hold to get her back on an even keel. Also V.

Question 63

balm

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N. /（止痛的）安慰物/something that relieves pain. Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Question 64

balmy

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ADJ. /柔和的；芳香的/mild; fragrant. A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.

Question 65

banal

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ADJ. /平凡，陈腐，老生常谈/hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality. The hack writer's worn-out clich6s made his comic sketch seem banal. He even resorted to the banality of having someone slip on a banana peel!

Question 66

bandy

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V. /传话/discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly. While the president was happy to bandy patriotic generalizations with anyone who would listen to him, he refused to bandy words with unfriendly reporters at the press conference.

Question 67

bane

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N. /祸根/cause of ruin; curse. Lucy's little brother was the bane of her existence: his attempts to make her life miserable worked so well that she could have poisoned him with ratsbane for having such a baneful effect.

Question 68

bantering

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ADJ. /可笑的，嘲弄的/good-natured ridiculing. They resented his bantering remarks because they thought he was being sarcastic.

Question 69

barb

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N. /鱼钩，钩状物/sharp projection from fishhook, etc.; openly cutting remark. If you were a politician, which would you prefer, being caught on the barb of a fishhook or being subjected to malicious verbal barbs? Who can blame the president if he's happier fishing than back in the capitol listening to his critics' barbed remarks?

Question 70

assessment

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N. /评价，评估；判断/evaluation; judgment. Your SAT I score plays a part in the admission committee's assessment of you as an applicant.

Question 71

assiduous

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ADJ. /勤奋/diligent. He was assiduous, working at this task for weeks before he felt satisfied with his results. assiduity, N.

Question 72

assimilate

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V. /吸收；同化/absorb; cause to become homogeneous. The manner in which the United States was able to assimilate the hordes of immigrants during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will always be a source of pride to Americans. The immigrants eagerly assimilated new ideas and customs; they soaked them up, the way plants soak up water.

Question 73

assuage

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V. /减轻（痛苦）；满足（饥渴）；安慰/ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger). Jilted by Jane, Dick tried to assuage his heartache by indulging in ice cream. One gallon later, he had assuaged his appetite but not his grief.

Question 74

assumption

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N. /假定，设想；采取/something taken for granted; taking over or taking possession of. The young princess made the foolish assumption that the regent would not object to her assumption of power. assume,V.

Question 75

assurance

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N. /担保，保证；确定；自信/promise or pledge; certainty; self-confidence. When Guthrie gave Guinness his assurance that rehearsals were going well, he spoke with such assurance that Guinness felt relieved. assure,V.

Question 76

asteroid

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N. /小行星/small planet. Asteroids have become commonplace to the readers of interstellar travel stories in science fiction magazines.

Question 77

astigmatism

Answer 77

N. /散光/eye defect that prevents proper focus. As soon as his parents discovered that the boy suffered from astigmatism, they took him to the optometrist for corrective glasses.