Barrons 3500 B

Question 1

buffet

Answer 1

N. /自助餐/table with food set out for people to serve them?selves; 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 2

buffet

Answer 2

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

Question 3

buffoonery

Answer 3

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 4

bullion

Answer 4

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

Question 5

bulwark

Answer 5

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

Question 6

bumptious

Answer 6

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

Question 7

bungalow

Answer 7

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

Question 8

bungle

Answer 8

V. /搞砸/mismanage; blunder. Don’t botch this assign?ment, Bumstead; if you bungle the job, you’re fired!

Question 9

buoyant

Answer 9

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 10

bureaucracy

Answer 10

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 fill?ing out IRS forms that the IRS bureaucrats printed up a new set of rules requiring taxpayers to comply with the Paper?work Reduction Act.

Question 11

burgeon

Answer 11

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 12

burlesque

Answer 12

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

Question 13

burly

Answer 13

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

Question 14

burnish

Answer 14

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

Question 15

bustle

Answer 15

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 16

buttress

Answer 16

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 17

buxom

Answer 17

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 18

cabal

Answer 18

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

Question 19

cache

Answer 19

N. /藏身之处/hiding place. The detectives followed the sus?pect 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 20

cacophonous

Answer 20

ADJ. /不和谐/discordant; inharmonious. Do the stu?dents 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 21

cadaver

Answer 21

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

Question 22

cadaverous

Answer 22

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 23

cadence

Answer 23

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

Question 24

cajole

Answer 24

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

Question 25

calamity

Answer 25

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

Question 26

calculated

Answer 26

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 27

caldron

Answer 27

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

Question 28

caliber

Answer 28

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

Question 29

calligraphy

Answer 29

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 30

callous

Answer 30

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 suffer?ing in the wards. callus, N.

Question 31

callow

Answer 31

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

Question 32

calorific

Answer 32

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

Question 33

calumny

Answer 33

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 34

camaraderie

Answer 34

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

Question 35

cameo

Answer 35

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 36

camouflage

Answer 36

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 37

candor

Answer 37

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

Question 38

canine

Answer 38

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

Question 39

canny

Answer 39

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

Question 40

cant

Answer 40

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 41

cantankerous

Answer 41

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

Question 42

cantata

Answer 42

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 43

canter

Answer 43

N. /慢跑/slow gallop. Because the racehorse had outdis?tanced its competition so easily, the reporter wrote that the race was won in a canter. alsoV.

Question 44

canto

Answer 44

N. /（长诗的）分篇/division of a long poem. Dante's poetic master?piece The Divine Comedy is divided into cantos.

Question 45

canvass

Answer 45

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

Question 46

capacious

Answer 46

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

Question 47

Capacity

Answer 47

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 48

capitulate

Answer 48

V. /投降/surrender. The enemy was warned to capitu?late or face annihilation.

Question 49

caprice

Answer 49

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 50

capricious

Answer 50

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

Question 51

caption

Answer 51

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 52

captivate

Answer 52

V. /迷住；迷惑/charm or enthrall. Bart and Lisa were capti?vated by their new nanny's winning manner.

Question 53

carat

Answer 53

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 54

cardinal

Answer 54

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

Question 55

cardiologist

Answer 55

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 56

careen

Answer 56

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

Question 57

caricature

Answer 57

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

Question 58

carnage

Answer 58

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 59

carnal

Answer 59

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 60

carnivorous

Answer 60

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 61

*carping

Answer 61

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 62

cartographer

Answer 62

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 63

cascade

Answer 63

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

Question 64

castigate

Answer 64

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 65

casualty

Answer 65

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

Question 66

cataclysm

Answer 66

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

Question 67

catalyst

Answer 67

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 68

catapult

Answer 68

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

Question 69

cataract

Answer 69

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

Question 70

catastrophe

Answer 70

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 71

catcall

Answer 71

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 72

catechism

Answer 72

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 73

categorical

Answer 73

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 74

cater to

Answer 74

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 75

catharsis

Answer 75

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 76

catholic

Answer 76

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 77

caucus

Answer 77

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 78

caulk

Answer 78

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 79

causal

Answer 79

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 80

caustic

Answer 80

ADJ. /腐蚀；挖苦/burning; sarcastically biting. The critic's caus?tic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the sub?jects of his sarcasm.

Question 81

cavalcade

Answer 81

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

Question 82

cavalier

Answer 82

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 83

cavil

Answer 83

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 84

cede

Answer 84

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

Question 85

celebrated

Answer 85

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 base?ball players. celebrity, N.

Question 86

celerity

Answer 86

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

Question 87

celestial

Answer 87

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

Question 88

celibate

Answer 88

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

Question 89

censor

Answer 89

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

Question 90

censorious

Answer 90

ADJ. /批判的/critical. Censorious people delight in cast?ing blame.

Question 91

censure

Answer 91

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

Question 92

centigrade

Answer 92

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

Question 93

centrifugal

Answer 93

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

Question 94

centripetal

Answer 94

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

Question 95

centurion

Answer 95

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

Question 96

cerebral

Answer 96

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

Question 97

cerebration

Answer 97

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

Question 98

ceremonious

Answer 98

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

Question 99

certitude

Answer 99

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 100

cessation

Answer 100

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

Question 101

cession

Answer 101

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

Question 102

chafe

Answer 102

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 103

chaff

Answer 103

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 104

chaffing

Answer 104

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

Question 105

chagrin

Answer 105

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 106

chalice

Answer 106

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

Question 107

chameleon

Answer 107

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

Question 108

champion

Answer 108

V. /拥护/support militantly. Martin Luther King, Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize because he championed the oppressed in their struggle for equality.

Question 109

Chaotic

Answer 109

ADJ. /混乱/in utter disorder. He tried to bring order into the chaotic state of affairs. chaos, N.

Question 110

charisma

Answer 110

N. /魅力/divine gift; great popular charm or appeal of a political leader Political commentators have deplored the importance of a candidate's charisma in these days of tele?vision campaigning.

Question 111

charlatan

Answer 111

N. /吹牛/quack; pretender to knowledge. When they realized that the Wizard didn't know how to get them back to Kansas, Dorothy and her companions were indignant that they'd been duped by a charlatan.

Question 112

chary

Answer 112

ADJ. /谨慎；吝啬/cautious; sparing or restrained about giving. A prudent, thrifty, New Englander, DeWitt was as chary of investing money in junk bonds as he was chary of paying people unnecessary compliments.

Question 113

chasm

Answer 113

N. /深渊/abyss. They could not see the bottom of the chasm.

Question 114

chassis

Answer 114

N. /底盘/framework and working parts of an automobile. Examining the car after the accident, the owner discovered that the body had been ruined but that the chassis was unharmed.

Question 115

chaste

Answer 115

ADJ. /纯的/pure. Her chaste and decorous garb was appropriately selected for the solemnity of the occasion. chastity, N.

Question 116

chasten

Answer 116

V. /磨练/discipline; punish in order to correct. Whom God loves, God chastens.

Question 117

chastise

Answer 117

V. /惩罚/punish. I must chastise you for this offense.

Question 118

chauvinist

Answer 118

N. /盲目爱国主义/blindly devoted patriot. A chauvinist cannot recognize any faults in his country, no matter how flagrant they may be. Likewise, a male chauvinist cannot recognize his bias in favor of his own sex, no matter how flagrant that may be. chauvinistic,ADJ.

Question 119

check

Answer 119

V. /控制；阻止/stop motion; curb or restrain. Thrusting out her arm, Grandma checked Bobby's lunge at his sister. "Young man," she said, "you'd better check your temper." (sec?ondary meaning)

Question 120

checkered

Answer 120

ADJ. /多变的；像国际象棋棋盘一样的方格/marked by changes in fortune. During his checkered career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boardinghouses.

Question 121

cherubic

Answer 121

ADJ. /天真无邪/angelic; innocent-looking. With her cheerful smile and rosy cheeks, she was a particularly cherubic child.

Question 122

chicanery

Answer 122

N. /强辩，狡辩；欺骗/trickery; deception. Those sneaky lawyers misrepresented what occurred, made up all sorts of implau?sible alternative scenarios to confuse the jurors, and in gen?eral depended on chicanery to win the case.

Question 123

chide

Answer 123

V. /斥责/scold. Grandma began to chide Steven for his lying.

Question 124

chimerical

Answer 124

ADJ. /不现实，空想/fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative. As everyone expected, Ted's chimerical scheme to make a fortune by raising ermines in his back yard proved a dismal failure.

Question 125

chisel

Answer 125

N. /凿子/wedgelike tool for cutting. With his hammer and chisel, the sculptor chipped away at the block of marble.

Question 126

chisel

Answer 126

V. /欺骗/swindle or cheat; cut with a chisel. That crook chiseled me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that "marble" statue he'd chiseled out of some cheap hunk of rock.

Question 127

Chivalrous

Answer 127

ADJ. /勇敢；诚实/courteous; faithful; brave. Chivalrous behavior involves noble words and good deeds.

Question 128

choleric

Answer 128

ADJ. /易发怒的；脾气坏/hot-tempered. His flushed, angry face indi?cated a choleric nature.

Question 129

choreography

Answer 129

N. /舞蹈术；舞蹈记谱/art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances. Merce Cunningham has begun to use a computer in designing choreography. a software program allows him to compose arrangements of possible moves and immediately view them onscreen.

Question 130

chortle

Answer 130

V. /得意的笑/chuckle with delight. When she heard that her rival had just been jailed for embezzlement, she chortled with joy. She was not a nice lady.

Question 131

chronic

Answer 131

ADJ. /慢性的/long established as a disease. The doctors were finally able to attribute his chronic headaches and nausea to traces of formaldehyde gas in his apartment.

Question 132

chronicle

Answer 132

V. /编年史/report; record (in chronological order). The gossip columnist was paid to chronicle the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities. also N.

Question 133

churlish

Answer 133

ADJ. /粗鲁的/boorish; rude. Dismayed by his churlish map?ners at the party, the girls vowed never to invite him again.

Question 134

cipher

Answer 134

N. /密码/secret code. Lacking his code book, the spy was unable to decode the message sent to him in cipher.

Question 135

cipher

Answer 135

N. /不重要的人或物/nonentity; worthless person or thing. She claimed her ex-husband was a total cipher and wondered why she had ever married him.

Question 136

circuitous

Answer 136

ADJ. /迂回的/roundabout. To avoid the traffic congestion on the main highways, she took a circuitous route. circuit, N.

Question 137

*circumlocution

Answer 137

N. /婉转曲折的表达/indirect or roundabout expression. He was afraid to call a spade a spade and resorted to circum?locutions to avoid direct reference to his subject.

Question 138

circumscribe

Answer 138

V. /限制/limit; confine. Although I do not wish to cir?cumscribe your activities, I must insist that you complete this assignment before you start anything else.

Question 139

circumspect

Answer 139

ADJ. /慎重；周到/prudent; cautious. Investigating before acting, she tried always to be circumspect.

Question 140

circumvent

Answer 140

V. /智取；包围/outwit; baffle. In order to circumvent the enemy, we will make two preliminary attacks in other sec?tions before starting our major campaign.

Question 141

cistern

Answer 141

N. /水塔；水库/reservoir or water tank. The farmers were able to withstand the dry season by using rainwater they had stored in an underground cistern.

Question 142

citadel

Answer 142

N. /大本营/fortress. The citadel overlooked the city like a protecting angel.

Question 143

cite

Answer 143

V. /引用；掌握/quote; command. She could cite passages in the Bible from memory. citation, N.

Question 144

Civil

Answer 144

ADJ. /民事的；国民的/having to do with citizens or the state; courteous and polite. Although Internal Revenue Service agents are civil servants, they are not always civil to suspected tax cheats.

Question 145

clairvoyant

Answer 145

ADJ. N. /预知；预言者/having foresight; fortuneteller. Cassan?dra's clairvoyant warning was not heeded by the Trojans. clairvoyance, N.

Question 146

clamber

Answer 146

V. /爬/climb by crawling. She clambered over the wall.

Question 147

clamor

Answer 147

N. /吵闹声；噪音/noise. The clamor of the children at play outside made it impossible for her to take a nap. alsoV.

Question 148

clandestine

Answer 148

ADJ. /秘密/secret. After avoiding their chaperon, the lovers had a clandestine meeting.

Question 149

clangor

Answer 149

N. /大声喧哗；持续的铿锵声/loud, resounding noise. The blacksmith was accustomed to the clangor of hammers on steel.

Question 150

clapper

Answer 150

N. /铃舌，钟舌/striker (tongue) of a bell. Wishing to be undis?turbed by the bell, Dale wound his scarf around the clapper to muffle the noise of its striking.

Question 151

clasp

Answer 151

N. /扣合；紧密合作/fastening device; firm grip. When the clasp on Judy's bracelet broke, Fred repaired it, bending the hook back into shape. He then helped her slip on the bracelet, holding it firm in the sure clasp of his hand.

Question 152

claustrophobia

Answer 152

N. /幽闭恐怖症/fear of being locked in. His fellow class?mates laughed at his claustrophobia and often threatened to lock him in his room.

Question 153

cleave

Answer 153

V. /劈开；黏着；忠于/split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to. With her heavy cleaver, Julia Child can cleave a whole roast duck in two. Soaked through, the soldier tugged at the uniform that cleaved annoyingly to his body. He would cleave to his post, come rain or shine.

Question 154

Cleft

Answer 154

N. /裂缝；开裂/split. Trying for a fresh handhold, the mountain?climber grasped the edge of a cleft in the sheer rockface. alsoADJ.

Question 155

clemency

Answer 155

N. /温和；仁慈/disposition to be lenient; mildness, as of the weather. The lawyer was pleased when the case was sent to Judge Smith's chambers because Smith was noted for her clemency toward first offenders.

Question 156

clench

Answer 156

V. /牢牢抓住/close tightly; grasp. "Open wide," said the den?tist, but Clint clenched his teeth even more tightly than before.

Question 157

cliché

Answer 157

N. /陈词滥调/phrase dulled in meaning by repetition. High school compositions are often marred by such clichés as "strong as an ox."

Question 158

clientele

Answer 158

N. /常客/body of customers. The rock club attracted a young, stylish clientele.

Question 159

climactic

Answer 159

ADJ. /顶点的，高潮的/relating to the highest point. When he reached the climactic portions of the book, he could not stop reading. climax, N.

Question 160

clime

Answer 160

N. /地域；气候/region; climate. His doctor advised him to move to a milder clime.

Question 161

Clip

Answer 161

N. /剪辑/section of filmed material. Phil's job at Fox Sports involved selecting clips of the day's sporting highlights for later broadcast. alsoV.

Question 162

clique

Answer 162

N. /小圈子；同行/small exclusive group. Fitzgerald wished that he belonged to the clique of popular athletes and big men on campus who seemed to run Princeton's social life.

Question 163

cloister

Answer 163

N. /修道院/monastery or convent. The nuns lived a secluded life in the cloister.

Question 164

Clout

Answer 164

N. /巨大的影响（政治\社会）/great influence (especially political or social). Gatsby wondered whether he had enough clout to be admitted to the exclusive club.

Question 165

cloying

Answer 165

ADJ. /倒胃口；过度的/distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental. Disliking the cloying sweetness of standard wedding cakes, Jody and Tom chose to have homemade carrot cake at the reception. cloy,V.

Question 166

Clump

Answer 166

N. /一块，一团；沉重的脚步声；草丛，灌木丛/cluster or close group (of bushes, trees); mass; sound of heavy treading. Hiding behind the clump of bushes, the fugitives waited for the heavy clump of the sol?diers' feet to fade away.

Question 167

coagulate

Answer 167

V. /凝结/thicken; congeal; clot. Even after you remove the pudding from the burner, it will continue to coagulate as it stands; therefore, do not overcook the pudding, lest it become too thick.

Question 168

*coalesce

Answer 168

V. /接合/combine; fuse. The brooks coalesce into one large river. When minor political parties coalesce, their coa?lescence may create a major coalition.

Question 169

coalition

Answer 169

N. /伙伴；同盟，集合/partnership; league; union. The Rainbow Coalition united people of all races in a common cause.

Question 170

coddle

Answer 170

V. /娇养，溺爱/to treat gently. Don't coddle the children so much; they need a taste of discipline.

Question 171

codicil

Answer 171

N. /遗嘱的附录/supplement to the body of a will. Miss Havisham kept her lawyers busy drawing up codicils to add to her already complicated will.

Question 172

codify

Answer 172

V. /编纂/arrange (laws, rules) as a code; classify. We need to take the varying rules and regulations of the different health agencies and codify them into a national health code.

Question 173

coercion

Answer 173

N. /威逼，强迫/use of force to get someone to obey. The inquisitors used both physical and psychological coercion to force Joan of Arc to deny that her visions were sent by God. coerce,V.

Question 174

cogent

Answer 174

ADJ. /有说服力的/convincing. It was inevitable that David chose to go to Harvard: he had several cogent reasons for doing so, including a full-tuition scholarship. Katya argued her case with such cogency that the jury had to decide in favor of her client.

Question 175

cogitate

Answer 175

V. /考虑/think over. Cogitate on this problem; the solu?tion will come.

Question 176

cognate

Answer 176

ADJ. /同源的/related linguistically: allied by blood: similar or akin in nature. The English word "mother" is cognate to the Latin word "mater," whose influence is visible in the words "maternal" and "maternity." also N.

Question 177

cognitive

Answer 177

ADJ. /认知的/having to do with knowing or perceiving; related to the mental processes. Though Jack was emotion?ally immature, his cognitive development was admirable; he was very advanced intellectually.

Question 178

cognizance

Answer 178

N. /认知/knowledge. During the election campaign, the two candidates were kept in full cognizance of the inter?national situation.

Question 179

cohere

Answer 179

V. /粘住的/stick together. Solids have a greater tendency to cohere than liquids.

Question 180

cohesion

Answer 180

N. /内聚力；黏度/tendency to keep together. A firm believer in the maxim "Divide and conquer," the evil emperor, by means of lies and trickery, sought to disrupt the cohesion of the federation of free nations.

Question 181

coiffure

Answer 181

N. /发型/hairstyle. You can make a statement with your choice of coiffure: in the sixties many African?Americans affirmed their racial heritage by wearing their hair in Afros.

Question 182

coin

Answer 182

V. /铸币；发明；杜撰/make coins; invent or fabricate. Mints coin good money; counterfeiters coin fakes. Slanderers coin nasty rumors; writers coin words. A neologism is an expression that's been newly-coined.

Question 183

coincidence

Answer 183

N. /巧合/two or more things occurring at the same time by chance. Was it just a coincidence that John and she had chanced to meet at the market for three days run?ning, or was he deliberately trying to seek her out? coinci?dental,ADJ.

Question 184

colander

Answer 184

N. /过滤器/utensil with perforated bottom used for strain?ing. Before serving the spaghetti, place it in a colander to drain it.

Question 185

collaborate

Answer 185

V. /协作，合作/work together. Two writers collaborated in preparing this book.

Question 186

collage

Answer 186

N. /拼贴画/work of art put together from fragments. Scraps of cloth, paper doilies, and old photographs all went into her collage.

Question 187

collate

Answer 187

V. /校对，整理/examine in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order. They collated the newly found manuscripts to deter?mine their age.

Question 188

collateral

Answer 188

N. /抵押品/security given for loan. The sum you wish to borrow is so large that it must be secured by collateral.

Question 189

colloquial

Answer 189

ADJ. /口语的/pertaining to conversational or common speech. Some of the new, less formal reading passages on SAT I have a colloquial tone that is intended to make them more appealing to students.

Question 190

collusion

Answer 190

N. /勾结/Conspiring in a fraudulent scheme. The swindlers were found guilty of collusion.

Question 191

colossal

Answer 191

ADJ. /巨大/huge. Radio City Music Hall has a colossal stage.

Question 192

comatose

Answer 192

ADJ. /昏迷；熟睡/a coma; extremely sleepy. The long?winded orator soon had his audience in a comatose state.

Question 193

*combustible

Answer 193

ADJ. /易燃的/easily burned. After the recent outbreak of fires in private homes, the fire commissioner ordered that all combustible materials be kept in safe containers, also N.

Question 194

comely

Answer 194

ADJ. /清秀，美丽，漂亮；有吸引力的/attractive; agreeable. I would rather have a poor and comely wife than a rich and homely one.

Question 195

comeuppance

Answer 195

N. /报应/rebuke; deserts. After his earlier rude?ness, we were delighted to see him get his comeuppance.

Question 196

commandeer

Answer 196

V. /征用，招募/to draft for military purposes; to take for public use. The policeman commandeered the first car that approached and ordered the driver to go to the nearest hospital.

Question 197

commemorate

Answer 197

V. /纪念/honor the memory of. The statue of the Minute Man commemorates the valiant soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Question 198

commensurate

Answer 198

ADJ. /相当的，相称的/equal in extent. Your reward will be commensurate with your effort.

Question 199

commiserate

Answer 199

V. /怜悯，同情/feel or express pity or sympathy for. Her friends commiserated with the widow.

Question 200

commodious

Answer 200

ADJ. /宽敞，舒适/spacious and comfortable. After sleep?ing in small roadside cabins, they found their hotel suite commodious.

Question 201

communal

Answer 201

ADJ. /公共的/held in common; of a group of people. When they were divorced, they had trouble dividing their communal property.

Question 202

compact

Answer 202

N. /合约，合同/agreement; contract. The signers of the Mayflower Compact were establishing a form of government.

Question 203

compact

Answer 203

ADJ. /紧密的，结实的/tightly packed; firm; brief. His short, com?pact body was better suited to wrestling than to basketball.

Question 204

comparable

Answer 204

ADJ. /相似的/similar. People whose jobs are compara?ble in difficulty should receive comparable pay.

Question 205

compatible

Answer 205

ADJ. /和谐的/harmonious; in harmony with. They were compatible neighbors, never quarreling over unimportant matters. compatibility, N.

Question 206

compelling

Answer 206

ADJ. /强制的/overpowering; irresistible in effect. The prosecutor presented a well-reasoned case, but the defense attorney's compelling arguments for leniency won over the jury.

Question 207

compensatory

Answer 207

ADJ. /补偿/making up for; repaying. Can a com?pensatory education program make up for the inadequate schooling he received in earlier years?

Question 208

compile

Answer 208

V. /聚集，积累，汇集/assemble; gather; accumulate. We planned to compile a list of the words most frequently used on SAT I examinations.

Question 209

complacency

Answer 209

N. /自满；装模作样/self-satisfaction; smugness. Full of com?placency about his latest victories, he looked smugly at the row of trophies on his mantelpiece. complacent,ADJ.

Question 210

complaisant

Answer 210

ADJ. /彬彬有礼；殷勤/trying to please; obliging. The courtier obeyed the king's orders in a complaisant manner.

Question 211

complement

Answer 211

V. /补足；完善/complete; consummate; make perfect. The waiter recommended a glass of port to complement the cheese. also N.

Question 212

*complementary

Answer 212

ADJ. /补足的，完善的/serving to complete something. John and Lisa's skills are complementary. he's good at following a daily routine, while she's great at improvising and han?dling emergencies. Together they make a great team.

Question 213

compliance

Answer 213

N. /顺从/readiness to yield; conformity in fulfilling requirements. Bullheaded Bill was not noted for easy com?pliance with the demands of others. As an architect, how?ever, Bill recognized that his design for the new school had to be in compliance with the local building code.

Question 214

compliant

Answer 214

ADJ. /顺从/yielding. Because Joel usually gave in and went along with whatever his friends desired, his mother worried that he might be too compliant.

Question 215

complicity

Answer 215

N. /共犯，共同/participation; involvement. You cannot keep your complicity in this affair secret very long; you would be wise to admit your involvement immediately.

Question 216

component

Answer 216

N. /成分/element; ingredient. I wish all the compo?nents of my stereo system were working at the same time.

Question 217

composure

Answer 217

N. /镇定，沉着/mental calmness. Even the latest work crisis failed to shake her composure.

Question 218

compound

Answer 218

V. /混合；组合；增加/combine; constitute; pay interest; increase. The makers of the popular cold remedy compounded a nasal decongestant with an antihistamine. also N.

Question 219

comprehensive

Answer 219

ADJ. /全面的/thorough; inclusive. This book pro?vides a comprehensive review of verbal and math skills for the SAT.

Question 220

compress

Answer 220

V. /压缩/close; squeeze; contract. She compressed the package under her arm.

Question 221

comprise

Answer 221

V. /包括/include; consist of. If the District of Columbia were to be granted statehood, the United States of America would comprise fifty-one states, not just fifty.

Question 222

compromise

Answer 222

V. /危害；妥协/adjust or settle by making mutual conces?sions; endanger the interests or reputation of. Sometimes the presence of a neutral third party can help adversaries compromise their differences. Unfortunately, you're not neu?tral; therefore, your presence here compromises our chances of reaching an agreement. also N.

Question 223

compunction

Answer 223

N. /后悔/remorse. The judge was especially severe in his sentencing because he felt that the criminal had shown no compunction for his heinous crime.

Question 224

compute

Answer 224

V. /计算/reckon; calculate. He failed to compute the interest, so his bank balance was not accurate. computa?tion, N.

Question 225

concave

Answer 225

ADJ. /空的/hollow. The back-packers found partial shel?ter from the storm by huddling against the concave wall of the cliff.

Question 226

concede

Answer 226

V. /勉强，让步，屈从/admit; yield. Despite all the evidence Monica had assembled, Mark refused to concede that she was right.

Question 227

conceit

Answer 227

N. /自负，自大；离奇古怪的想法/vanity or self-love; whimsical idea; extravagant metaphor. Although Jack was smug and puffed up with conceit, he was an entertaining companion, always expressing himself in amusing conceits and witty turns of phrase.

Question 228

concentric

Answer 228

ADJ. /同心/having a common center. The target was made of concentric circles.

Question 229

conception

Answer 229

N. /开始，构思/beginning; forming of an idea. At the first conception of the work, he was consulted. conceive,V.

Question 230

concerted

Answer 230

ADJ. /协调的/mutually agreed on; done together. All the Girl Scouts made a concerted effort to raise funds for their annual outing. When the movie star appeared, his fans let out a concerted sigh.

Question 231

concession

Answer 231

N. /让步/an act of yielding. Before they could reach an agreement, both sides had to make certain concessions.

Question 232

conciliatory

Answer 232

ADJ. /抚慰，调和/reconciling; soothing. She was still angry despite his conciliatory words. conciliate,V.

Question 233

concise

Answer 233

ADJ. /简练/brief and compact. When you define a new word, be concise: the shorter the definition, the easier it is to remember.

Question 234

contrived

Answer 234

ADJ. /做作的；牵强的/forced; artificial; not spontaneous. Feeling ill at ease with his new in-laws, James made a few contrived attempts at conversation and then retreated into silence.

Question 235

controvert

Answer 235

V. /辩论；反驳/oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict. The witness's testimony was so clear and her reputation for honesty so well-established that the defense attorney decided it was wiser to make no attempt to contro?vertwhat she said.

Question 236

contusion

Answer 236

N. /擦伤；撞伤/bruise. Black and blue after her fall, Sue was treated for contusions and abrasions.

Question 237

conundrum

Answer 237

N. /谜语/riddle. During the long car ride, she invented conundrums to entertain the children.

Question 238

convene

Answer 238

V. /召集，集合/assemble. Because much needed legislation had to be enacted, the governor ordered the legislature to convene in special session by January 15.

Question 239

convention

Answer 239

N. /习俗，惯例/social or moral custom; established prac?tice. Flying in the face of convention, George Sand shocked society by taking lovers and wearing men's clothes.

Question 240

conventional

Answer 240

ADJ. /典型的；普通的/ordinary; typical. His conventional upbringing left him wholly unprepared for his wife's eccen?tric family.

Question 241

converge

Answer 241

V. /聚合；接近/approach; tend to meet; come together. African-American men from all over the United States con?verged on Washington to take part in the historic Million Men march.

Question 242

conversant

Answer 242

ADJ. /熟悉/familiar with. The lawyer is conversant with all the evidence.

Question 243

converse

Answer 243

N. /相反的/opposite. The inevitable converse of peace is not war but annihilation.

Question 244

converse

Answer 244

V. /聊天/chat; talk informally. Eva was all ears while Lulu and Lola conversed. Wasn't it rude of her to eavesdrop on their conversation? conversation, N.

Question 245

convert

Answer 245

N. /改变；转换；皈依/one who has adopted a different religion or opinion. On his trip to Japan, though the President spoke at length about the virtues of American automobiles, he made few converts to his beliefs. alsoV.

Question 246

convex

Answer 246

ADJ. /凸的/curving outward. He polished the convex lens of his telescope.

Question 247

conveyance

Answer 247

N. /运输；交通工具/vehicle; transfer. During the transit strike, commuters used various kinds of conveyances.

Question 248

conviction

Answer 248

N. /定罪；深信/judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief. Even her conviction for murder did not shake Peter's conviction that Harriet was innocent of the crime.

Question 249

convivial

Answer 249

ADJ. /欢乐；高兴/festive; gay; characterized by joviality. The convivial celebrators of the victory sang their college songs.

Question 250

convoke

Answer 250

V. /召集/call together. Congress was convoked at the outbreak of the emergency. convocation, N.

Question 251

convoluted

Answer 251

ADJ. /围绕，卷绕；费解/coiled around; involved; intricate. His argument was so convoluted that few of us could follow it intelligently.

Question 252

Copious

Answer 252

ADJ. /丰富的，大量的/plentiful. She had copious reasons for reject?ing the proposal.

Question 253

coquette

Answer 253

N. /卖弄风情的女子；蜂鸟/flirt. Because she refused to give him an answer to his proposal of marriage, he called her a coquette. alsoV.

Question 254

cordial

Answer 254

ADJ. /亲切；衷心/gracious; heartfelt. Our hosts greeted us at the airport with a cordial welcome and a hearty hug.

Question 255

cordon

Answer 255

N. /警戒线/extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress. The police cordon was so tight that the criminals could not leave the area. alsoV.

Question 256

cornucopia

Answer 256

N. /象征丰饶的羊角/horn overflowing with fruit and grain; symbol of abundance. The encyclopedia salesman claimed the new edition was a veritable cornucopia of information, an inexhaustible source of knowledge for the entire family.

Question 257

corollary

Answer 257

N. /结果，产物/consequence; accompaniment. Brotherly love is a complex emotion, with sibling rivalry its natural corollary.

Question 258

coronation

Answer 258

N. /加冕/ceremony of crowning a queen or king. When the witches told Macbeth he would be king, they failed to warn him he would lose his crown soon after his coronation.

Question 259

corporeal

Answer 259

ADJ. /肉体的，物质的/bodily; material. The doctor had no patience with spiritual matters: his job was to attend to his patients' corporeal problems, not to minister to their souls.

Question 260

corpulent

Answer 260

ADJ. /肥胖/very fat. The corpulent man resolved to reduce. corpulence, N.

Question 261

correlation

Answer 261

N. /相互的关系/mutual relationship. He sought to determine the correlation that existed between ability in algebra and ability to interpret reading exercises. correlate, V., N.

Question 262

corroborate

Answer 262

V. /确认；支持/confirm; support. Though Huck was quite willing to corroborate Tom's story, Aunt Polly knew better than to believe either of them.

Question 263

corrode

Answer 263

V. /腐蚀/destroy by chemical action. The girders support?ing the bridge corroded so gradually that no one suspected any danger until the bridge suddenly collapsed. corrosion, N.

Question 264

corrosive

Answer 264

ADJ. /腐蚀性的/eating away by chemicals or disease. Stain?less steel is able to withstand the effects of corrosive chem?icals. corrode,V.

Question 265

corrugated

Answer 265

ADJ. /皱的/wrinkled; ridged. She wished she could smooth away the wrinkles from his corrugated brow.

Question 266

Cosmic

Answer 266

ADJ. /宇宙的；巨大的/pertaining to the universe; vast. Cosmic rays derive their name from the fact that they bombard the earth's atmosphere from outer space. COSMOS, N.

Question 267

cosmopolitan

Answer 267

ADJ. /世界主义/sophisticated. Her years in the capitol had transformed her into a cosmopolitan young woman highly aware of international affairs.

Question 268

coterie

Answer 268

N. /同行，圈内人/group that meets socially; select circle. After his book had been published, he was invited to join the literary coterie that lunched daily at the hotel.

Question 269

countenance

Answer 269

V. /忍受；接受/approve; tolerate. He refused to counte?nance such rude behavior on their part.

Question 270

countenance

Answer 270

N. /脸/face. When Jose saw his newborn daugh?ter, a proud smile spread across his countenance.

Question 271

countermand

Answer 271

V. /取消；废除/cancel; revoke. The general counter?manded the orders issued in his absence.

Question 272

culvert

Answer 272

N. /水管/artificial channel for water. If we build a culvert under the road at this point, we will reduce the possibility of the road's being flooded during the rainy season.

Question 273

cumbersome

Answer 273

ADJ. /粗笨的；累赘/heavy; hard to manage. He was bur?dened down with cumbersome parcels.

Question 274

cumulative

Answer 274

ADJ. /累积/growing by addition. Vocabulary building is a cumulative process: as you go through your flash cards, you will add new words to your vocabulary, one by one.

Question 275

cupidity

Answer 275

N. /贪婪/greed. The defeated people could not satisfy the cupidity of the conquerors, who demanded excessive tribute.

Question 276

curator

Answer 276

N. /主管；经理/superintendent; manager. The members of the board of trustees of the museum expected the new curator to plan events and exhibitions that would make the museum more popular.

Question 277

curmudgeon

Answer 277

N. /脾气坏；吝啬/churlish, miserly individual. Although he was regarded by many as a curmudgeon, a few of us were aware of the many kindnesses and acts of charity that he secretly performed.

Question 278

cursive

Answer 278

ADJ. /流动的；连接的/flowing, running. In normal writing we run our letters together in cursive form; in printing, we separate the letters.

Question 279

cursory

Answer 279

ADJ. /草率；匆忙/casual; hastily done. Because a cursory examination of the ruins indicates the possibility of arson, we believe the insurance agency should undertake a more extensive investigation of the fire's cause.

Question 280

curtail

Answer 280

V. /减短；降低/shorten; reduce. When Herb asked Diane for a date, she said she was really sorry she couldn't go out with him, but her dad had ordered her to curtail her social life.

Question 281

cynical

Answer 281

ADJ. /愤世嫉俗/skeptical or distrustful of human motives. Cyn?ical from birth, Sidney was suspicious whenever anyone gave him a gift "with no strings attached." cynic, N.

Question 282

cynosure

Answer 282

N. /广受注意的目标/the object of general attention. As soon as the movie star entered the room, she became the cynosure of all eyes.

Question 283

dabble

Answer 283

V. /涉猎，尝试；溅/work at in a non-serious fashion; splash around. The amateur painter dabbled at art, but seldom produced a finished piece. The children dabbled their hands in the bird bath, splashing one another gleefully.

Question 284

dais

Answer 284

N. /讲台/raised platform for guests of honor. When he approached the dais, he was greeted by cheers from the people who had come to honor him.

Question 285

dank

Answer 285

ADJ. /湿的；湿透的/damp. The walls of the dungeon were dank and slimy.

Question 286

dapper

Answer 286

ADJ. /整齐的，优雅的/neat and trim. In "The Odd Couple" TV show, Tony Randall played Felix Unger, an excessively dapper soul who could not stand to have a hair out of place.

Question 287

dappled

Answer 287

ADJ. /有斑点的/spotted. The sunlight filtering through the screens created a dappled effect on the wall.

Question 288

daub

Answer 288

V. /涂抹/smear (as with paint). From the way he daubed his paint on the canvas, I could tell he knew nothing of oils. also N.

Question 289

daunt

Answer 289

V. /惊吓；胁迫/intimidate; frighten. "Boast all you like of your prowess. Mere words cannot daunt me," the hero answered the villain.

Question 290

dauntless

Answer 290

ADJ. /胆大的/bold. Despite the dangerous nature of the undertaking, the dauntless soldier volunteered for the assignment.

Question 291

dawdle

Answer 291

V. /游手好闲；混日子/loiter; waste time. We have to meet a deadline so don't dawdle; just get down to work.

Question 292

deadlock

Answer 292

N. /僵局/standstill; stalemate. Because negotiations had reached a deadlock, some of the delegates had begun to mutter about breaking off the talks. alsoV.

Question 293

deadpan

Answer 293

ADJ. /没有表情的；呆板的/wooden; impersonal. We wanted to see how long he could maintain his deadpan expression.

Question 294

dearth

Answer 294

N. /稀缺；缺乏/scarcity. The dearth of skilled labor compelled the employers to open trade schools.

Question 295

debacle

Answer 295

N. /崩溃/sudden downfall; complete disaster. In the Air?plane movies, every flight turns into a debacle, with passen?gers and crew members collapsing, engines falling apart, and carry-on baggage popping out of the overhead bins.

Question 296

debase

Answer 296

V. /贬低，降低/reduce in quality or value; lower in esteem; degrade. In The King and l, Anna refuses to kneel down and prostrate herself before the king, for she feels that to do so would debase her position, and she will not submit to such debasement.

Question 297

debauch

Answer 297

V. /堕落，放荡/corrupt; seduce from virtue. Did Socrates' teachings lead the young men of Athens to be virtuous citi?zens, or did they debauch the young men, causing them to question the customs of their fathers? Clearly, Socrates' philosophical talks were nothing like the wild debauchery of the toga parties in Animal House.

Question 298

debilitate

Answer 298

V. /使虚弱，衰弱/weaken; enfeeble. Michael's severe bout of the flu debilitated him so much that he was too tired to go to work for a week.

Question 299

debonair

Answer 299

ADJ. /温文尔雅；友好；殷勤/friendly; aiming to please. The debonair youth was liked by all who met him, because of his cheerful and obliging manner.

Question 300

debris

Answer 300

N. /碎片；残骸/rubble. A full year after the earthquake in Mexico City, they were still carting away the debris.

Question 301

debunk

Answer 301

V. /揭穿；奚落/expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc; ridicule. Pointing out that he consistently had voted against strengthening anti-pollution legislation, reporters debunked the candidate's claim that he was a fervent environmentalist.

Question 302

debutante

Answer 302

N. /初次参加社交活动的女孩/young woman making formal entrance into society. As a debutante, she was often mentioned in the society columns of the newspapers.

Question 303

decadence

Answer 303

N. /颓废；腐坏/decay. The moral decadence of the people was reflected in the lewd literature of the period.

Question 304

decapitate

Answer 304

V. /斩首，杀头/behead. They did not hang Lady Jane Grey; they decapitated her. "Off with her head!" cried the Duchess, eager to decapitate poor Alice.

Question 305

decelerate

Answer 305

V. /减慢/slow down. Seeing the emergency blinkers in the road ahead, he decelerated quickly.

Question 306

deciduous

Answer 306

ADJ. /落叶的/falling off as of leaves. The oak is a decid?uous tree; in winter it looks quite bare.

Question 307

decimate

Answer 307

V. /残杀（十个里面杀一个）/kill, usually one out of ten. We do more to decimate our population in automobile accidents than we do in war.

Question 308

decipher

Answer 308

V. /破译，解密/interpret secret code. Lacking his code book, the spy was unable to decipher the scrambled message sent to him from the KGB.

Question 309

declivity

Answer 309

N. /下坡/downward slope. The children loved to ski down the declivity.

Question 310

decollete

Answer 310

ADJ. /低肩露颈的服装/having a low-necked dress. Current fashion decrees that evening gowns be decollete this season; bare shoulders are again the vogue.

Question 311

decomposition

Answer 311

N. /瓦解；腐烂/decay. Despite the body's advanced state of decomposition, the police were able to identify the murdered man.

Question 312

decorum

Answer 312

N. /礼貌；温文尔雅/propriety; orderliness and good taste in man?ners. Even the best-mannered students have trouble behav?ing with decorum on the last day of school. decorous,ADJ.

Question 313

decoy

Answer 313

N. /引诱/lure or bait. The wild ducks were not fooled by the decoy. alsoV.

Question 314

decrepit

Answer 314

ADJ. /老化，磨损/worn out by age. The decrepit car blocked traffic on the highway.

Question 315

decrepitude

Answer 315

N. /衰老；老耄/state of collapse caused by illness or old age. I was unprepared for the state of decrepitude in which I had found my old friend; he seemed to have aged twenty years in six months.

Question 316

decry

Answer 316

V. /强烈反对/express strong disapproval of; disparage. The founder of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, strongly decries the lack of financial and moral support for children in America today.

Question 317

deducible

Answer 317

ADJ. /可推导的，可推论的/derived by reasoning. If we accept your premise, your conclusions are easily deducible.

Question 318

deface

Answer 318

V. /丑化/mar; disfigure. If you deface a library book, you will have to pay a hefty fine.

Question 319

defame

Answer 319

V. /丑化；诽谤/harm someone's reputation; malign; slander. If you try to defame my good name, my lawyers will see you in court. If rival candidates persist in defaming one another, the voters may conclude that all politicians are crooks. defamation, N.

Question 320

default

Answer 320

N. /不作为，无动于衷/failure to act. When the visiting team failed to show up for the big game, they lost the game by default. When Jack failed to make the payments on his Jaguar, the dealership took back the car because he had defaulted on his debt.

Question 321

defeatist

Answer 321

ADJ. /失败主义者/attitude of one who is ready to accept defeat as a natural outcome. If you maintain your defeatist attitude, you will never succeed. also N.

Question 322

defection

Answer 322

N. /缺点；逃跑，叛逃/desertion. The children, who had made him an idol, were hurt most by his defection from our cause.

Question 323

defer

Answer 323

V. /推迟，延期/delay till later; exempt temporarily. In wartime, some young men immediately volunteer to serve; others

Question 324

defer

Answer 324

/缓招/making plans until they hear from their draft boards. During the Vietnam War, many young men, hoping to be deferred, requested student deferments.

Question 325

defer

Answer 325

V. /听从/give in respectfully; submit. When it comes to making decisions about purchasing software, we must defer to Michael, our computer guru; he gets the final word. Michael, however, can defer these questions to no one; only he can decide.

Question 326

deference

Answer 326

N. /尊重的，尊重他人的/courteous regard for another's wish. In defer?ence to the minister's request, please do not take pho?tographs during the wedding service.

Question 327

defiance

Answer 327

N. /抵抗；不屈服/refusal to yield; resistance. When John reached the "terrible two's," he responded to every parental request with howls of defiance. defy,V.

Question 328

defile

Answer 328

V. /污染；亵渎/pollute; profane. The hoodlums defiled the church with their scurrilous writing.

Question 329

definitive

Answer 329

ADJ. /完全的；最终的/final; complete. Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln may be regarded as the definitive work on the life of the Great Emancipator.

Question 330

deflect

Answer 330

V. /反射，偏转/turn aside. His life was saved when his cigarette case deflected the bullet.

Question 331

defoliate

Answer 331

V. /落叶/destroy leaves. In Vietnam the army made extensive use of chemical agents to defoliate the woodlands.

Question 332

defray

Answer 332

V. /偿付/pay the costs of. Her employer offered to defray the costs of her postgraduate education.

Question 333

deft

Answer 333

ADJ. /灵巧的，敏锐地/neat; skillful. The deft waiter uncorked the cham?pagne without spilling a drop.

Question 334

defunct

Answer 334

ADJ. /死的；不存在的，报废的/dead; no longer in use or existence. The lawyers sought to examine the books of the defunct corpo?ration.

Question 335

defuse

Answer 335

V. /拆弹；化解（危机）/remove the fuse of a bomb; reduce or eliminate a threat. Police negotiators are trained to defuse danger?ous situations by avoiding confrontational language and behavior.

Question 336

degenerate

Answer 336

V. /恶化/become worse; deteriorate. As the fight dragged on, the champion's style degenerated until he could barely keep on his feet.

Question 337

degradation

Answer 337

N. /降级；降格；退化/humiliation; debasement; degeneration. Some secretaries object to fetching the boss a cup of cof?fee because they resent the degradation of being made to do such lowly tasks. degrade,V.

Question 338

dehydrate

Answer 338

V. /脱水/remove water from; dry out. Running under a hot sun quickly dehydrates the body; joggers soon learn to carry water bottles and to drink from them frequently.

Question 339

deify

Answer 339

V. /神化/ turn into a god; idolize. Admire Elvis Presley all you want; just don't deify him.

Question 340

deign

Answer 340

V. /屈服，屈尊/condescend; stoop. The celebrated fashion designer would not deign to speak to a mere seamstress; his overburdened assistant had to convey the master's wishes to the lowly workers assembling his great designs.

Question 341

delectable

Answer 341

ADJ. /使人愉快的/delightful; delicious. We thanked our host for a most delectable meal.

Question 342

delete

Answer 342

V. /删除/erase; strike out. Less is more: if you delete this paragraph, your whole essay will have greater appeal.

Question 343

deleterious

Answer 343

ADJ. /有害的/harmful. If you believe that smoking is deleterious to your health (and the Surgeon General cer?tainly does), then quit!

Question 344

deliberate

Answer 344

V. /深思熟虑的；商讨/consider; ponder. Offered the new job, she asked for time to deliberate before she told them her decision,

Question 345

delineate

Answer 345

V. /描绘；描述/portray; depict; sketch. Using only a few descriptive phrases, Austen delineates the character of Mr. Collins so well that we can predict his every move. delin?eation, N.

Question 346

delirium

Answer 346

N. /精神错乱/mental disorder marked by confusion. In his delirium, the drunkard saw pink panthers and talking pigs. Perhaps he wasn't delirious: he might just have wandered into a movie.

Question 347

delude

Answer 347

V. /盅惑/deceive. His mistress may have deluded herself into believing that he would leave his wife and marry her.

Question 348

deluge

Answer 348

N. /冲（水）（刺）/flood; rush. When we advertised the position, we received a deluge of applications.

Question 349

delusion

Answer 349

N. /错觉/false belief; hallucination. Don suffers from delusions of grandeur: he thinks he's a world-famous author when he's published just one paperback book.

Question 350

delve

Answer 350

V. /挖掘；调查/dig; investigate. Delving into old books and man?uscripts is part of a researcher's job.

Question 351

demagogue

Answer 351

N. /煽动政治家/person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people. He was accused of being a dema?gogue because he made promises that aroused futile hopes in his listeners.

Question 352

demean

Answer 352

V. /降级；贬低/degrade; humiliate. Standing on his dignity, he refused to demean himself by replying to the offensive letter. If you truly believed in the dignity of labor, you would not think it would demean you to work as a janitor.

Question 353

demeanor

Answer 353

N. /风度；行为/behavior; bearing. His sober demeanor qui?eted the noisy revelers.

Question 354

demented

Answer 354

ADJ. /疯狂的/insane. Doctor Demento was a lunatic radio personality who liked to act as if he were truly demented. If you're demented, your mental state is out of whack; in other words, you're wacky.

Question 355

demise

Answer 355

N. /死/death. Upon the demise of the dictator, a bitter dispute about succession to power developed.

Question 356

demolition

Answer 356

N. /拆除/destruction. One of the major aims of the air force was the complete demolition of all means of trans?portation by bombing of rail lines and terminals. demolish,V.

Question 357

demoniac

Answer 357

ADJ. /魔鬼的/fiendish. The Spanish Inquisition devised many demoniac means of torture. demon, N.

Question 358

demur

Answer 358

V. /反对；犹豫/object (because of doubts, scruples); hesitate. When offered a post on the board of directors, David demurred: he had scruples about taking on the job because he was unsure he could handle it in addition to his other responsibilities.

Question 359

demure

Answer 359

ADJ. /端庄的；认真的；腼腆的/grave; serious; coy. She was demure and reserved, a nice modest girl whom any young man would be proud to take home to his mother.

Question 360

demystify

Answer 360

V. /澄清；揭秘/clarify; free from mystery or obscurity. Help?ful doctors demystify medical procedures by describing them in everyday language, explaining that a myringotomy, for example, is an operation involving making a small hole in one's eardrum.

Question 361

denigrate

Answer 361

V. /抹黑/blacken. All attempts to denigrate the charac?ter of our late president have failed; the people still love him and cherish his memory.

Question 362

denizen

Answer 362

N. /居民；常客/inhabitant or resident; regular visitor. In The Untouchables, Eliot Ness fights AI Capone and the other denizens of Chicago's underworld. Ness's fight against cor?ruption was the talk of all the denizens of the local bars.

Question 363

denotation

Answer 363

N. /指示；根据名字区别/meaning; distinguishing by name. A dictio?nary will always give us the denotation of a word; fre?quently, it will also give us the connotations. denote,V.

Question 364

denouement

Answer 364

N. /结局；结果/outcome; final development of the plot of a play. The play was childishly written; the denouement was obvious to sophisticated theatergoers as early as the mid?dle of the first act.

Question 365

denounce

Answer 365

V. /咒骂；批评/condemn; criticize. The reform candidate denounced the corrupt city officers for having betrayed the public's trust. denunciation, N.

Question 366

depict

Answer 366

V. /描述/portray. In this sensational exposé, the author depicts Beatle John Lennon as a drug-crazed neurotic. Do you question the accuracy of this depiction of Lennon?

Question 367

deplete

Answer 367

V. /耗尽；减少/reduce; exhaust. We must wait until we deplete our present inventory before we order replacements.

Question 368

deplore

Answer 368

V. /悔恨/regret; disapprove of. Although I deplore the vulgarity of your language, I defend your right to express yourself freely.

Question 369

deploy

Answer 369

V. /散开；部署/spread out [troops] in an extended though shal?low battle line. The general ordered the battalion to deploy in order to meet the enemy offensive.

Question 370

depose

Answer 370

V. /革职/dethrone; remove from office. The army attempted to depose the king and set up a military govern?ment.

Question 371

deposition

Answer 371

N. /宣言，誓言/testimony under oath. He made his deposi?tion in the judge's chamber.

Question 372

depravity

Answer 372

N. /堕落，腐坏/extreme corruption; wickedness. The deprav?ity of Caligula's behavior came to sicken even those who had willingly participated in his earlier, comparatively inno?cent orgies.

Question 373

deprecate

Answer 373

V. /抗议；蔑视/express disapproval of; protest against; belit?tle. A firm believer in old-fashioned courtesy, Miss Post deprecated the modern tendency to address new acquain?tances by their first names. deprecatory,ADJ.

Question 374

depreciate

Answer 374

V. /折旧/lessen in value. If you neglect this property, it will depreciate.

Question 375

depredation

Answer 375

N. /掠夺/plundering. After the depredations of the invaders, the people were penniless.

Question 376

deranged

Answer 376

ADJ. /不理智/insane. He had to be institutionalized because he was mentally deranged.

Question 377

derelict

Answer 377

ADJ. /遗弃的；废弃的/abandoned; negligent. The derelict craft was a menace to navigation. Whoever abandoned it in the mid?dle of the harbor was derelict in living up to his responsibili?ties as a boat owner. also N.

Question 378

deride

Answer 378

V. /打趣；取消/ridicule; make fun of. The critics derided his pre?tentious dialogue and refused to consider his play seri?ously. derision, N.

Question 379

derivative

Answer 379

ADJ. /派生的/unoriginal; derived from another source. Although her early poetry was clearly derivative in nature,the critics thought she had promise and eventually would find her own voice.

Question 380

dermatologist

Answer 380

N. /皮肤病专家/one who studies the skin and its diseases. I advise you to consult a dermatologist about your acne.

Question 381

derogatory

Answer 381

ADJ. /贬低的，贬损的/expressing a low opinion. I resent your derogatory remarks.

Question 382

descant

Answer 382

V. /全面而详细的讨论/discuss fully. He was willing to descant upon any topic of conversation, even when he knew very little about the subject under discussion. also N.

Question 383

descry

Answer 383

V. /看到/catch sight of. In the distance, we could barely descry the enemy vessels.

Question 384

desecrate

Answer 384

V. /亵渎/profane; violate the sanctity of. Shattering the altar and trampling the holy objects underfoot, the invaders desecrated the sanctuary.

Question 385

desiccate

Answer 385

V. /弄干/dry up. A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to desiccate food in order to preserve it.

Question 386

desolate

Answer 386

ADJ. /荒无人烟的/unpopulated. After six months in the crowded, bustling metropolis, David was so sick of people that he was ready to head for the most desolate patch of wilderness he could find.

Question 387

desolate

Answer 387

V. /放弃/rob of joy; lay waste to; forsake. The bandits desolated the countryside, burning farms and carrying off the harvest.

Question 388

despise

Answer 388

V. look on with scorn; regard as worthless or distasteful. Mr. Bond, I despise spies; I look down on them as mean, despicable, honorless men, whom I would wipe from the face of the earth with as little con?cern as I would scrape dog droppings from the bottom of my shoe.

Question 389

despoil

Answer 389

V. /掠夺/plunder. If you do not yield, I am afraid the enemy will despoil the countryside.

Question 390

despondent

Answer 390

ADJ. /忧郁的；沮丧的/depressed; gloomy. To the dismay of his parents, William became seriously despondent after he broke up with Jan; they despaired of finding a cure for his gloom. despondency, N.

Question 391

despot

Answer 391

N. /暴君/tyrant; harsh, authoritarian ruler. How could a benevolent king turn overnight into a despot?

Question 392

destitute

Answer 392

ADJ. /一贫如洗/extremely poor. Because they had no health insurance, the father's costly illness left the family destitute.

Question 393

desultory

Answer 393

ADJ. /慢无目的的；断断续续的/aimless; haphazard; digressing at random. In prison Malcolm X set himself the task of reading straight through the dictionary; to him, reading was purposeful, not desultory.

Question 394

detached

Answer 394

ADJ. /分离的/emotionally removed; calm and objective; physically unconnected. A psychoanalyst must maintain a detached point of view and stay uninvolved with his or her patients' personal lives. To a child growing up in an apart?ment or a row house, to live in a detached house was an unattainable dream.

Question 395

detergent

Answer 395

N. /洗洁精；洗涤剂/cleansing agent. Many new detergents have replaced soap.

Question 396

determination

Answer 396

N. /决定；测量，计算；解决/resolve; measurement or calculation; decision. Nothing could shake his determination that his children would get the best education that money could buy. Thanks to my pocket calculator, my determination of the answer to the problem took only seconds of my time.

Question 397

deterrent

Answer 397

N. /挫败；使气馁/something that discourages; hindrance. Does the threat of capital punishment serve as a deterrent to potential killers? deter,V.

Question 398

detonation

Answer 398

N. /引爆，爆炸/explosion. The detonation of the bomb could be heard miles away.

Question 399

detraction

Answer 399

N. /诽谤/slandering; aspersion. He is offended by your frequent detractions of his ability as a leader.

Question 400

detrimental

Answer 400

ADJ. /有害的/harmful; damaging. The candidate's acceptance of major financial contributions from a well?known racist ultimately proved detrimental to his campaign, for he lost the backing of many of his early grassroots sup?porters. detriment, N.

Question 401

deviate

Answer 401

V. /背离/turn away from (a principle, norm); depart; diverge. Richard never deviated from his daily routine: every day he set off for work at eight o'clock, had his sack lunch (peanut butter on whole wheat) at 12:15, and headed home at the stroke of five.

Question 402

devious

Answer 402

ADJ. /拐弯抹角的；偏僻的/roundabout; erratic; not straightforward. The Joker's plan was so devious that it was only with great diffi?culty we could follow its shifts and dodges.

Question 403

devise

Answer 403

V. /设计；发明/think up; invent; plan. How clever he must be to have devised such a devious plan! What ingenious inven?tions might he have devised if he had turned his mind to science and not to crime.

Question 404

devoid

Answer 404

ADJ. /缺乏的/lacking. You may think her mind is a total void, but she's actually not devoid of intelligence. She just sounds like an airhead.

Question 405

devotee

Answer 405

N. /热心的追随者/enthusiastic follower. A devotee of the opera, he bought season tickets every year.

Question 406

devout

Answer 406

ADJ. /虔诚的；诚恳的/pious. The devout man prayed daily.

Question 407

dexterous

Answer 407

ADJ. /灵巧的；右撇子/skillful. The magician was so dexterous that we could not follow him as he performed his tricks.

Question 408

diabolical

Answer 408

ADJ. /恶魔的/devilish. "What a fiend I am, to devise such a diabolical scheme to destroy Gotham City," chortled the Joker gleefully.

Question 409

diagnosis

Answer 409

N. /诊断/art of identifying a disease; analysis of a con?dition. In medical school Margaret developed her skill at diagnosis, learning how to read volumes from a rapid pulse or a hacking cough. diagnose, V.; diagnostic,ADJ.

Question 410

discomfit

Answer 410

V. /扰乱/put to rout; defeat; disconcert. This ruse will discomfitthe enemy. discomfiture, N. discomfited,ADJ.

Question 411

discomposure

Answer 411

N. /心乱；不安/agitation; loss of poise. Perpetually poised, Agent 007 never exhibited a moment's discompo?sure.

Question 412

disconcert

Answer 412

V. /迷惑；扰乱；使难堪/confuse; upset; embarrass. The lawyer was disconcerted by the evidence produced by her adversary.

Question 413

disconsolate

Answer 413

ADJ. /悲伤；沮丧/sad. The death of his wife left him dis?consolate.

Question 414

discord

Answer 414

N. /冲突的；不和谐的/conflict; lack of harmony. Watching Tweedle?dum battle Tweedledee, Alice wondered what had caused this pointless discord.

Question 415

discordant

Answer 415

ADJ. /不和谐的；冲突的/not harmonious; conflicting. Nothing is quite so discordant as the sound of a junior high school orchestra tuning up.

Question 416

discount

Answer 416

V. /漠视；解散/disregard; dismiss. Be prepared to discount what he has to say about his ex-wife.

Question 417

discourse

Answer 417

N. /演讲；谈话/formal discussion; conversation. The young Plato was drawn to the Agora to hear the philosophical dis?course of Socrates and his followers. alsoV.

Question 418

discredit

Answer 418

V. /不信任；丢脸/defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve. The campaign was highly negative in tone; each candidate tried to discredit the other.

Question 419

discrepancy

Answer 419

N. /相差；缺乏一致/lack of consistency; difference. The police noticed some discrepancies in his description of the crime and did not believe him.

Question 420

discrete

Answer 420

ADJ. /分离；没有关系的/separate; unconnected. The universe is com?posed of discrete bodies.

Question 421

discretion

Answer 421

N. /判断力；审慎的/prudence; ability to adjust actions to circum?stances. Use your discretion in this matter and do not dis?cuss it with anyone. discreet,ADJ.

Question 422

discriminating

Answer 422

ADJ. /有识别能力的；有偏见的/able to see differences; prejudiced. A superb interpreter of Picasso, she was sufficiently discrimi?nating to judge the most complex works of modern art. (secondary meaning) discrimination, N.

Question 423

discursive

Answer 423

ADJ. /散漫的；不得要领的/digressing; rambling. As the lecturer wan?dered from topic to topic, we wondered what if any point there was to his discursive remarks.

Question 424

disdain

Answer 424

V. /蔑视/view with scorn or contempt. In the film Funny Face, the bookish heroine disdained fashion models for their lack of intellectual interests. also N.

Question 425

disembark

Answer 425

V. /登陆；靠岸/go ashore; unload cargo from a ship. Before the passengers could disembark, they had to pick up their passports from the ship's purser.

Question 426

disenfranchise

Answer 426

V. /剥夺（公民权）/deprive of a civil right. The imposition of the poll tax effectively disenfranchised poor Southern blacks, who lost their right to vote.

Question 427

disengage

Answer 427

V. /脱离；分离/uncouple; separate; disconnect. A standard movie routine involves the hero's desperate attempt to dis?engage a railroad car from a moving train.

Question 428

disfigure

Answer 428

V. /诬陷，抹黑，诽谤/mar in beauty; spoil. An ugly frown disfigured his normally pleasant face.

Question 429

disgorge

Answer 429

V. /吐出，涌出，呕吐/surrender something; eject; vomit. Unwilling to disgorge the cash he had stolen from the pension fund, the embezzler tried to run away.

Question 430

disgruntle

Answer 430

V. /使郁闷/make discontented. The passengers were disgruntled by the numerous delays.

Question 431

dishearten

Answer 431

V. /挫败/discourage; cause to lose courage or hope. His failure to pass the bar exam disheartened him.

Question 432

disheveled

Answer 432

ADJ. /邋遢，肮脏/untidy. Your disheveled appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.

Question 433

disinclination

Answer 433

N. /不情愿，厌恶/unwillingness. Some mornings I feel a great disinclination to get out of bed

Question 434

disingenuous

Answer 434

ADJ. /不诚恳的/lacking genuine candor; insincere. Now that we know the mayor and his wife are engaged in a bitter divorce fight, we find their earlier remarks regretting their lack of time together remarkably disingenuous.

Question 435

disinter

Answer 435

V. /挖出，出土/dig up; unearth. They disinterred the body and held an autopsy.

Question 436

disinterested

Answer 436

ADJ. /公允的/unprejudiced. Given the judge's political ambitions and the lawyers' financial interest in the case, the only disinterested person in the courtroom may have been the court reporter.

Question 437

disjointed

Answer 437

ADJ. /断开/disconnected. His remarks were so dis?jointed that we could not follow his reasoning.

Question 438

dislodge

Answer 438

V. /强制移除/remove (forcibly). Thrusting her fist up under the choking man's lower ribs, Margaret used the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge the food caught in his throat.

Question 439

dismantle

Answer 439

V. /拆除/take apart. When the show closed, they dis?mantled the scenery before storing it.

Question 440

dismay

Answer 440

V. /使沮丧；使害怕/discourage; frighten. The huge amount of work she had left to do dismayed her. also N.

Question 441

dismember

Answer 441

V. /分解，肢解/cut into small parts. When the Austrian Empire was dismembered, several new countries were established.

Question 442

dismiss

Answer 442

V. /拒绝；排除/put away from consideration; reject. Believing in John's love for her, she dismissed the notion that he might be unfaithful. (secondary meaning)

Question 443

disparage

Answer 443

V. /忽略，轻视/belittle. A doting mother, Emma was more likely to praise her son's crude attempts at art than to dis?parage them.

Question 444

disparate

Answer 444

ADJ. /大相径庭的；没关系的/basically different; unrelated. Unfortunately, Tony and Tina have disparate notions of marriage: Tony sees it as a carefree extended love affair, while Tina sees it as a solemn commitment to build a family and a home.

Question 445

disparity

Answer 445

N. /不同；差距/difference; condition of inequality. Their dis?parity in rank made no difference at all to the prince and Cinderella.

Question 446

dispassionate

Answer 446

ADJ. /平静的；公平的/calm; impartial. Known in the company for his cool judgment, Bill could impartially examine the causes of a problem, giving a dispassionate analysis of what had gone wrong, and go on to suggest how to correct the mess.

Question 447

dispatch

Answer 447

N. /急速；急件/speediness; prompt execution; message sent with all due speed. Young Napoleon defeated the enemy with all possible dispatch; he then sent a dispatch to head?quarters informing his commander of the great victory. alsoV.

Question 448

dispel

Answer 448

V. /散开；分裂；消失/scatter; drive away; cause to vanish. The bright sunlight eventually dispelled the morning mist.

Question 449

disperse

Answer 449

V. /散开/scatter. The police fired tear gas into the crowd to disperse the protesters. dispersion, N.

Question 450

dispirited

Answer 450

ADJ. /没情绪的，沮丧的/lacking in spirit. The coach used all the tricks at his command to buoy up the enthusiasm of his team, which had become dispirited at the loss of the star player.

Question 451

disputatious

Answer 451

ADJ. /好辩的/argumentative; fond of arguing. Con?vinced he knew more than his lawyers, Alan was a disputa?tious client, ready to argue about the best way to conduct the case. disputant, N.

Question 452

disquiet

Answer 452

V. /使焦虑，使难受/make uneasy or anxious. Holmes's absence for a day, slightly disquieted Watson; after a week with no word, however, Watson's uneasiness about his missing friend had grown into a deep fear for his safety. disquietude, N.

Question 453

dissection

Answer 453

N. /分析；解剖/analysis; cutting apart in order to examine. The dissection of frogs in the laboratory is particularly unpleasant to some students.

Question 454

dissemble

Answer 454

V. /伪装，做作，掩饰/disguise; pretend. Even though John tried to dissemble his motive for taking modern dance, we all knew he was there not to dance but to meet girls.

Question 455

disseminate

Answer 455

V. /分发，扩散，散布/distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds). By their use of the Internet, propagandists have been able to disseminate their pet doctrines to new audiences around the globe.

Question 456

dissent

Answer 456

V. /反对/disagree. In the recent Supreme Court decision, Justice O'Connor dissented from the majority opinion. also N.

Question 457

dissertation

Answer 457

N. /论文（博士生）/formal essay. In order to earn a graduate degree from many of our universities, a candidate is fre?quently required to prepare a dissertation on some schol?arly subject.

Question 458

dissident

Answer 458

ADJ. /持不同意见的；难于对付的/dissenting; rebellious. In the purge that fol?lowed the student demonstrations at Tiananmen Square, the government hunted down the dissident students and their supporters. also N.

Question 459

dissimulate

Answer 459

V. /伪装，做作，掩饰/pretend; conceal by feigning. She tried to dissimulate her grief by her exuberant attitude.

Question 460

dissipate

Answer 460

V. /驱散，消散；浪费/squander; waste; scatter. He is a fine artist, but I fear he may dissipate his gifts if he keeps wasting his time playing games.

Question 461

dissolute

Answer 461

ADJ. /放纵，挥霍/loose in morals. The dissolute life led by the ancient Romans is indeed shocking.

Question 462

dissolution

Answer 462

N. /解散；终止；解体/breaking of a union; decay; termination. Which caused King Lear more suffering: the dissolution of his kingdom into warring factions, or the dissolution of his aged, failing body?

Question 463

dissonance

Answer 463

N. /不和谐的（声音）/discord. Composer Charles Ives often used dissonance-clashing or unresolved chords-for special effects in his musical works.

Question 464

dissuade

Answer 464

V. /劝阻；使灰心/persuade not to do; discourage. Since Tom could not dissuade Huck from running away from home, he decided to run away with him. dissuasion, N.

Question 465

distant

Answer 465

ADJ. /冷漠的；远离的/reserved or aloof; cold in manner. His distant greeting made me feel unwelcome from the start. (sec?ondary meaning)

Question 466

distend

Answer 466

V. /扩大；扩张/expand; swell out. I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins distend on his forehead.

Question 467

distill

Answer 467

V. /蒸馏；萃取，提炼，提纯/extract the essence; purify; refine. A moonshiner distills mash into whiskey; an epigrammatist distills thoughts into quips.

Question 468

distinction

Answer 468

N. /出名；出格/honor; contrast; discrimination. A holder of the Medal of Honor, George served with great distinction in World War II. He made a distinction, however, between World War II and Vietnam, which he considered an immoral conflict.

Question 469

distort

Answer 469

V. /扭曲，歪曲/twist out of shape. It is difficult to believe the newspaper accounts of the riots because of the way some reporters distort and exaggerate the actual events. distor?tion, N.

Question 470

distraught

Answer 470

ADJ. /使悲伤；使焦虑/upset; distracted by anxiety. The dis?traught parents frantically searched the ravine for their lost child.

Question 471

diurnal

Answer 471

ADJ. /日常的/daily. A farmer cannot neglect his diurnal tasks at any time; cows, for example, must be milked regularly.

Question 472

diva

Answer 472

N. /著名女歌唱家，天后；歌剧女主角/operatic singer; prima donna. Although world famous as a diva, she did not indulge in fits of tempera?ment. ..

Question 473

diverge

Answer 473

V. /多样的；各异的/vary; go in different directions from the same point. The spokes of the wheel diverge from the hub.

Question 474

divergent

Answer 474

ADJ. /分歧的/differing; deviating. Since graduating from medical school, the two doctors have taken divergent paths, one going on to become a nationally prominent sur?geon, the other dedicating himself to a small family practice in his home town. divergence, N.

Question 475

diverse

Answer 475

ADJ. /丰富多样的/differing in some characteristics; various. The professor suggested diverse ways of approaching the assignment and recommended that we choose one of them. diversity, N.

Question 476

diversion

Answer 476

N. /转移；解闷/act of turning aside; pastime. After studying for several hours, he needed a diversion from work. divert,V.

Question 477

diversity

Answer 477

N. /多样性/variety; dissimilitude. The diversity of colleges in this country indicates that many levels of ability are being cared for.

Question 478

divest

Answer 478

V. /剥夺/strip; deprive. He was divested of his power to act and could no longer govern. divestiture, N.

Question 479

divine

Answer 479

V. /运用直觉，超能力；预见/perceive intuitively; foresee the future. Nothing infuriated Tom more than Aunt Polly's ability to divine when he was telling the truth.

Question 480

divulge

Answer 480

V. /揭开，暴露/reveal. No lover of gossip, Charlotte would never divulge anything that a friend told her in confidence.

Question 481

docile

Answer 481

ADJ. /驯服的，听话的；善良的/obedient; easily managed. As docile as he seems today, that old lion was once a ferocious, snarling beast. docility, N.

Question 482

doctrinaire

Answer 482

ADJ. /教条的；顽固的/unable to compromise about points of doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding. Weng had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change in China, but the repressive response of the doctri?naire hard-liners crushed his dreams of democracy.

Question 483

doctrine

Answer 483

N. /教育；学说/teachings, in general; particular principle (reli?gious, legal, etc.) taught. He was so committed to the doc?trines of his faith that he was unable to evaluate them impartially.

Question 484

document

Answer 484

V. /书面证明/provide written evidence. She kept all the receipts from her business trip in order to document her expenses for the firm. also N.

Question 485

doff

Answer 485

V. /脱/take off. A gentleman used to doff his hat to a lady.

Question 486

dogged

Answer 486

ADJ. /顽固的；顽强的/determined; stubborn. Les Miserables tells of Inspector Javert's long, dogged pursuit of the criminal Jean Valjean.

Question 487

doggerel

Answer 487

N. /打油诗/poor verse. Although we find occasional snatches of genuine poetry in her work, most of her writing is mere doggerel.

Question 488

dogmatic

Answer 488

ADJ. /独断的，教条的，固执的/opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal. We tried to discourage Doug from being so dogmatic, but never could convince him that his opinions might be wrong.

Question 489

doldrums

Answer 489

N. /忧郁，悲伤/blues; listlessness; slack period. Once the excitement of meeting her deadline was over, she found herself in the doldrums.

Question 490

doleful

Answer 490

ADJ. /悲伤/sorrowful. He found the doleful lamentations of the bereaved family emotionally disturbing and he left as quickly as he could.

Question 491

dolt

Answer 491

N. /愚蠢的人，蠢货/stupid person. I thought I was talking to a mature audience; instead, I find myself addressing a pack of dolts and idiots.

Question 492

domicile

Answer 492

N. /家/home. Although his legal domicile was in New York City, his work kept him away from his residence for many years. alsoV.

Question 493

domineer

Answer 493

V. /暴力压制/rule over tyrannically. Students prefer teach?ers who guide, not ones who domineer.

Question 494

don

Answer 494

V. /穿上/put on. When Clark Kent has to don his Superman outfit, he changes clothes in a convenient phone booth.