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标题: 推荐: SAT OG 词汇总结版 (1) [打印本页]

作者: perfectday6    时间: 2009-9-15 17:27
标题: 推荐: SAT OG 词汇总结版 (1)
Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 1
Adulation   worship; great praise
Amiable  friendly, lovable
Arable  can be cultivated ("arable land")
Articulation  1. joining, 2. speaking clearly
Autocrat  absolute ruler; dictator
Bountiful  generous
Callous  cruel; hard and unfeeling
Cerebral  concerned with thinking
Compendious  containing a lot in a small space/few words
Conciliatory  bringing together; ending a dispute
Connoisseurs  experts with good taste/judgment
Convivial  sociable
Corpulence  being fat
Dearth  shortage
Debacles  disasters
Demonstrative  expressing emotion freely
Depreciatory  devaluing; criticizing
Facile  over-simplified
Floridity  1. floweriness in language, 2. redness
Haranguing  attacking verbally
Heterogeneity  variety; non-uniformity
Histrionic  melodramatic; expressing exaggerated emotion
Imperious  in a commanding manner
Indulgent  kindly; pampering
Inscrutable  not east to comprehend
Insufferable  cannot be tolerated
Insular  narrow-minded
Intemperate  not moderate; excessive
Intonation  tone of voice
Lavish  1. (verb) to spend freely, 2. (adj.) opulent; costing a lot
Litigious  seeking legal remedies
Magnanimous  generous minded; big-hearted
Mandatory  compulsory
Momentous  of great importance
Nemesis  fate, doom
Opacity  lack of transparency; being opaque
Palliative  something that makes better but does not cure
Peer  1. (noun) an equal, 2. (verb) to look closely at
Profundity  depth (of ideas/thought)
Radical  revolutionary
Redolent  smelling of (literal or metaphoric)
Reprehensible  very bad
Robust  strong and sturdy
Solicitous  expressing care and concern
Somber  gloomy
Succulent  juicy
Sycophants  toadies; flatterers
Therapeutic  medicinal
Thwarted  prevented
Toadies  sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers
Undermined  weakened
Viscous  thick and sticky
Wistful  sad, yearning; longing in a thoughtful way
Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 2
Advocate  support
Ambiguous  vague
Animosity  hostility; hatred
Boorishness  rudeness; ill-mannered behavior
Censure  blame; criticize
Concord  agreement
Conflagration  big fire
Consecrated  dedicated; made holy
Consummate  supremely good
Contagious  passed on through touch; infectious
Cursory  superficial
Dalliance  non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something
Deleterious  harmful
Disparaging  critical
Dubious  doubtful
Equitable  fair and equal
Eulogy  praise
Fastidious  very fussy; excessively concerned (esp. about cleanliness)
Fidelity  faithfulness; loyalty
Formidable  inspiring awe
Futile  useless; waste of time and effort
Futility  uselessness
Holistic  whole; entire (Holistic viewpoint = seeing things as a whole)
Idiosyncratic  quirky; eccentric; unique to an individual
Ineffable  can’t be expressed in words
Infelicity  unsuitability; inappropriateness
Integrity  honor; honesty
Intermittent  on and off; not continuous
Judicious  fair; wise
Legitimate  to make legal; give approval to
Mercenary  seeking money above all else
Meticulous  thorough; taking care of details
Petulant  sulky
Polarized  divided into two extremes
Pragmatism  practicality
Presumptive  presumed
Propensity  tendency; leaning’ predilection
Prosaic  ordinary
Quelled  suppressed
Regressive  moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)
Remiss  neglectful
Rhetoric  persuasive language
Sedulous  thorough; eager
Sermonized  gave moral lecture
Shroud  1. a cover for dead body, 2. to cover
Steadfastness  loyalty; firmness of purpose
Temporize  put off; procrastinate
Treacly  too sweet; over sentimental
Vacillated  wavered; hesitated
Vindication  proving right
Vindictive  seeking revenge




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