Barron 3500 SAT List 8

Question 0

canvass

Answer 0

V. /调查；投票/determine votes, etc. After canvassing the sentiments of his constituents, the congressman was confident that he represented the majority opinion of his district. also N.

Question 1

canto

Answer 1

N. /（长诗的）分篇/division of a long poem. Dante’s poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy is divided into cantos.

Question 2

capacious

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DJ. /宽敞的/spacious. In the capacious rotunda of the railroad terminal, thousands of travelers lingered while waiting for their train.

Question 3

capacity

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N. /能力；角色/mental or physical ability; role; ability to accommodate. Mike had the capacity to handle several jobs at once. In his capacity as president of SelecTronics he marketed an electronic dictionary with a capacity of 200,000 words.

Question 4

capitulate

Answer 4

V. /投降/surrender. The enemy was warned to capitulate or face annihilation.

Question 5

caprice

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N. /反复无常；一时幻想；奇怪的想法/sudden, unexpected fancy; whim. On a caprice, Jack tried drag-racing, but paid the price-his father took his Chevy Caprice away from him.

Question 6

capricious

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ADJ. /反复无常的/unpredictable; fickle. The storm was capricious: it changed course constantly. Jill was capricious, too: she changed boyfriends almost as often as she changed clothes.

Question 7

caption

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N. /标题/title; chapter heading; text under illustration. The captions that accompany The Far Side cartoons are almost as funny as the pictures. alsoV.

Question 8

captivate

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V. /迷住；迷惑/charm or enthrall. Bart and Lisa were captivated by their new nanny’s winning manner.

Question 9

carat

Answer 9

N. /克拉；开；K/unit of weight for precious stones; measure of fineness of gold. He gave her a three-carat diamond mounted in an eighteen-carat gold band.

Question 10

cardinal

Answer 10

ADJ. /主要的/chief. If you want to increase your word power, the cardinal rule of vocabulary-building is to read.

Question 11

cardiologist

Answer 11

N. /心脏病专家/doctor specializing in the heart. When the pediatrician noticed Philip had a slight heart murmur, she referred him to a cardiologist for further tests.

Question 12

careen

Answer 12

V. /倾斜/lurch; sway from side to side. The taxicab careened wildly as it rounded the corner.

Question 13

caricature

Answer 13

N. /歪曲；漫画；讽刺画/distortion; burlesque. The caricatures he drew always emphasized a personal weakness of the people he burlesqued. alsoV.

Question 14

carnage

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N. /残杀；大屠杀/destruction of life. The film The Killing Fields vividly depicts the carnage wreaked by Pol Pot’s followers in Cambodia.

Question 15

carnal

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ADJ. /肉体的；欲望的/fleshly. Is the public more interested in carnal pleasures than in spiritual matters? Compare the number of people who read Playboy daily to the number of those who read the Bible or Koran every day.

Question 16

carnivorous

Answer 16

ADJ. /食肉的/meat-eating. The lion’s a carnivorous beast. A hunk of meat makes up his feast. A cow is not a carnivore. She likes the taste of grain, not gore.

Question 17

carping

Answer 17

ADJ. /挑剔的，吹毛求疵/finding fault. A carping critic is a nit-picker: he loves to point out flaws. If you don’t like this definition, feel free to carp.

Question 18

cartographer

Answer 18

N. /制图者，制地图的人/map-maker. Though not a professional cartographer, Tolkien was able to construct a map of his fictional world.

Question 19

cascade

Answer 19

N. /小瀑布/small waterfall. We were too tired to appreciate the beauty of the many cascades because we had to detour around them to avoid being drenched by the water cascading down.

Question 20

castigate

Answer 20

V. /严厉批评；惩罚/criticize severely; punish. When the teacher threatened that she would castigate the mischievous boys if they didn’t behave, they shaped up in a hurry.

Question 21

casualty

Answer 21

N. /严重的事故；伤亡/serious or fatal accident. The number of automotive casualties on this holiday weekend was high.

Question 22

cataclysm

Answer 22

N. /巨变；剧变；灾难/upheaval; deluge. A cataclysm such as the French Revolution affects all countries. cataclysmic,ADJ.

Question 23

catalyst

Answer 23

N. /催化剂/agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged. Many chemical reactions cannot take place without the presence of a catalyst.

Question 24

catapult

Answer 24

N. /弹弓；弹舐器/slingshot; a hurling machine. Airplanes are sometimes launched from battleships by catapults. alsoV.

Question 25

cataract

Answer 25

N. /大瀑布；白内障/great waterfall; eye abnormality. She gazed with awe at the mighty cataract known as Niagara Falls.

Question 26

catastrophe

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N. /灾难/calamity; disaster. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a catastrophe that destroyed most of the city. A similar earthquake striking today could have even more catastrophic results.

Question 27

catcall

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N. /嘘声/shout of disapproval; boo. Every major league pitcher has off days during which he must learn to ignore the catcalls and angry hisses from the crowd.

Question 28

catechism

Answer 28

N. /教义问答手册；FAQ,Q&A/book for religious instruction; instruction by question and answer. He taught by engaging his pupils in a catechism until they gave him the correct answer.

Question 29

categorical

Answer 29

ADJ. /无条件；直截了当/without exceptions; unqualified; absolute. Though the captain claimed he was never, never sick at sea, he finally had to qualify his categorical denial: he was "hardly ever" sick at sea.

Question 30

cater to

Answer 30

V. /迎合/supply something desired (whether good or bad). The chef was happy to cater to the tastes of his highly sophisticated clientele. Critics condemned the movie industry for catering to the public's ever-increasing appetite for violence.

Question 31

catharsis

Answer 31

N. /导泻，通便；疏泄/purging or cleansing of any passage of the body. Aristotle maintained that tragedy created a catharsis by purging the soul of base concepts.

Question 32

catholic

Answer 32

ADJ. /一般的，普遍的；天主教/broadly sympathetic; liberal. He was extremely catholic in his taste and read everything he could find in the library.

Question 33

caucus

Answer 33

N. /核心小组会议（秘密）/private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy. At the opening of Congress, the members of the Democratic Party held a caucus to elect the Majority Leader of the House and the Party Whip.

Question 34

caulk

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V. /填；补漏/make watertight by filling in cracks. Jack had to caulk the tiles in the shower stall to stop the leak into the basement below.

Question 35

causal

Answer 35

ADJ. /因果关系的/implying a cause-and-effect relationship. The psychologist maintained there was a causal relationship between the nature of one's early childhood experiences and one's adult personality. causality, N.

Question 36

caustic

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ADJ. /腐蚀；挖苦/burning; sarcastically biting. The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.

Question 37

cavalcade

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N. /队伍/procession; parade. As described by Chaucer, the cavalcade of Canterbury pilgrims was a motley group.

Question 38

cavalier

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ADJ. /随便；傲慢/offhand or casual; haughty. The disguised prince resented the cavalier way in which the palace guards treated him. How dared they handle a member of the royal family so unceremoniously!

Question 39

cavil

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V. /挑剔/make frivolous objections. It's fine when you make sensible criticisms, but it really bugs me when you cavil about unimportant details. also N.

Question 40

cede

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V. /放弃；屈服于；投降/yield (title, territory) to; surrender formally. Eventually the descendants of England's Henry II were forced to cede their French territories to the King of France.

Question 41

celebrated

Answer 41

ADJ. /名人/famous; well-known. Thanks to their race to break Roger Maris's home-run record, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are two of America's most celebrated baseball players. celebrity, N.

Question 42

celerity

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N. /速度/speed; rapidity. Hamlet resented his mother's celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death.

Question 43

celestial

Answer 43

ADJ. /天体的/heavenly. She spoke of the celestial joys that awaited virtuous souls in the hereafter.

Question 44

celibate

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ADJ. /未婚的，独身的/unmarried; abstaining from sexual intercourse. The perennial bachelor vowed to remain celibate. celibacy, N.

Question 45

censor

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N. /审查/overseer of morals; person who reads to eliminate inappropriate remarks. Soldiers dislike having their mail read by a censor but understand the need for this precaution. alsoV.

Question 46

censorious

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ADJ. /批判的/critical. Censorious people delight in casting blame.

Question 47

censure

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V. /责怪；批评/blame; criticize. The senator was censured for behavior inappropriate to a member of Congress. also N.

Question 48

centigrade

Answer 48

ADJ. /华氏/measure of temperature used widely in Europe. On the centigrade thermometer, the freezing point of water is zero degrees.

Question 49

centrifugal

Answer 49

ADJ. /离心；放舐/radiating; departing from the center. Many automatic drying machines remove excess moisture from clothing by centrifugal force.

Question 50

centripetal

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ADJ. /向心/tending toward the center. Does centripetal force or the force of gravity bring orbiting bodies to the earth's surface?

Question 51

centurion

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N. /百夫长/Roman army officer. Because he was in command of a company of one hundred soldiers, he was called a centurion.

Question 52

cerebral

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ADJ. /脑的；智力的/pertaining to the brain or intellect. The content of philosophical works is cerebral in nature and requires much thought.

Question 53

cerebration

Answer 53

N. /思考/thought. Mathematics problems sometimes require much cerebration.

Question 54

ceremonious

Answer 54

ADJ. /隆重的/marked by formality. Ordinary dress would be inappropriate at so ceremonious an affair.

Question 55

certitude

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N. /确实/certainty. Though there was no certitude of his getting the job, Lou thought he had a good chance of doing so.

Question 56

cessation

Answer 56

N. /停止/stoppage. The airline's employees threatened a cessation of all work if management failed to meet their demands. cease,V.

Question 57

cession

Answer 57

N. /给与；割让/yielding to another; ceding. The cession of Alaska to the United States is discussed in this chapter.

Question 58

chafe

Answer 58

V. /摩擦；擦热/warm by rubbing; make sore (by rubbing). Chilled, he chafed his hands before the fire. The collar of his school uniform chafed Tom's neck, but not as much the school's strict rules chafed his spirit. also N.

Question 59

chaff

Answer 59

N. /废物；糠；假货；开玩笑；打趣/worthless products of an endeavor. When you separate the wheat from the chaff, be sure you throw out the chaff.

Question 60

chaffing

Answer 60

ADJ. /开玩笑/bantering; joking. Sometimes Chad's flippant, chaffing remarks annoy us. Still, Chad's chaffing keeps us laughing. also N.

Question 61

chagrin

Answer 61

N. /伤自尊；委屈/vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride); disappointment. Embarrassed by his parents' shabby, working-class appearance, Doug felt their visit to his school would bring him nothing but chagrin. Someone filled with chagrin doesn't grin: he's too mortified.

Question 62

chalice

Answer 62

N. /圣餐杯/goblet; consecrated cup. In a small room adjoining the cathedral, many ornately decorated chalices made by the most famous European goldsmiths were on display.

Question 63

chameleon

Answer 63

N. /变色龙/lizard that changes color in different situations. Like the chameleon, he assumed the political thinking of every group he met.