Barron 3500 SAT List 50 Flashcards
(70 cards)
volition
N. /意志/act of making a conscious choice. She selected this dress of her own volition.
volatile
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.
voluble
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!
voluminous
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.
voluptuous
ADJ. /令人满足的/gratifying the senses. The nobility during the Renaissance led voluptuous lives.
voracious
ADJ. /贪婪的；狼吞虎咽的/ravenous. The wolf is a voracious animal, its hunger never satisfied.
vortex
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.
vouchsafe
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.
voyeur
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.
vulnerable
ADJ. /易受攻击的/susceptible to wounds. His opponents could not harm Achilles, who was vulnerable only in his heel.
waffle
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.
waft
V. /飘荡；信号/moved gently by wind or waves. Daydreaming, he gazed at the leaves that wafted past his window.
waggish
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.
waif
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.
waive
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.
wake
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.
wallow
V. /打滚；沉湎；堕落/roll in; indulge in; become helpless. The hip¬popotamus loves to wallow in the mud.
wan
ADJ. /苍白的/having a pale or sickly color; pallid. Suckling asked, “Why so pale and wan, fond lover?”
wane
V. /减少；变弱/decrease in size or strength; draw gradually to an end. When lit, does a wax candle wane?
wanton
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.
warble
V. /颤声轻唱；鸟鸣/sing; babble. Every morning the birds warbled outside her window. also N.
warrant
V. /授权；证明；批准/justify; authorize. Before the judge issues the injunction, you must convince her this action is warranted.
warranty
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.
wary
ADJ. /机警的；小心的/very cautious. The spies grew wary as they approached the sentry.
