Barron 3500 SAT List 7

Question 0

blurt

Answer 0

V. /脱口而出/utter impulsively. Before she could stop him, he blurted out the news.

Question 1

blunder

Answer 1

N. /错误/error. The criminal’s fatal blunder led to his capture. alsoV.

Question 2

bluster

Answer 2

V. /咆哮；吓唬/blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully. “Let the stormy winds bluster,” cried Jack, “we’ll set sail tonight.” Jill let Jack bluster. she wasn’t going anywhere, no matter what he said.

Question 3

bode

Answer 3

V. /预兆/foreshadow; portend. The gloomy skies and the sulphurous odors from the mineral springs seemed to bode evil to those who settled in the area.

Question 4

bogus

Answer 4

ADJ. /赝品/counterfeit; not authentic. The police quickly found the distributors of the bogus twenty-dollar bills.

Question 5

bohemian

Answer 5

ADJ. /不合习俗；放荡不羁/unconventional (in an artistic way). Gertrude Stein ran off to Paris to live an eccentric, bohemian life with her writer friends. Oakland was not bohemian: it was too bourgeois, too middle-class.

Question 6

boisterous

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ADJ. /狂暴；喧嚣/violent; rough; noisy. The unruly crowd became even more boisterous when he tried to quiet them.

Question 7

bolster

Answer 7

V. /支持，增援/support; reinforce. The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolstertheir arguments.

Question 8

bolt

Answer 8

N. /门闩；螺钉；布匹的长度/door bar; fastening pin or screw; length of fabric. The carpenter shut the workshop door, sliding the heavy metal bolt into place. He sorted through his toolbox for the nuts and bolts and nails he would need. Before he cut into the bolt of canvas, he measured how much fabric he would need.

Question 9

bolt

Answer 9

V. /猛冲，上门闩，囫囵吞下/dash or dart off; fasten (a door); gobble down. Jack was set to bolt out the front door, but Jill bolted the door. “Eat your breakfast,” she said, “don’t bolt your food.”

Question 10

bombardment

Answer 10

N. /轰击（导弹）/attack with missiles. The enemy bombardment demolished the town. Members of the opposition party bombarded the prime minister with questions about the enemy attack.

Question 11

bombastic

Answer 11

ADJ. /夸张的/pompous; using inflated language. Puffed up with conceit, the orator spoke in such a bombastic manner that we longed to deflate him. bombast, N.

Question 12

booming

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ADJ. /快速增长的，欣欣向荣；深刻的/deep and resonant; flourishing, thriving. “Who needs a microphone?” cried the mayor in his booming voice. Cheerfully he boomed out that, thanks to him, the city’s economy was booming. boom,V.

Question 13

boon

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N. /恩惠，福利/blessing; benefit. The recent rains that filled our empty reservoirs were a boon to the whole community.

Question 14

boorish

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ADJ. /粗鲁；笨拙/rude; clumsy; ungentlemanly. Natasha was embarrassed by her fellow spy’s boorish behavior. “If you cannot act like a gentleman, Boris, go back to Russia: espionage is no job for clumsy boors.” boor, N.

Question 15

boundless

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ADJ. /无限的/unlimited; vast. Mike’s energy was boundless: the greater the challenge, the more vigorously he tackled the job.

Question 16

bountiful

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ADJ. /富足的；慷慨的/abundant; graciously generous. Thanks to the good harvest, we had a bountiful supply of food and we could be as bountiful as we liked in distributing food to the needy.

Question 17

bourgeois

Answer 17

ADJ. /中产阶级；平庸的/middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional. Technically, anyone who belongs to the middle class is bourgeois, but, given the word’s connotations, most people resent it if you call them that.

Question 18

bovine

Answer 18

ADJ. /牛的；迟钝的；耐心的/cowlike; placid and dull. Nothing excites Esther; even when she won the state lottery, she still preserved her air of bovine calm.

Question 19

bowdlerize

Answer 19

V. /删除/expurgate. After the film editors had bowdlerized the language in the script, the motion picture’s rating was changed from “R” to “PG.”

Question 20

boycott

Answer 20

V. /抵制/refrain from buying or using. To put pressure on grape growers to stop using pesticides that harmed the farm workers’ health, Cesar Chavez called for consumers to boycott grapes.

Question 21

braggart

Answer 21

N. /自夸，吹嘘/boaster. Modest by nature, she was no braggart, preferring to let her accomplishments speak for themselves.

Question 22

brandish

Answer 22

V. /挥舞/wave around; flourish. Alarmed, Doctor Watson wildly brandished his gun until Holmes told him to put the thing away before he shot himself.

Question 23

bravado

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N. /虚张声势/swagger; assumed air of defiance. The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.

Question 24

brawn

Answer 24

N. /强壮的肌肉/muscular strength; sturdiness. It takes brawn to become a champion weightlifter. brawny,ADJ.

Question 25

brazen

Answer 25

ADJ. /厚颜无耻；傲慢/insolent. Her brazen contempt for authority angered the officials.

Question 26

breach

Answer 26

N. /违约；突破；打破/breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap. Jill sued Jack for breach of promise, claiming he had broken his promise to marry her. They found a breach in the enemy's fortifications and penetrated their lines. alsoV.

Question 27

breadth

Answer 27

N. /宽度/width; extent. We were impressed by the breadth of her knowledge.

Question 28

brevity

Answer 28

N. /简短，短暂/conciseness. Brevity is essential when you send a telegram or cablegram; you are charged for every word.

Question 29

brindled

Answer 29

ADJ. /有条纹或斑点的/tawny or grayish with streaks or spots. He was disappointed in the litter because the puppies were brindled, he had hoped for animals of a uniform color.

Question 30

bristling

Answer 30

ADJ. /竖立的/rising like bristles; showing irritation. The dog stood there, bristling with anger.

Question 31

brittle

Answer 31

ADJ. /易碎的；困难的/easily broken; difficult. My employer's self-control was as brittle as an egg-shell. Her brittle personality made it difficult for me to get along with her.

Question 32

broach

Answer 32

V. /介绍，提出，引见/introduce; open up. Jack did not even try to broach the subject of religion with his in-laws. If you broach a touchy subject, it may cause a breach.

Question 33

brochure

Answer 33

N. /小册子/pamphlet. This brochure on farming was issued by the Department of Agriculture.

Question 34

brooch

Answer 34

N. /胸针/ornamental clasp. She treasured the brooch because it was an heirloom.

Question 35

browbeat

Answer 35

V. /吓唬/bully; intimidate. Billy resisted Ted's attempts browbeat him into handing over his lunch money.

Question 36

browse

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V. /吃草；浏览/graze; skim or glance at casually. "How now, brown cow, browsing in the green, green grass." I remember lines of verse that I came across while browsing through the poetry section of the local bookstore.

Question 37

brunt

Answer 37

N. /冲击/main impact or shock. Tom Sawyer claimed credit for painting the fence, but the brunt of the work fell on others. However, he bore the brunt of Aunt Polly's complaints when the paint began to peel.

Question 38

brusque

Answer 38

ADJ. /唐图；直率；粗暴无礼/blunt; abrupt. Was Bruce too brusque when he brushed off Bob's request with a curt "Not now!"?

Question 39

buccaneer

Answer 39

N. /海盗/pirate. At Disneyland the Pirates of the Caribbean sing a song about their lives as bloody buccaneers.

Question 40

bucolic

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ADJ. /田园的/rustic; pastoral. Filled with browsing cows and bleating sheep, the meadow was a charmingly bucolic sight.

Question 41

buffet

Answer 41

N. /自助餐/table with food set out for people to serve themselves; meal at which people help themselves to food that's been set out. Please convey the soufflé on the tray to the buffet. (Buffet rhymes with tray.)

Question 42

buffet

Answer 42

V. /殴打，斗殴/slap; batter; knock about. To buffet something is to rough it up. (Buffet rhymes with Muffett.) Was Miss Muffett buffeted by the crowd on the way to the buffet tray?

Question 43

buffoonery

Answer 43

N. /滑稽的/clowning. In the Ace Ventura movies, Jim Carrey's buffoonery was hilarious: like Bozo the Clown, he's a natural buffoon.

Question 44

bullion

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N. /金条，银条/gold and silver in the form of bars. Much bullion is stored in the vaults at Fort Knox.

Question 45

bulwark

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N. /壁垒/earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends. The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.

Question 46

bumptious

Answer 46

ADJ. /盲目自大/self-assertive. His classmates called him a show-off because of his bumptious airs.

Question 47

bungalow

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N. /小平房/small cottage. Every summer we rent a bungalow on Cape Cod for our vacation home. The rent is high, the roof is low-it's a basic bungalow.

Question 48

bungle

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V. /搞砸/mismanage; blunder. Don't botch this assignment, Bumstead; if you bungle the job, you're fired!

Question 49

buoyant

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ADJ. /可漂浮的，乐观的/able to float; cheerful and optimistic. When the boat capsized, her buoyant life jacket kept Jody afloat. Scrambling back on board, she was still in a buoyant mood, certain that despite the delay she'd win the race.

Question 50

bureaucracy

Answer 50

N. /官僚机构/over-regulated administrative system marked by red tape. The Internal Revenue Service is the ultimate bureaucracy. taxpayers wasted so much paper filling out IRS forms that the IRS bureaucrats printed up a new set of rules requiring taxpayers to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act.

Question 51

burgeon

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V. /发芽，成长/grow forth; send out buds. In the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promise of the beauty that is to come.

Question 52

burlesque

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V. /作秀，滑稽/give an imitation that ridicules. In Spaceballs, Rick Moranis burlesques Darth Vader of Star Wars, outrageously parodying Vader's stiff walk and hollow voice.

Question 53

burly

Answer 53

ADJ. /魁伟，结实/husky; muscular. The burly mover lifted the packing crate with ease.

Question 54

burnish

Answer 54

V. /擦拭/make shiny by rubbing; polish. The maid burnished the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamplight.

Question 55

bustle

Answer 55

V. /喧嚣，繁忙，熙熙攘攘/move about energetically; teem. David and the children bustled about the house getting in each other's way as they tried to pack for the camping trip. The whole house bustled with activity.

Question 56

buttress

Answer 56

V. /支持/support; prop up. The attorney came up with several far-fetched arguments in a vain attempt to buttress his weak case. also N.

Question 57

buxom

Answer 57

ADJ. /丰满；充满活力；欢快/plump; vigorous; jolly. The soldiers remembered the buxom nurse who had always been so pleasant to them.

Question 58

cabal

Answer 58

N. /内阁/small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests. The cabal was defeated when their scheme was discovered.

Question 59

cache

Answer 59

N. /藏身之处/hiding place. The detectives followed the suspect until he led them to the cache where he had stored his loot. He had cached the cash in a bag for trash: it was a hefty sum.

Question 60

cacophonous

Answer 60

ADJ. /不和谐/discordant; inharmonious. Do the students in the orchestra enjoy the cacophonous sounds they make when they're tuning up? I don't know how they can stand the racket. cacophony, N.

Question 61

cadaver

Answer 61

N. /尸体/corpse. In some states, it is illegal to dissect cadavers.

Question 62

cadaverous

Answer 62

ADJ. /尸体似的，苍白的/like a corpse; pale. By his cadaverous appearance, we could see how the disease had ravaged him.

Question 63

cadence

Answer 63

N. /平仄，重音/rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat. Marching down the road, the troops sang out, following the cadence set by the sergeant.

Question 64

cajole

Answer 64

V. /哄骗，勾引/coax; wheedle. Diane tried to cajole her father into letting her drive the family car. cajolery, N.

Question 65

calamity

Answer 65

N. /灾难，不幸/disaster; misery. As news of the calamity spread, offers of relief poured in to the stricken community.

Question 66

calculated

Answer 66

ADJ. /预先计划好的，算好的；合适的/deliberately planned; likely. Lexy's choice of clothes to wear to the debate tournament was carefully calculated. Her conventional suit was one calculated to appeal to the conservative judges.

Question 67

caldron

Answer 67

N. /大锅/large kettle. "Why, Mr. Crusoe," said the savage heating the giant caldron, "we'd love to have you for dinner!"

Question 68

caliber

Answer 68

N. /能力；品质/ability; quality. Einstein's cleaning the blackboards again? Albert, quit it! A man of your caliber shouldn't have to do such menial tasks.

Question 69

calligraphy

Answer 69

N. /漂亮的书法/beautiful writing; excellent penmanship. As we examine ancient manuscripts, we become impressed with the calligraphy of the scribes.

Question 70

callous

Answer 70

ADJ. /硬心肠的，无情的/hardened; unfeeling. He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards. callus, N.

Question 71

callow

Answer 71

ADJ. /年幼，稚嫩；无经验/youthful; immature; inexperienced. As a freshman, Jack was sure he was a man of the world; as a sophomore, he made fun of freshmen as callow youths. In both cases, his judgment showed just how callow he was.

Question 72

calorific

Answer 72

ADJ. /产热的/heat-producing. Coal is much more calorific than green wood.

Question 73

calumny

Answer 73

N. /诽谤；中伤/malicious misrepresentation; slander. He could endure his financial failure, but he could not bear the calumny that his foes heaped upon him.

Question 74

camaraderie

Answer 74

N. /友情/good-fellowship. What he loved best about his job was the sense of camaraderie he and his coworkers shared.

Question 75

cameo

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N. /贝壳上的浮雕；特写（演员）/shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film. Don't bother buying cameos from the street peddlers in Rome: the carvings they sell are clumsy jobs. Did you enjoy Bill Murray's cameo in Little Shop of Horrors? He was onscreen for only a minute, but he cracked me up.

Question 76

camouflage

Answer 76

V. /伪装/disguise; conceal. In order to rescue Han Solo, Princess Leia camouflaged herself in the helmet and cloak of a space bandit.

Question 77

candor

Answer 77

N. /开诚布公；坦率/frankness; open honesty. Jack can carry candor too far: when he told Jill his honest opinion of her, she nearly slapped his face. candid,ADJ.

Question 78

canine

Answer 78

ADJ. /狗的/related to dogs; dog-like. Some days the canine population of Berkeley seems almost to outnumber the human population,

Question 79

canny

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ADJ. /谨慎的；节约的/shrewd; thrifty. The canny Scotsman was more than a match for the swindlers.

Question 80

cant

Answer 80

N. /伪善；黑话/insincere expressions of piety; jargon of thieves. Shocked by news of the minister's extramarital love affairs, the worshippers dismissed his talk about the sacredness of marriage as mere cant. Cant is a form of hypocrisy: those who can, pray; those who cant, pretend.

Question 81

cantankerous

Answer 81

ADJ. /脾气坏；易发怒/ill humored; irritable. Constantly complaining about his treatment and refusing to cooperate with the hospital staff, he was a cantankerous patient.

Question 82

cantata

Answer 82

N. /大合唱；康塔塔/story set to music, to be sung by a chorus. The choral society sang the new cantata composed by its leader.

Question 83

canter

Answer 83

N. /慢跑/slow gallop. Because the racehorse had outdistanced its competition so easily, the reporter wrote that the race was won in a canter. also V.