Barrons 3500 D

Question 1

harbor

Answer 1

V. /庇护；隐藏/provide a refuge for; hide. The church harbored illegal aliens who were political refugees.

Question 2

hardy

Answer 2

ADJ. /艰苦的；勇敢的/sturdy; robust; able to stand inclement weather. We asked the gardening expert to recommend particularly hardy plants that could withstand our harsh New England winters.

Question 3

harrowing

Answer 3

ADJ. /痛苦；悲怆/agonizing; distressing; traumatic. At first the former prisoner did not wish to discuss his harrowing months of captivity as a political hostage.

Question 4

haughtiness

Answer 4

N. /傲慢；不逊/pride; arrogance. When she realized that Darcy believed himself too good to dance with his inferiors, Elizabeth took great offense at his haughtiness.

Question 5

hazardous

Answer 5

ADJ. d/危险/angerous. Your occupation is too haz?ardous for insurance companies to consider your application.

Question 6

hazy

Answer 6

ADJ. /朦胧的；模糊的/slightly obscure. In hazy weather, you cannot see the top of this mountain.

Question 7

headlong

Answer 7

ADJ. /轻率的/hasty; rash. The slave seized the unex?pected chance to make a headlong dash across the border to freedom.

Question 8

headstrong

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ADJ. /硬脖子；任性；不屈/stubborn; willful; unyielding. Because she refused to marry the man her parents had chosen for her, everyone scolded Minna and called her a foolish head?strong girl.

Question 9

heckler

Answer 9

N. /质问者/person who harasses others. The heckler kept interrupting the speaker with rude remarks. heckle,V.

Question 10

hedonist

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N. /享乐主义者/one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life. A thoroughgoing hedonist, he considered only his own pleasure and ignored any claims others had on his money or time.

Question 11

heed

Answer 11

V. /注意，关注，留意/pay attention to; consider. We hope you heed our advice and get a good night’s sleep before the test. also N.

Question 12

heedless

Answer 12

ADJ. /轻蔑的；不理睬的/not noticing; disregarding. He drove on, heedless of the danger warnings placed at the side of the road.

Question 13

heinous

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ADJ. /可恶的，令人深恶痛绝/atrocious; hatefully bad. Hitler’s heinous crimes will never be forgotten.

Question 14

herbivorous

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ADJ. /吃粮食的（动物）/grain-eating. Some herbivorous animals have two stomachs for digesting their food.

Question 15

heresy

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N. /少数意见，异端/opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion con?trary to accepted religion. Galileo’s assertion that the earth moved around the sun directly contradicted the religious teachings of his day; as a result, he was tried for heresy. heretic, N.

Question 16

hermetic

Answer 16

ADJ. /密封的，气密的/sealed by fusion so as to be airtight. After you sterilize the bandages, place them in a container and seal it with a hermetic seal to protect them from contamina?tion by airborne bacteria.

Question 17

hermitage

Answer 17

N. /隐居的居所/home of a hermit. Even in his remote her?mitage he could not escape completely from the world.

Question 18

heterodox

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ADJ. /非主流；异端/unorthodox; unconventional. To those who upheld the belief that the earth did not move, Galileo’s the?ory that the earth circled the sun was disturbingly heterodox.

Question 19

heterogeneous

Answer 19

ADJ. /异类，异种；不纯/dissimilar; mixed. This year’s entering class is a remarkably heterogeneous body: it includes stu?dents from forty different states and twenty-six foreign countries, some the children of billionaires, others the off?spring of welfare families. heterogenity, N.

Question 20

heyday

Answer 20

N. /鼎盛时期/time of greatest success; prime. In their hey?day, the San Francisco Forty-Niners won the Super Bowl two years running.

Question 21

hiatus

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N. /缝隙；短暂的空白/gap; interruption in duration or continuity; pause. During the summer hiatus, many students try to earn enough money to pay their tuition for the next school year.

Question 22

hibernal

Answer 22

ADJ. /冬天的/wintry. Bears prepare for their long hibernal sleep by overeating.

Question 23

hibernate

Answer 23

V. /冬眠/sleep throughout the winter. Bears are one of the many species of animals that hibernate. hibernation, N.

Question 24

hierarchy

Answer 24

N. /分级，排序了的/arrangement by rank or standing; authoritar?ian body divided into ranks. To be low man on the totem pole is to have an inferior place in the hierarchy.

Question 25

hilarity

Answer 25

N. /狂欢，欢闹/boisterous mirth. This hilarity is improper on this solemn day of mourning.

Question 26

hindrance

Answer 26

N. /障碍物/block; obstacle. Stalled cars along the high?way are a hindrance to traffic that tow trucks should remove without delay. hinder,V.

Question 27

histrionic

Answer 27

ADJ. /戏剧性的/theatrical. He was proud of his histrionic ability and wanted to play the role of Hamlet, histrionics, N.

Question 28

hoard

Answer 28

V. /储藏/stockpile; accumulate for future use. Whenever there are rumors of a food shortage, many people are tempted to hoard food. also N.

Question 29

hoary

Answer 29

ADJ. /灰白的/white with age. The man was hoary and wrin?kled when he was 70.

Question 30

hoax

Answer 30

N. /伎俩；小聪明/trick; practical joke. Embarrassed by the hoax, he reddened and left the room. alsoV.

Question 31

hodgepodge

Answer 31

N. /大杂烩/jumble; mixture of ill-suited elements. The reviewer roundly condemned the play as a hodgepodge of random and purposeless encounters carried out by a cast lacking any uniformity of accent or style.

Question 32

holster

Answer 32

N. /手枪套/pistol case. Even when he was not in uniform, he carried a holster and pistol under his arm.

Question 33

homage

Answer 33

N. /敬意/honor; tribute. In her speech she tried to pay homage to a great man.

Question 34

homogeneous

Answer 34

ADJ. /同类的/of the same kind. Because the student body at Elite Prep was so homogeneous, Sara and James decided to send their daughter to a school that offered greater cultural diversity. homogenize,V.

Question 35

hone

Answer 35

V. /磨尖/sharpen. To make shaving easier, he honed his razor with great care.

Question 36

hoodwink

Answer 36

V. /欺骗，迷惑，蛊惑/deceive; delude. Having been hoodwinked once by the fast-talking salesman, he was extremely cau?tious when he went to purchase a used car.

Question 37

horde

Answer 37

N. /拥挤/crowd. Just before Christmas the stores are filled with hordes of shoppers.

Question 38

horticultural

Answer 38

ADJ. /园艺的/pertaining to cultivation of gardens. When he bought his house, he began to look for flowers and decorative shrubs, and began to read books dealing with horticultural matters.

Question 39

host

Answer 39

N. /很多；主人；宿主/great number; person entertaining guests; animal or plant from which a parasite gets its nourishment. You must attend to a host of details if you wish to succeed as host of a formal dinner party. Leeches are parasites that cling to their hosts and drink their hosts' blood.

Question 40

hostility

Answer 40

N. /不友好，敌意/unfriendliness; hatred. A child who has been the sole object of his parents' affection often feels hostility toward a new baby in the family, resenting the newcomer who has taken his place.

Question 41

hovel

Answer 41

N. /小屋/shack; small, wretched house. He wondered how poor people could stand living in such a hovel.

Question 42

hover

Answer 42

V. /逗留；盘旋；等待/hang about; wait nearby. The police helicopter hovered above the accident.

Question 43

hue

Answer 43

N. /色调/color; aspect. The aviary contained birds of every possible hue.

Question 44

hulking

Answer 44

ADJ. /大量的，巨大的/massive; bulky; great in size. Despite his hulking build, the heavyweight boxing champion was sur?prisingly light on his feet. hulk, N.

Question 45

humane

Answer 45

ADJ. /仁慈/marked by kindness or consideration. It is ironic that the Humane Society sometimes must show its compassion toward mistreated animals by killing them to put them out of their misery.

Question 46

humdrum

Answer 46

ADJ. /单调的/dull; monotonous. After his years of adven?ture, he could not settle down to a humdrum existence.

Question 47

humid

Answer 47

ADJ. /潮湿的/damp. She could not stand the humid climate and moved to a drier area.

Question 48

humility

Answer 48

N. /谦逊/humbleness of spirit. He spoke with a humility and lack of pride that impressed his listeners.

Question 49

hurtle

Answer 49

V. /冲击；碰撞；急冲/crash; rush. The runaway train hurtled toward dis?aster.

Question 50

husband

Answer 50

V. /节约/use sparingly; conserve; save. Marathon run?ners must husband their energy so that they can keep going for the entire distance.

Question 51

hybrid

Answer 51

N. /混合的，混血的/mongrel; mixed breed. Mendel's formula explains the appearance of hybrids and pure species in breeding. alsoADJ.

Question 52

hydrophobia

Answer 52

N. /恐水症；狂犬病/rabies; fear of water. A dog that bites a human being must be observed for symptoms of hydropho?bia.

Question 53

hyperbole

Answer 53

N. /夸张/exaggeration; overstatement. As far as I'm concerned, Apple's claims about the new computer are pure hyperbole: no machine is that good!

Question 54

hypercritical

Answer 54

ADJ. /及其夸张/excessively exacting. You are hypercriti?cal in your demands for perfection; we all make mistakes.

Question 55

hypochondriac

Answer 55

N. /无病呻吟；忧郁症/person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness. The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a hypochondriac.

Question 56

hypocritical

Answer 56

ADJ. /伪善；欺骗/pretending to be virtuous; deceiving. Believing Eddie to be interested only in his own advance?ment, Greg resented his hypocritical posing as a friend. hypocrisy, N.

Question 57

hypothetical

Answer 57

ADJ. /基于假设的，设想的，假想的/based on assumptions or hypotheses; supposed. Suppose you are accepted by Harvard, Stan?ford, and Brown. Which one would you choose to attend? Remember, this is only a hypothetical situation. hypothe?SiS, N.

Question 58

ichthyology

Answer 58

N. /鱼类学/study of fish. Jacques Cousteau's pro?grams about sea life have advanced the cause of ichthyol?ogy

Question 59

icon

Answer 59

N. /偶像，象征；图标/religious image; idol. The icons on the walls of the church were painted in the 13th century.

Question 60

iconoclastic

Answer 60

ADJ. /打破旧习/attacking cherished traditions. Deeply iconoclastic, Jean Genet deliberately set out to shock con?ventional theatergoers with his radical plays.

Question 61

ideology

Answer 61

N. /意识形态/system of ideas of a group. For people who had grown up believing in the communist ideology, it was hard to adjust to capitalism.

Question 62

idiom

Answer 62

N. /习语；成语/expression whose meaning as a whole differs from the meanings of its individual words; distinctive style. The phrase "to lose one's marbles" is an idiom: if I say that Joe's lost his marbles, I'm not asking you to find some for him. I'm telling you idiomatically that he's crazy.

Question 63

idiosyncrasy

Answer 63

N. /特性，特质；古怪的，离心的/individual trait, usually odd in nature; eccentricity. One of Richard Nixon's little idiosyncrasies was his liking for ketchup on cottage cheese. One of Hannibal Lecter's little idiosyncrasies was his liking for human flesh. idiosyncratic,ADJ.

Question 64

idolatry

Answer 64

N. /过度崇拜/worship of idols; excessive admiration. Such idolatry of singers of country music is typical of the exces?sive enthusiasm of youth.

Question 65

ignite

Answer 65

V. /点燃/kindle; light. When Desi crooned, "Baby, light my fire," literal-minded Lucy looked around for some paper to ignite.

Question 66

ignoble

Answer 66

ADJ. /不高贵的；不光彩的/of lowly origin; unworthy. This plan is inspired by ignoble motives and I must, therefore, oppose it.

Question 67

ignominy

Answer 67

N. /丢脸；抹黑；耻辱/deep disgrace; shame or dishonor. To lose the Ping-Pong match to a trained chimpanzee! How could Rollo stand the ignominy of his defeat? ignominious,ADJ.

Question 68

illicit

Answer 68

ADJ. /非法的/illegal. The defense attorney maintained that his client had never performed any illicit action.

Question 69

illimitable

Answer 69

ADJ. /无限/infinite. Man, having explored the far corners of the earth, is now reaching out into illimitable space.

Question 70

illuminate

Answer 70

V. /照亮；明朗；澄清/brighten; clear up or make understandable; enlighten. Just as a lamp can illuminate a dark room, a per?ceptive comment can illuminate a knotty problem.

Question 71

illusion

Answer 71

N. /幻觉/misleading vision. It is easy to create an optical illusion in which lines of equal length appear different.

Question 72

illusory

Answer 72

ADJ. /虚幻的，不真实的/deceptive; not real. Unfortunately, the costs of running the lemonade stand were so high that Tom's profits proved illusory.

Question 73

imbalance

Answer 73

N. /不平衡，不成比例/lack of balance or symmetry; disproportion. To correct racial imbalance in the schools, school boards have bussed black children into white neighborhoods and white children into black ones.

Question 74

imbibe

Answer 74

V. /吸收/drink in. The dry soil imbibed the rain quickly.

Question 75

immaculate

Answer 75

ADJ. /无暇的/spotless; flawless; absolutely clean. Ken and Jessica were wonderful tenants and left the apartment in immaculate condition when they moved out.

Question 76

imminent

Answer 76

ADJ. /即将到来，逼近的/near at hand; impending. Rosa was such a last-minute worker that she could never start writing a paper till the deadline was imminent.

Question 77

immobility

Answer 77

N. /无法移动，不可移动的/state of being immovable. Modern armies cannot afford the luxury of immobility, as they are vulnera?ble to attack while standing still.

Question 78

immune

Answer 78

ADJ. /免疫；抵抗/resistant to; free or exempt from. Fortunately, Florence had contracted chicken pox as a child and was immune to it when her baby broke out in spots.

Question 79

immutable

Answer 79

ADJ. /不可动摇的，不能改变的/unchangeable. All things change over time; nothing is immutable.

Question 80

impair

Answer 80

V. /伤害/injure; hurt. Drinking alcohol can impair your abil?ity to drive safely; if you're going to drink, don't drive.

Question 81

impale

Answer 81

V. /刺穿/Pierce. He was impaled by the spear hurled by his adversary.

Question 82

impalpable

Answer 82

ADJ. /难以明了，难以觉察的/imperceptible; intangible. The ash is so fine that it is impalpable to the touch but it can be seen as a fine layer covering the window ledge.

Question 83

impart

Answer 83

V. /赋予；告诉/reveal or tell; grant. Polly begged Grandma to impart her recipe for rugeleh, but her grandmother wouldn't say a word.

Question 84

impartial

Answer 84

ADJ. /公平的/not biased; fair. Knowing she could not be impartial about her own child, Jo refused to judge any match in which Billy was competing.

Question 85

impassable

Answer 85

ADJ. /无路可通的；没法通行/not able to be traveled or crossed. A giant redwood had fallen across the highway, blocking all four lanes: the road was impassable.

Question 86

impasse

Answer 86

N. /走投无路；僵局/predicament from which there is no escape; deadlock. In this impasse, all turned to prayer as their last hope.

Question 87

impassive

Answer 87

ADJ. /冷漠的/without feeling; imperturbable; stoical. Refusing to let the enemy see how deeply shaken he was by his capture, the prisoner kept his face impassive.

Question 88

impeach

Answer 88

V. /控告，检举；弹劾/charge with crime in office; indict. The angry congressman wanted to impeach the president for his mis?deeds.

Question 89

impeccable

Answer 89

ADJ. /没有缺点/faultless. The uncrowned queen of the fashion industry, Diana was acclaimed for her impeccable taste.

Question 90

impecunious

Answer 90

ADJ. /身无分文的/without money. Though Scrooge claimed he was too impecunious to give alms, he easily could have afforded to be charitable.

Question 91

impede

Answer 91

V. /阻止；拖延/hinder; block; delay. A series of accidents impeded the launching of the space shuttle.

Question 92

impediment

Answer 92

N. /妨碍；障碍物/hindrance; stumbling-block. She had a speech impediment that prevented her speaking clearly.

Question 93

impel

Answer 93

V. /驱使/drive or force onward. A strong feeling of urgency impelled her; if she failed to finish the project right then, she knew that she would never get it done.

Question 94

impenetrable

Answer 94

ADJ. /难以进入的；难以渗透的；不可理解的/not able to be pierced or entered; beyond understanding. How could the murderer have got?ten into the locked room? To Watson, the mystery, like the room, was impenetrable.

Question 95

impending

Answer 95

ADJ. /接近的；附近的/nearing; approaching. The entire country was saddened by the news of his impending death.

Question 96

impenitent

Answer 96

ADJ. /执迷不悟的/not repentant. We could see from his tough guy attitude that he was impenitent.

Question 97

imperative

Answer 97

ADJ. /及其重要，及其关键/absolutely necessary; critically important. It is imperative that you be extremely agreeable to Great?Aunt Maud when she comes to tea: otherwise she might not leave you that million dollars in her will. also N.

Question 98

imperceptible

Answer 98

ADJ. /察觉不到的/unnoticeable; undetectable. Fortu?nately, the stain on the blouse was imperceptible after the blouse had gone through the wash.

Question 99

imperial

Answer 99

ADJ. /帝王的；皇帝的/like an emperor; related to an empire. When hotel owner Leona Helmsley appeared in ads as Queen Leona standing guard over the Palace Hotel, her critics mocked her imperial fancies.

Question 100

imperious

Answer 100

ADJ. /专横的/domineering; haughty. Jane rather liked a man to be masterful, but Mr. Rochester seemed so bent on getting his own way that he was actually imperious!

Question 101

impermeable

Answer 101

ADJ. /不能渗透的/impervious; not permitting passage through its substance. This new material is impermeable to liquids.

Question 102

impertinent

Answer 102

ADJ. /不相干的；鲁莽的/insolent; rude. His neighbors' impertinent curiosity about his lack of dates angered Ted. It was down?right rude of them to ask him such personal questions.

Question 103

imperturbable

Answer 103

ADJ. /沉着冷静；平静/calm; placid; composed. In the midst of the battle, the Duke of Wellington remained imper?turbable and in full command of the situation despite the hysteria and panic all around him. imperturbability, N.

Question 104

Impervious

Answer 104

ADJ. /不会被损的；不能渗透的/impenetrable; incapable of being dam?aged or distressed. The carpet salesman told Simone that his most expensive brand of floor covering was warranted to be impervious to ordinary wear and tear. Having read so many negative reviews of his acting, the movie star had learned to ignore them, and was now impervious to criticism.

Question 105

impetuous

Answer 105

ADJ. /冲动的，鲁莽的/violent; hasty; rash. "Leap before you look" was the motto suggested by one particularly impetuous young man.

Question 106

impetus

Answer 106

N. /动力；动机/incentive; stimulus; moving force. A new fed?eral highway program would create jobs and give added impetus to our economic recovery.

Question 107

impiety

Answer 107

N. /不敬（对神）；不虔诚/irreverence; lack of respect for God. When members of the youth group draped the church in toilet paper one Halloween, the minister reprimanded them for their impiety.

Question 108

impinge

Answer 108

V. /撞击；碰撞/infringe; touch;. collide with. How could they be married without impinging on one another's freedom?

Question 109

impious

Answer 109

ADJ. /不敬的；不礼貌的/irreverent. The congregation was offended by her impious remarks.

Question 110

implacable

Answer 110

ADJ. /不能平静的/incapable of being pacified. Madame Defarge was the implacable enemy of the Evremonde family.

Question 111

implausible

Answer 111

ADJ. /难以置信的；不像是真的/unlikely; unbelievable. Though her alibi seemed implausible, it in fact turned out to be true.

Question 112

implement

Answer 112

V. /贯彻，实现；用工具实现/put into effect; supply with tools. The mayor was unwilling to implement the plan until she was sure it had the governor's backing. also N.

Question 113

implicate

Answer 113

V. /牵连，牵扯（犯罪）；暗示/incriminate; show to be involved. Here's the deal: if you agree to take the witness stand and implicate your partners in crime, the prosecution will recommend that the judge go easy in sentencing you.

Question 114

implication

Answer 114

N. /含义；暗示/something hinted at or suggested. When Miss Watson said she hadn't seen her purse since the last time Jim was in the house, the implication was that she sus?pected Jim had taken it. imply,V.

Question 115

implicit

Answer 115

ADJ. /会意的，意会而不言传；暗示的/understood but not stated. Jack never told Jill he adored her; he believed his love was implicit in his actions.

Question 116

implore

Answer 116

V. /恳求/beg. He implored her to give him a second chance.

Question 117

imply

Answer 117

V. /暗示；表示/suggest a meaning not expressed; signify. When Aunt Millie said, "My! That's a big piece of pie, young man!" was she implying that Bobby was being a glutton in helping himself to such a huge piece?

Question 118

importunate

Answer 118

ADJ. /胡搅蛮缠的；苛刻的/urging; demanding. He tried to hide from his importunate creditors until his allowance arrived.

Question 119

importune

Answer 119

V. /强求；不停的求/beg persistently. Democratic and Republi?can phone solicitors importuned her for contributions so fre?quently that she decided to give nothing to either party.

Question 120

impostor

Answer 120

N. /冒充者；冒名顶替的人/someone who assumes a false identity. Holmes exposed the doctor as an impostor.

Question 121

impotent

Answer 121

ADJ. /无能的；弱的/weak; ineffective. Although he wished to break the nicotine habit, he found himself impotent in resist?ing the craving for a cigarette.

Question 122

impoverished

Answer 122

ADJ. /穷/poor. The loss of their farm left the fam?ily impoverished and without hope.

Question 123

impregnable

Answer 123

ADJ. /不受影响的；无敌的/invulnerable. Until the development of the airplane as a military weapon, the fort was considered impregnable.

Question 124

impromptu

Answer 124

ADJ. /一时冲动的；即兴的/without previous preparation; off the cuff; on the spur of the moment. The judges were amazed that she could make such a thorough, well-supported presenta?tion in an impromptu speech.

Question 125

impropriety

Answer 125

N. /不合适，不恰当/improperness; unsuitableness. Because of the impropriety of the punk rocker's slashed T-shirt and jeans, the management refused to admit him to the hotel's very formal dining room.

Question 126

improvident

Answer 126

ADJ. /浪费的/thriftless. He was constantly being warned to mend his improvident ways and begin to "save for a rainy day." improvidence, N.

Question 127

improvise

Answer 127

V. /临时准备；即席创作，现编/compose on the spur of the moment. She would sit at the piano and improvise for hours on themes from Bach and Handel.

Question 128

imprudent

Answer 128

ADJ. /轻率的，判断错误的/lacking caution; injudicious. It is imprudent to exercise vigorously and become overheated when you are unwell.

Question 129

impudence

Answer 129

N. /无礼；厚颜无耻/impertinence; insolence. Kissed on the cheek by a perfect stranger, Lady Catherine exclaimed, "Of all the nerve! Young man, I should have you horse-whipped for your impudence."

Question 130

impugn

Answer 130

V. /打击；挑战/dispute or contradict (often in an insulting way); challenge; gainsay. Our treasurer was furious when the finance committee's report impugned the accuracy of his financial records and recommended that he should take bonehead math.

Question 131

impunity

Answer 131

N. /免受惩罚/freedom from punishment or harm. A 98?pound weakling can't attack a beachfront bully with impunity. the poor, puny guy is sure to get mashed.

Question 132

inadvertently

Answer 132

ADV. /不经意的/unintentionally; by oversight; care?lessly. Judy's great fear was that she might inadvertently omit a question on the exam and mismark her whole answer sheet.

Question 133

inalienable

Answer 133

ADJ. /无可取代的；不能给与的/not to be taken away; nontransferable. The Declaration of Independence mentions the inalienable rights that all of us possess.

Question 134

inane

Answer 134

ADJ. /傻；粗心/silly; senseless. There's no point to what you're saying. Why are you bothering to make such inane remarks?

Question 135

inanimate

Answer 135

ADJ. /了无生气的，死气沉沉的/lifeless. She was asked to identify the still and inanimate body.

Question 136

inarticulate

Answer 136

ADJ. /不善于表达的；口齿不清的/speechless; producing indistinct speech. He became inarticulate with rage and uttered sounds with?out meaning.

Question 137

inaugurate

Answer 137

V. /开始；开幕；开幕式/start; initiate; install in office. The airline decided to inaugurate its new route to the Far East with a special reduced fare offer. inaugural,ADJ.

Question 138

incandescent

Answer 138

ADJ. /白炽的/strikingly bright; shining with intense heat. If you leave on an incandescent light bulb, it quickly grows too hot to touch.

Question 139

incantation

Answer 139

N. /咒语/singing or chanting of magic spells; magical formula. Uttering incantations to make the brew more potent, the witch doctor stirred the liquid in the caldron.

Question 140

incapacitate

Answer 140

V. /使其无能力/disable. During the winter, many people were incapacitated by respiratory ailments.

Question 141

incarcerate

Answer 141

V. /囚禁/imprison. The civil rights workers were will?ing to be arrested and even incarcerated if by their impris?onment they could serve the cause.

Question 142

incarnation

Answer 142

N. /化身；具人形/act of assuming a human body and human nature. The incarnation of Jesus Christ is a basic tenet of Christian theology.

Question 143

incendiary

Answer 143

N. /纵火者/arsonist. The fire spread in such an unusual manner that the fire department chiefs were certain that it had been set by an incendiary. alsoADJ.

Question 144

incense

Answer 144

V. /激怒/enrage; infuriate. Cruelty to defenseless ani?mals incensed Kit: the very idea brought tears of anger to her eyes.

Question 145

incentive

Answer 145

N. /刺激，驱动/spur; motive. Mike's strong desire to outshine his big sister was all the incentive he needed to do well in school.

Question 146

inception

Answer 146

N. /开始，开端/start; beginning. She was involved with the project from its inception.

Question 147

incessant

Answer 147

ADJ. /不停的/uninterrupted; unceasing. In a famous TV commercial, the frogs' incessant croaking goes on and on until eventually it turns into a single word: "Bud-weis-er."

Question 148

inchoate

Answer 148

ADJ. /未成型的，早期的，刚开始的，发展中的/recently begun; rudimentary; elementary. Before the Creation, the world was an inchoate mass.

Question 149

incidence

Answer 149

N. /发生；发生率；影响的范围、频度；入射角；关联，相结合，对接/rate of occurrence; particular occurrence. Health professionals expressed great concern over the high incidence of infant mortality in major urban areas.

Question 150

incidental

Answer 150

ADJ. /不重要的；少数的/not essential; minor. The scholarship cov?ered his major expenses at college and some of his inci?dental expenses as well.

Question 151

incipient

Answer 151

ADJ. /开始；早期的/beginning; in an early stage. I will go to sleep early for I want to break an incipient cold.

Question 152

incisive

Answer 152

ADJ. /尖锐；深刻，激烈/cutting; sharp. His incisive remarks made us see the fallacy in our plans.

Question 153

incite

Answer 153

V. /煽动，刺激，驱使/arouse to action; goad; motivate; induce to exist. In a fiery speech, Mario incited his fellow students to go out on strike to protest the university's anti-affirmative action stand.

Question 154

inclement

Answer 154

ADJ. /险恶的；严酷的/stormy; unkind. In inclement weather, I like to curl up on the sofa with a good book and listen to the storm blowing outside.

Question 155

incline

Answer 155

N. /倾斜，斜面/slope; slant. The architect recommended that the nursing home's ramp be rebuilt because its incline was too steep for wheelchairs.

Question 156

inclined

Answer 156

ADJ. /倾向；倾向于，弯曲/tending or leaning toward; bent. Though I am inclined to be skeptical, the witness's manner inclines me to believe his story. alsoV.

Question 157

inclusive

Answer 157

ADJ. /包揽一切的/tending to include all. The comedian turned down the invitation to join the Players' Club, saying any club that would let him in was too inclusive for him.

Question 158

incoherent

Answer 158

ADJ. /缺乏逻辑的，不聪明的；陈腐的/unintelligible; muddled; illogical. The excited fan blushed and stammered, her words becoming almost incoherent in the thrill of meeting her favorite rock star face to face. incoherence, N.

Question 159

incompatible

Answer 159

ADJ. /不和谐；不兼容/inharmonious. The married couple argued incessantly and finally decided to separate because they were incompatible. incompatibility, N.

Question 160

incongruous

Answer 160

ADJ. /不调和的；荒谬的/not fitting; absurd. Dave saw nothing incongruous about wearing sneakers with his tuxedo; he couldn't understand why his date took one look at him and started to laugh. incongruity, N.

Question 161

inconsequential

Answer 161

ADJ. /不合理的，不重要的/insignificant; unimportant. Brushing off Ali's apologies for having broken the wineglass, Tamara said, "Don't worry about it; it's inconsequential."

Question 162

inconsistency

Answer 162

N. /不一致的，自相矛盾的/state of being self-contradictory; lack of uniformity or steadiness. How are lawyers different from agricultural inspectors? While lawyers check inconsisten?cies in witnesses' statements, agricultural inspectors check inconsistencies in Grade A eggs. inconsistent,ADJ.

Question 163

incontinent

Answer 163

ADJ. /缺乏自制力，放肆/lacking self-restraint; licentious. His incon?tinent behavior off stage so shocked many people that they refused to attend the plays and movies in which he appeared.

Question 164

incontrovertible

Answer 164

ADJ. /无疑的，无可争议的/indisputable; not open to question. Unless you find the evidence against my client absolutely incontrovertible, you must declare her not guilty of this charge.

Question 165

incorporate

Answer 165

V. /合并，联合/introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite. Breaking with precedent, President Truman ordered the military to incorporate blacks into every branch of the armed services. alsoADJ.

Question 166

incorporeal

Answer 166

ADJ. /非物质的，无形的；无实体的/lacking a material body; insubstantial. While Casper the friendly ghost is an incorporeal being, nevertheless he and his fellow ghosts make quite an impact on the physical world.

Question 167

incorrigible

Answer 167

ADJ. /不可救药/not correctable. Though Widow Douglass hoped to reform Huck, Miss Watson called him incorrigible and said he would come to no good end.

Question 168

incredulous

Answer 168

ADJ. /怀疑的/withholding belief; skeptical. When Jack claimed he hadn't eaten the jelly doughnut, Jill took an incredulous look at his smeared face and laughed. incredulity, N.

Question 169

increment

Answer 169

N. /增加/increase. The new contract calls for a 10 percent increment in salary for each employee for the next two years.

Question 170

incriminate

Answer 170

V. /控告/accuse. The evidence gathered against the racketeers incriminates some high public officials as well.

Question 171

incrustation

Answer 171

N. /驻扎/hard coating or crust. In dry dock, we scraped off the incrustation of dirt and barnacles that cov?ered the hull of the ship.

Question 172

incubate

Answer 172

V. /孵卵/hatch; scheme. Inasmuch as our supply of electricity is cut off, we shall have to rely on the hens to incubate these eggs.

Question 173

inculcate

Answer 173

V. /谆谆教导/teach; instill. In an effort to inculcate religious devotion, the officials ordered that the school day begin with the singing of a hymn.

Question 174

incumbent

Answer 174

ADJ. /义不容辞的，职责在身的/obligatory; currently holding an office. It is incumbent upon all incumbent elected officials to keep accurate records of expenses incurred in office. also N.

Question 175

incur

Answer 175

V. /招致/bring upon oneself. His parents refused to pay any future debts he might incur.

Question 176

incursion

Answer 176

N. /袭击/temporary invasion. The nightly incursions and hit-and-run raids of our neighbors across the border tried the patience of the country to the point where we decided to retaliate in force.

Question 177

indefatigable

Answer 177

ADJ. /疲倦/tireless. Although the effort of taking out the garbage tired Wayne out for the entire morning, when it came to partying, he was indefatigable.

Question 178

indelible

Answer 178

ADJ. /去不掉的；不可磨灭的/not able to be erased. The indelible ink left a permanent mark on my shirt. Young Bill Clinton's meeting with President Kennedy made an indelible impression on the youth.

Question 179

indentation

Answer 179

N. /槽；小开口/notch; deep recess. You can tell one tree from another by examining their leaves and noting the dif?ferences in the indentations along the edges of the leaves. indent,V.

Question 180

indenture

Answer 180

V. /契约/bind as servant or apprentice to master. Many immigrants could come to America only after they had indentured themselves for several years. also N.

Question 181

indeterminate

Answer 181

ADJ. /不确定/uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite. That interest rates shall rise appears certain; when they will do so, however, remains indeterminate.

Question 182

indicative

Answer 182

ADJ. /预示的/suggestive; implying. A lack of appetite may be indicative of a major mental or physical disorder.

Question 183

indices

Answer 183

n. PL. /符号；暗示/signs; indications. Many college admissions officers believe that SAT scores and high school grades are the best indices of a student's potential to succeed in col?lege. N. SG. index.

Question 184

indict

Answer 184

V. /控告；起诉/charge. The district attorney didn't want to indict the suspect until she was sure she had a strong enough case to convince a jury. indictment, N.

Question 185

indifferent

Answer 185

ADJ. /普通的，无关紧要的/unmoved or unconcerned by; mediocre. Because Ann felt no desire to marry, she was indifferent to Carl's constant proposals. Not only was she indifferent to him personally, but she felt that, given his general silliness, he would make an indifferent husband.

Question 186

indigenous

Answer 186

ADJ. native. Cigarettes are made of tobacco, a plant indigenous to the New World.

Question 187

indigent

Answer 187

ADJ. /穷困的/poor; destitute. Someone who is truly indi?gent can't even afford to buy a pack of cigarettes. [Don't mix up indigent and indigenous. See previous sentence.]

Question 188

indignation

Answer 188

N. /义愤；愤慨/anger at an injustice. He felt indignation at the ill-treatment of helpless animals.

Question 189

indignity

Answer 189

N. /侮辱/offensive or insulting treatment. Although he seemed to accept cheerfully the indignities heaped upon him, he was inwardly very angry.

Question 190

indiscretion

Answer 190

N. /轻率；莽撞/lack of tactfulness or sound judgment. Ter?rified that the least indiscretion could jeopardize his political career, the novice politician never uttered an unguarded word. indiscreet,ADJ.

Question 191

indiscriminate

Answer 191

ADJ. /随意的；不分青红皂白的/choosing at random; confused. She disapproved of her son's indiscriminate television viewing and decided to restrict him to educational programs.

Question 192

indisputable

Answer 192

ADJ. /没有争论余地；非常清楚的/too certain to be disputed. In the face of these indisputable statements, I withdraw my complaint.

Question 193

indissoluble

Answer 193

ADJ. /不能分解的；永久的/permanent. The indissoluble bonds of marriage are all too often being dissolved.

Question 194

indoctrinate

Answer 194

V. /教导；灌输/instruct in a doctrine or ideology. Cuban?Americans resisted sending Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba because he would be indoctrinated there with Communist principles.

Question 195

indolent

Answer 195

ADJ. /懒惰/lazy. Couch potatoes lead an indolent life lying back on their Lazyboy recliners watching Tv. indo-lence, N.

Question 196

indomitable

Answer 196

ADJ. /不屈服的；不可被征服的/unconquerable; unyielding. Focusing on her game despite all her personal problems, tennis cham?pion Steffi Graf proved she had an indomitable will to win.

Question 197

indubitable

Answer 197

ADJ. /不容置疑的；无疑的/unable to be doubted; unquestionable. Auditioning for the chorus line, Molly was an indubitable hit: the director fired the leading lady and hired Molly in her place!

Question 198

induce

Answer 198

V. /劝诱；导致，引起/persuade; bring about. After the quarrel, Tina said nothing could induce her to talk to Tony again. induce?ment, N.

Question 199

indulgent

Answer 199

ADJ. /宽容，纵容，溺爱/humoring; yielding; lenient. Jay's mom was excessively indulgent she bought him every Nintendo car?tridge and video game on the market. She indulged Jay so much, she spoiled him rotten.

Question 200

industrious

Answer 200

ADJ. /勤奋的，努力的/diligent; hard-working. Look busy when the boss walks by your desk; it never hurts to appear indus?trious. industry, N.

Question 201

inebriated

Answer 201

ADJ. /醉的/habitually intoxicated; drunk. Abe was ine?briated more often than he was sober. Because of his ine?briety, he was discharged from his job as a bus driver.

Question 202

ineffable

Answer 202

ADJ. /不可言喻的，无法用语言表达的；不能说的，避讳的/unutterable; cannot be expressed in speech. Such ineffable joy must be experienced; it cannot be described.

Question 203

ineffectual

Answer 203

ADJ. /无效的，弱的/not effective; weak. Because the candi?date failed to get across his message to the public, his campaign was ineffectual.

Question 204

inefficacious

Answer 204

ADJ. /无能的，无效的/not effective; unable to produce a desired result. All Lois's coaxing and urging was ineffica?cious: Clark still refused to join her and Superman for din?ner. inefficacy, N.

Question 205

inept

Answer 205

ADJ. /不相称的，不合适的，不称职的/lacking skill; unsuited; incompetent. The inept glovemaker was all thumbs.

Question 206

inequity

Answer 206

N. /不公平/unfairness. In demanding equal pay for equal work, women protest the basic inequity of a system that gives greater financial rewards to men.

Question 207

inert

Answer 207

ADJ. /惰性的，不活跃的/inactive; lacking power to move. "Get up, you lazybones," she cried to her husband, who lay in bed inert. inertia, N.

Question 208

inevitable

Answer 208

ADJ. /不可避免地/unavoidable. Though death and taxes are both supposedly inevitable, some people avoid paying taxes for years.

Question 209

inexorable

Answer 209

ADJ. /无情的；残酷的/relentless; unyielding; implacable. After listening to the pleas for clemency, the judge was inex?orable and gave the convicted man the maximum punish?ment allowed by law.

Question 210

infallible

Answer 210

ADJ. /一贯正确的/unerring. We must remember that none of us is infallible; we all make mistakes.

Question 211

infamous

Answer 211

ADJ. /臭名昭著的，恶名远扬的/notoriously bad. Charles Manson and Jef?frey Dahmer are both infamous killers.

Question 212

infantile

Answer 212

ADJ. /婴儿的，幼稚的/childish. When will he outgrow such infantile behavior?

Question 213

infer

Answer 213

V. /推导，总结/deduce; conclude. From the students' glazed looks, it was easy for me to infer that they were bored out of their minds. inference, N.

Question 214

infernal

Answer 214

ADJ. /魔鬼的，地狱的/pertaining to hell; devilish. Batman was baf?fled: he could think of no way to hinder the Joker's infernal scheme to destroy the city.

Question 215

infidel

Answer 215

N. /异教徒，异端；不信宗教的/unbeliever. The Saracens made war against the infidels.

Question 216

infiltrate

Answer 216

V. /渗透/pass into or through; penetrate (an organiza?tion) sneakily. In order to be able to infiltrate enemy lines at night without being seen, the scouts darkened their faces and wore black coveralls. infiltrator, N.

Question 217

infinitesimal

Answer 217

ADJ. /微小的/very small. In the twentieth century, physi?cists have made their greatest discoveries about the charac?teristics of infinitesimal objects like the atom and its parts.

Question 218

infirmity

Answer 218

N. /弱点/weakness. Her greatest infirmity was lack of willpower.

Question 219

inflated

Answer 219

ADJ. /夸张的，虚华的，被放大的/exaggerated; pompous; enlarged (with air or gas). His claims about the new product were inflated, it did not work as well as he had promised.

Question 220

influx

Answer 220

N. /注入，流入/flowing into. The influx of refugees into the coun?try has taxed the relief agencies severely.

Question 221

informal

Answer 221

ADJ. /非正式的；不拘礼节的/absence of ceremony; casual. The English teacher preferred informal discussions to prepared lectures.

Question 222

infraction

Answer 222

N. /打破（常规）/violation (of a rule or regulation); breach. When Dennis Rodman butted heads with that referee, he committed a clear infraction of NBA rules.

Question 223

infuriate

Answer 223

V. /激怒，热火/enrage; anger. Her big brother's teasing always infuriated Margaret; no matter how hard she tried to keep her temper, he always got her goat.

Question 224

infusion

Answer 224

N. /灌输；浸泡；注入/act of introducing or instilling a quality; liquid solution. The rookie quarterback brought an infusion of new life and vigor to the tired team. infuse,V.

Question 225

ingenious

Answer 225

ADJ. /聪明的/clever; resourceful. Kit admired the inge?nious way that her computer keyboard opened up to reveal the built-in CD-ROM below. ingenuity, N.

Question 226

ingenue

Answer 226

N. /天真无邪的少女；扮演天真无邪的少女的女演员/an artless girl; an actress who plays such parts. Although she was forty, she still insisted that she be cast as an ingenue and refused to play more mature roles.

Question 227

ingenuous

Answer 227

ADJ. /心无城府的；天真的；幼稚的；可信的/naive and trusting; young; unsophisti?cated. The woodsman had not realized how ingenuous Lit?tle Red Riding Hood was until he heard that she had gone off for a walk in the woods with the Big Bad Wolf.

Question 228

ingrained

Answer 228

ADJ. /牢固的；深深扎根的；深入人心的/deeply established; firmly rooted. Try as they would, the missionaries were unable to uproot the ingrained superstitions of the natives.

Question 229

ingrate

Answer 229

N. /忘恩负义者；不领情的人/ungrateful person. That ingrate Bob sneered at the tie I gave him.

Question 230

ingratiate

Answer 230

V. /迎合，讨好；流行开来/become popular with. He tried to ingratiate himself into her parents' good graces.

Question 231

inherent

Answer 231

ADJ. /固有的，内在的；与生俱来的/firmly established by nature or habit. Katya's inherent love of justice caused her to champion anyone she considered treated unfairly by society.

Question 232

inhibit

Answer 232

V. /限制，防止；阻碍/restrain; retard or prevent. Only two things inhib?ited him from taking a punch at Mike Tyson: Tyson's left hook, and Tyson's right jab. The protective undercoating on my car inhibits the formation of rust.

Question 233

inimical

Answer 233

ADJ. /不友好的；敌意的；有害的/unfriendly; hostile; harmful; detrimental. I've always been friendly to Martha. Why is she so inimical to me?

Question 234

inimitable

Answer 234

ADJ. /独一无二的，独特的；防伪的，难以模仿的/matchless; not able to be imitated. We admire Auden for his inimitable use of language; he is one of a kind.

Question 235

iniquitous

Answer 235

ADJ. /邪恶的/wicked; immoral; unrighteous. Whether or not King Richard III was responsible for the murder of the two young princes in the Tower, it was an iniquitous deed. iniquity, N.

Question 236

initiate

Answer 236

V. /开始，发源/begin; originate; receive into a group. The col?lege is about to initiate a program in reducing math anxiety among students.

Question 237

injurious

Answer 237

ADJ./有害的/ harmful. Smoking cigarettes can be injurious to your health.

Question 238

inkling

Answer 238

N. /暗示，提示/hint. This came as a complete surprise to me as I did not have the slightest inkling of your plans.

Question 239

innate

Answer 239

ADJ. /先天的，天生的/inborn. Mozart's parents soon recognized young Wolfgang's innate talent for music.

Question 240

innocuous

Answer 240

ADJ. /无害的，无辜的/harmless. An occasional glass of wine with dinner is relatively innocuous and should have no ill effect on you.

Question 241

innovation

Answer 241

N. /发明；变革/change; introduction of something new. Although Richard liked to keep up with all the latest techno?logical innovations, he didn't always abandon tried and true techniques in favor of something new. innovate,V.

Question 242

innovative

Answer 242

ADJ. /新奇的；创新的/novel; introducing a change. The estab?lishment of our SAT I computer data base has enabled us to come up with some innovative tactics for doing well on the SAT.

Question 243

innuendo

Answer 243

N. /暗示，旁侧敲击；暗讽；讽刺，冷嘲热讽/hint; insinuation. I can defend myself against direct accusations; innuendos and oblique attacks on my character are what trouble me.

Question 244

inopportune

Answer 244

ADJ. /不合时宜的/untimely; poorly chosen. A rock concert is an inopportune setting for a quiet conversation.

Question 245

inordinate

Answer 245

ADJ. /紊乱的；不受限制的/unrestrained; excessive. She had an inor?dinate fondness for candy, eating two or three boxes in a single day.

Question 246

inquisitor

Answer 246

N. /调查者；盘问者/questioner (especially harsh); investigator. Fearing being grilled ruthlessly by the secret police, Masha faced her inquisitors with trepidation.

Question 247

insalubrious

Answer 247

ADJ. /有害的/unwholesome; not healthful. The mos?quito-ridden swamp was an insalubrious place, a breeding ground for malarial contagion.

Question 248

insatiable

Answer 248

ADJ. /不容易伺候的；贪婪的/not easily satisfied; unquenchable; greedy. David's appetite for oysters was insatiable: he could easily eat four dozen at a single sitting.

Question 249

inscrutable

Answer 249

ADJ. /不可渗透的；不可理解的，谜/impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious. Experienced poker players try to keep their expressions inscrutable, hiding their reactions to the cards behind a so-called "poker face."

Question 250

insensible

Answer 250

ADJ. /迟钝的；硬心肠的/unconscious; unresponsive. Sherry and I are very different; at times when I would be covered with embarrassment, she seems insensible to shame.

Question 251

insidious

Answer 251

ADJ. /阴险的，奸诈的，狡猾的；鬼鬼祟祟的/treacherous; stealthy; sly. The fifth column is insidious because it works secretly within our territory for our defeat.

Question 252

insightful

Answer 252

ADJ. /有洞察力的/discerning; perceptive. Sol thought he was very insightful about human behavior, but he was actually clueless as to why people acted the way they did.

Question 253

insinuate

Answer 253

V. /暗示，含沙射影；慢慢的夺取，巧妙的迂回（进入）/hint; imply; creep in. When you said I looked robust, did you mean to insinuate that I'm getting fat?

Question 254

insipid

Answer 254

ADJ. /索然无味的；单调的/lacking in flavor; dull. Flat prose and flat gin?ger ale are equally insipid: both lack sparkle.

Question 255

insolence

Answer 255

N. /傲慢/impudent disrespect; haughtiness. How dare you treat me so rudely! The manager will hear of your inso?lence. insolent,ADJ.

Question 256

insolvent

Answer 256

ADJ. /破产/bankrupt; unable to repay one's debts. Although young Lord Widgeon was insolvent, he had no fear of being thrown into debtors' prison, for he was sure that if his creditors pressed him for payment his wealthy parents would repay what he owed. insolvency, N.

Question 257

insomnia

Answer 257

N. /失眠/wakefulness; inability to sleep. He refused to join us in a midnight cup of coffee because he claimed it gave him insomnia.

Question 258

instigate

Answer 258

V. /驱使；激励，鼓动/urge; start; provoke. Rumors of police corrup?tion led the mayor to instigate an investigation into the department's activities.

Question 259

insubordination

Answer 259

N. /反抗，不屈/disobedience; rebelliousness. At the slightest hint of insubordination from the sailors of the Bounty, Captain Bligh had them flogged; finally, they mutinied.

Question 260

insubstantial

Answer 260

ADJ. /无实体的，虚无的；脆弱的，不坚固的/lacking substance; insignificant; frail. His hopes for a career in acting proved insubstantial; no one would cast him, even in an insubstantial role.

Question 261

insularity

Answer 261

N. /与外界隔绝；僵化；思想狭窄/narrow-mindedness; isolation. The insularity of the islanders manifested itself in their suspicion of anything foreign. insular,ADJ.

Question 262

insulated

Answer 262

ADJ. /分离；隔离/set apart; isolated. A well-to-do bachelor, James spent his money freely, insulated from the cares of his friends, who had families to support.

Question 263

insuperable

Answer 263

ADJ. /不可战胜的，不能克服的/insurmountable; unbeatable. Though the odds against their survival seemed insuperable, the Apollo 13 astronauts reached earth safely.

Question 264

insurgent

Answer 264

ADJ. /造反的，起义的/rebellious. Because the insurgent forces had occupied the capital and had gained control of the rail?way lines, several of the war correspondents covering the uprising predicted a rebel victory.

Question 265

insurmountable

Answer 265

ADJ. /不能克服的，不能超越的/overwhelming; unbeatable; insupera?ble. Faced by almost insurmountable obstacles, the mem?bers of the underground maintained their courage and will to resist.

Question 266

insurrection

Answer 266

N. /谋反的，造反的/rebellion; uprising. In retrospect, given how badly the British treated the American colonists, the even?tual insurrection seems inevitable.

Question 267

intangible

Answer 267

ADJ. /难以明了的，无形的；暧昧的，模糊的/not able to be perceived by touch; vague. Though the financial benefits of his Oxford post were mea?ger, Lewis was drawn to it by its intangible rewards: pres-tige, intellectual freedom, the fellowship of his peers.

Question 268

integral

Answer 268

ADJ. /一体的，完整的/complete; necessary for completeness. Phys?ical education is an integral part of our curriculum; a sound mind and a sound body are complementary.

Question 269

integrate

Answer 269

V. /整合，合并/make whole; combine; make into one unit. She tried to integrate all their activities into one program.

Question 270

integrity

Answer 270

N. /完整性/uprightness; wholeness. Lincoln, whose per?sonal integrity has inspired millions, fought a civil war to maintain the integrity of the Republic, that these United States might remain undivided for all time.

Question 271

intellect

Answer 271

N. /智力/higher mental powers. He thought college would develop his intellect.

Question 272

intelligentsia

Answer 272

N. /知识分子；知识界/the intelligent and educated classes [often used derogatorily]. She preferred discussions about sports and politics to the literary conversations of the intelligentsia.

Question 273

intemperate

Answer 273

ADJ. /过度的；极端的；放纵的/immoderate; excessive; extreme. In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.

Question 274

inter

Answer 274

V. /埋/bury. They are going to inter the body tomorrow at Broadlawn Cemetery.

Question 275

interim

Answer 275

N. /临时的；间歇的/meantime. The company will not consider our proposal until next week; in the interim, let us proceed as we have in the past.

Question 276

interloper

Answer 276

N. /闯入者；干涉者/intruder; unwanted meddler. The merchant thought of his competitors as interlopers who were stealing away his trade.

Question 277

interment

Answer 277

N. /埋葬/burial. Interment will take place in the church cemetery at 2 P.M. Wednesday.

Question 278

interminable

Answer 278

ADJ. /无尽的/endless. Although his speech lasted for only twenty minutes, it seemed interminable to his bored audience.

Question 279

intermittent

Answer 279

ADJ. /间歇的；断断续续的/periodic; on and off. The outdoor wed?ding reception had to be moved indoors to avoid the inter?mittent showers that fell on and off all afternoon.

Question 280

interrogate

Answer 280

V. /审问；讯问/question closely; cross-examine. Knowing that the Nazis would interrogate him about his background, the secret agent invented a cover story that would help him meet their questions.

Question 281

intervene

Answer 281

V. /干预；干涉/come between. When two close friends get into a fight, be careful if you try to intervene; they may join forces to gang up on you.

Question 282

intimacy

Answer 282

N. /亲密；隐私/closeness, often affectionate; privacy; familiar?ity. In a moment of rare intimacy, the mayor allowed the reporters a glimpse of his personal feelings about his fam?ily. intimate,ADJ.

Question 283

intimate

Answer 283

V. /私下的，秘密的，亲密的；宣告/hint; suggest. Was Dick intimating that Jane had bad breath when he asked if she'd like a breath mint?

Question 284

intimidate

Answer 284

V. /使害怕/frighten. I'll learn karate and then those big bullies won't be able to intimidate me any more.

Question 285

intractable

Answer 285

ADJ. /难以处理的/unruly; stubborn; unyielding. Charlie Brown's friend Pigpen was intractable: he absolutely refused to take a bath.

Question 286

intransigence

Answer 286

N. /不妥协；不让步/refusal of any compromise; stubborn?ness. The negotiating team had not expected such intransi?gence from the striking workers, who rejected any hint of a compromise. intransigent,ADJ.

Question 287

intrepid

Answer 287

ADJ. /无畏的/fearless. For her intrepid conduct nursing the wounded during the war, Florence Nightingale was honored by Queen Victoria.

Question 288

intricate

Answer 288

ADJ. /复杂的；错综的/complex; knotty; tangled. Philip spent many hours designing mazes so intricate that none of his class?mates could solve them. intricacy, N.

Question 289

intrinsic

Answer 289

ADJ. /内在的；固有的/essential; inherent; built-in. Although my grandmother's china has little intrinsic value, I shall always cherish it for the memories it evokes.

Question 290

introspective

Answer 290

ADJ. /内省的；反省的/looking within oneself. Though young Francis of Assisi led a wild and worldly life, even then he had introspective moments during which he examined his soul. introvert N. one who is introspective; inclined to think more about oneself. In his poetry, he reveals that he is an intro?vert by his intense interest in his own problems. alsoV.

Question 291

intrude

Answer 291

V. /强挤入，侵入；强加于人/trespass; enter as an uninvited person. She hes?itated to intrude on their conversation.

Question 292

intuition

Answer 292

N. /直觉/immediate insight; power of knowing without reasoning. Even though Tony denied that anything was wrong, Tina trusted her intuition that something was bother?ing him. intuitive,ADJ.

Question 293

inundate

Answer 293

V. /淹没；吞并/overwhelm; flood; submerge. This semester I am inundated with work: You should see the piles of paper?work flooding my desk. Until the great dam was built, the waters of the Nile used to inundate the river valley like clockwork every year.

Question 294

inured

Answer 294

ADJ. /习惯了的，适应了的/accustomed; hardened. She became inured to the Alaskan cold.

Question 295

invalidate

Answer 295

V. /摧毁；使无效；弱化/weaken; destroy. The relatives who received little or nothing sought to invalidate the will by claiming that the deceased had not been in his right mind when he had signed the document.

Question 296

invasive

Answer 296

ADJ. /入侵的/tending to spread aggressively; intrusive. Giving up our war with the invasive blackberry vines that had taken over the back yard, we covered the lawn with concrete. invade,V.

Question 297

invective

Answer 297

N. /谩骂；非难；恶言相加/abuse. He had expected criticism but not the invective that greeted his proposal. inveigh,V.

Question 298

inverse

Answer 298

ADJ. /倒转的/opposite. There is an inverse ratio between the strength of light and its distance.

Question 299

invert

Answer 299

V. /倒转，翻转/turn upside down or inside out. When he inverted his body in a handstand, he felt the blood rush to his head. inveterate ADJ. deep-rooted; habitual. An inveterate smoker, Bob cannot seem to break the habit, no matter how hard he tries.

Question 300

invidious

Answer 300

ADJ. /易招嫉妒的；不公平的/designed to create ill will or envy. We disre?garded her invidious remarks because we realized how jealous she was.

Question 301

invigorate

Answer 301

V. /激发；鼓舞/energize; stimulate. A quick dip in the pool invigorated Meg, and with renewed energy she got back to work.

Question 302

invincible

Answer 302

ADJ. /无敌的/unconquerable. Superman is invincible.

Question 303

inviolable

Answer 303

ADJ. /无敌的；神圣不可亵渎的/secure from corruption, attack, or violation; unassailable. Batman considered his oath to keep the peo?ple of Gotham City inviolable: nothing on earth could make him break this promise.

Question 304

invocation

Answer 304

N. /祈祷/prayer for help; calling upon as a reference or support. The service of Morning Prayer opens with an invocation during which we ask God to hear our prayers.

Question 305

invoke

Answer 305

V. /恳请，借助于，找来，调用/call upon; ask for. She invoked her advisor's aid in filling out her financial aid forms.

Question 306

invulnerable

Answer 306

ADJ. /无懈可击的/incapable of injury. Achilles was invul?nerable except in his heel.

Question 307

iota

Answer 307

N. /极少量的/very small quantity. She hadn't an iota of common sense.

Question 308

irascible

Answer 308

ADJ. /易怒的；暴躁的/irritable; easily angered. Miss Minchin's iras?cible temper intimidated the younger schoolgirls, who feared she'd burst into a rage at any moment.

Question 309

irate

Answer 309

ADJ. /愤怒的；生气的/angry. When John's mother found out he had overdrawn his checking account for the third month in a row, she was so irate she could scarcely speak to him.

Question 310

ire

Answer 310

N. /怒气/anger. The waiter tried unsuccessfully to placate the ire of the diner who had found a cockroach in her soup.

Question 311

iridescent

Answer 311

ADJ. /虹彩的/exhibiting rainbowlike colors. She admired the iridescent hues of the oil that floated on the surface of the water.

Question 312

irksome

Answer 312

ADJ. /令人厌恶的；冗长乏味的/annoying; tedious. He found working on the assembly line irksome because of the monotony of the operation he had to perform. irk,V.

Question 313

ironic

Answer 313

ADJ. /讽刺性的/resulting in an unexpected and contrary out?come. It is ironic that his success came when he least wanted it.

Question 314

irony

Answer 314

N. /反话；讽刺/hidden sarcasm or satire; use of words that seem to mean the opposite of what they actually mean. Gradually his listeners began to realize that the excessive praise he was lavishing on his opponent was actually irony, he was in fact ridiculing the poor fool.

Question 315

irrational

Answer 315

ADJ. /无理的，缺乏逻辑的；不理智的/illogical; lacking reason; insane. Many peo?ple have such an irrational fear of snakes that they panic at the sight of a harmless garter snake.

Question 316

irreconcilable

Answer 316

ADJ. /不相容的；矛盾的/incompatible; not able to be resolved. Because the separated couple were irreconcilable, the marriage counselor recommended a divorce.

Question 317

irrefutable

Answer 317

ADJ. /不可否认的；不能驳倒的/indisputable; incontrovertible; undeniable. No matter how hard I tried to find a good comeback for her argument, I couldn't think of one: her logic was irrefutable.

Question 318

irrelevant

Answer 318

ADJ. /不相关的，不照号的/not applicable; unrelated. No matter how irrelevant the patient's mumblings may seem, they give us some indications of what he has on his mind.

Question 319

irremediable

Answer 319

ADJ. /不能挽回的；不能治愈的/incurable; uncorrectable. The error she made was irremediable; she could see no way to repair it.

Question 320

irreparable

Answer 320

ADJ. /不能弥补的，不能修复的；无可挽救的/not able to be corrected or repaired. Your apology cannot atone for the irreparable damage you have done to her reputation.

Question 321

irrepressible

Answer 321

ADJ. /压不住的，抑制不住的/unable to be restrained or held back. My friend Kitty's curiosity was irrepressible: she poked her nose into everybody's business and just laughed when I warned her that curiosity killed the cat.

Question 322

irreproachable

Answer 322

ADJ. /无可指责的；没有缺点的/blameless; impeccable. Homer's con?duct at the office party was irreproachable; even Marge didn't have anything bad to say about how he behaved.

Question 323

irresolute

Answer 323

ADJ. /犹豫不决的/uncertain how to act; weak. Once you have made your decision, don't waver; a leader should never appear irresolute.

Question 324

irretrievable

Answer 324

ADJ. /不能复原的；不能挽回的/impossible to recover or regain; irrepara?ble. The left fielder tried to retrieve the ball, but it flew over the fence, bounced off a wall, and fell into the sewer: it was irretrievable.

Question 325

irreverence

Answer 325

N. /不尊敬的/lack of proper respect. Some audience members were amused by the irreverence of the come?dian's jokes about the Pope; others felt offended by his lack of respect for their faith. irreverent,ADJ.

Question 326

irrevocable

Answer 326

ADJ. /不能取消的；不能变更的/unalterable; irreversible. As Sue dropped the "Dear John" letter into the mailbox, she suddenly had second thoughts and wanted to take it back, but she could not: her action was irrevocable.

Question 327

itinerant

Answer 327

ADJ. /巡回的/wandering; traveling. He was an itinerant peddler and traveled through Pennsylvania and Virginia selling his wares. also N.

Question 328

itinerary

Answer 328

N. /旅行计划；路线/plan of a trip. Disliking sudden changes in plans when she traveled abroad, Ethel refused to make any alterations in her itinerary.

Question 329

jabber

Answer 329

V. /快速的说，含混不清的说/chatter rapidly or unintelligibly. Why does the fel?low insist on jabbering away in French when I can't under?stand a word he says?

Question 330

jaded

Answer 330

ADJ. /疲倦的/fatigued; surfeited. He looked for exotic foods to stimulate his jaded appetite.

Question 331

jargon

Answer 331

N. /黑话，行话，胡话/language used by a special group; technical ter?minology; gibberish. The computer salesmen at the store used a jargon of their own that we simply couldn't follow; we had no idea what they were jabbering about.

Question 332

jaundiced

Answer 332

ADJ. /患黄疸病的；有偏见的/prejudiced (envious, hostile or resentful); yellowed. Because Sue disliked Carolyn, she looked at Car?olyn's paintings with a jaundiced eye, calling them formless smears. Newborn infants afflicted with jaundice look slightly yellow: they have jaundiced skin.

Question 333

jaunt

Answer 333

N. /短途旅行/trip; short journey. He took a quick jaunt to Atlantic City.

Question 334

jaunty

Answer 334

ADJ. /无忧无虑的，快乐的，轻松的/lighthearted; animated; easy and carefree. In An American in Paris, Gene Kelly sang and danced his way through "Singing in the Rain" in a properly jaunty style.

Question 335

jeopardize

Answer 335

V. /置于危险之中/endanger; imperil; put at risk. You can't give me a D in chemistry: you'll jeopardize my chances of get?ting into M.I.T. jeopardy, N.

Question 336

jettison

Answer 336

V. /投弃货物/throw overboard. In order to enable the ship to ride safely through the storm, the captain had to jettison much of his cargo.

Question 337

jingoist

Answer 337

N. /狂热好战分子；侵略主义者/extremely aggressive and militant patriot; warlike chauvinist. Always bellowing "America first!," the congressman was such a jingoist you could almost hear the sabers rattling as he marched down the halls. jingoism, N.

Question 338

jocose

Answer 338

ADJ. /诙谐的/given to joking. The salesman was so jocose that many of his customers suggested that he become a .,stand-up" comic.

Question 339

jocular

Answer 339

ADJ. /诙谐的/said or done in jest. Although Bill knew the boss hated jokes, he couldn't resist making one jocular remark.

Question 340

jollity

Answer 340

N. /高兴的；欢乐的/gaiety; cheerfulness. The festive Christmas dinner was a merry one, and old and young alike joined in the gen?eral jollity.

Question 341

jostle

Answer 341

V. /推，挤；撞/shove; bump. In the subway he was jostled by the crowds.

Question 342

jovial

Answer 342

ADJ. /天性善良的；好的；高兴的，愉快的/good-natured; merry. A frown seemed out of place on his invariably jovial face.

Question 343

jubilation

Answer 343

N. /庆祝/rejoicing. There was great jubilation when the armistice was announced. jubilant,ADJ.

Question 344

judicious

Answer 344

ADJ. /公平的/sound in judgment; wise. At a key moment in his life, he made a judicious investment that was the foundation of his later wealth.

Question 345

juncture

Answer 345

N. /危机，转折点；关键点/crisis; joining point. At this critical juncture, let us think carefully before determining the course we shall follow.

Question 346

junta

Answer 346

N. /小集团；政治团伙/group of men joined in political intrigue; cabal. As soon as he learned of its existence, the dictator ordered the execution of all of the members of the junta.

Question 347

jurisprudence

Answer 347

N. /法学/science of law. He was more a student of jurisprudence than a practitioner of the law.

Question 348

justification

Answer 348

N. /有理，正当；辩护；释罪/good or just reason; defense; excuse. The jury found him guilty of the more serious charge because they could see no possible justification for his actions,

Question 349

kaleidoscope

Answer 349

N. /万花筒/tube in which patterns made by the reflection in mirrors of colored pieces of glass, etc., pro?duce interesting symmetrical effects. People found a new source of entertainment while peering through the kaleido?scope; they found the ever-changing patterns fascinating.

Question 350

kernel

Answer 350

N. /核心的/central or vital part; whole seed (as of corn). "Watson, buried within this tissue of lies there is a kernel of truth; when I find it, the mystery will be solved."

Question 351

killjoy

Answer 351

N. /扫兴的人；煞风景/grouch; spoilsport. At breakfast we had all been enjoying our bacon and eggs until that killjoy John started talking about how bad animal fats were for our health.

Question 352

kindle

Answer 352

V. /点燃，照亮，激起/start a fire; inspire. One of the first things Ben learned in the Boy Scouts was how to kindle a fire by rub?bing two dry sticks together. Her teacher's praise for her poetry kindled a spark of hope inside Maya.

Question 353

kindred

Answer 353

ADJ. /同族的，同类的；血缘的/related; belonging to the same family. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were two kindred spirits. also N.

Question 354

kinetic

Answer 354

ADJ. /运动的；运动学的/producing motion. Designers of the electric automobile find that their greatest obstacle lies in the devel?opment of light and efficient storage batteries, the source of the kinetic energy needed to propel the vehicle.

Question 355

kleptomaniac

Answer 355

N. /偷窃狂；盗窃癖/person who has a compulsive desire to steal. They discovered that the wealthy customer was a klep?tomaniac when they caught her stealing some cheap trinkets.

Question 356

knave

Answer 356

N. /流氓；无赖；恶棍/untrustworthy person; rogue; scoundrel. Any politician nicknamed Tricky Dick clearly has the reputation of a knave. knavery, N.

Question 357

knit

Answer 357

V. /编织；结合/contract into wrinkles; grow together. Whenever David worries, his brow knits in a frown. When he broke his leg, he sat around the house all day waiting for the bones to knit.

Question 358

knoll

Answer 358

N. /小山包/little round hill. Robert Louis Stevenson's grave is on a knoll in Samoa; to reach the grave site, you must climb uphill and walk a short distance along a marked path.

Question 359

knotty

Answer 359

ADJ. /复杂的，错综的；精细的/intricate; difficult; tangled. What to Watson had been a knotty problem, to Sherlock Holmes was simplicity itself.

Question 360

kudos

Answer 360

N. /名望，声誉/honor; glory; praise. The singer complacently received kudos from his entourage on his performance.

Question 361

laborious

Answer 361

ADJ. /艰苦的，勤劳的/demanding much work or care; tedious. In putting together his dictionary of the English language, Doctor Johnson undertook a laborious task.

Question 362

labyrinth

Answer 362

N. /迷宫/maze. Hiding from Indian Joe, Tom and Becky soon lost themselves in the labyrinth of secret underground caves. labyrinthine,ADJ.

Question 363

laceration

Answer 363

N. /破口/torn, ragged wound. The stock car driver needed stitches to close up the lacerations he received in the car crash.

Question 364

lachrymose

Answer 364

ADJ. /爱哭的/producing tears. His voice has a lachry?mose quality more appropriate to a funeral than a class reunion.

Question 365

lackadaisical

Answer 365

ADJ. /懒洋洋的，没上进心的/lacking purpose or zest; halfhearted; languid. Because Gatsby had his mind more on his love life than on his finances, he did a very lackadaisical job of man?aging his money.

Question 366

lackluster

Answer 366

ADJ. /暗淡的，无光的；单调的/dull. We were disappointed by the lacklus?ter performance.

Question 367

laconic

Answer 367

ADJ. /简洁的/brief and to the point. Many of the characters portrayed by Clint Eastwood are laconic types: strong men of few words.

Question 368

laggard

Answer 368

ADJ. /缓慢的，迟缓的/slow; sluggish. The sailor had been taught not to be laggard in carrying out orders. lag, N.,V.

Question 369

lament

Answer 369

V. /悲伤，恸哭/grieve; express sorrow. Even advocates of the war lamented the loss of so many lives in combat. lamenta?tion, N.

Question 370

lampoon

Answer 370

V. /讽刺的/ridicule. This article lampoons the pretensions of some movie moguls. also N.

Question 371

languid

Answer 371

ADJ. /疲倦的，无精打采的/weary; sluggish; listless. Her siege of illness left her languid and pallid.

Question 372

languish

Answer 372

V. /无力的，憔悴的/lose animation; lose strength. Left at Miss Minchin's school for girls while her father went off to war, Sarah Crewe refused to languish; instead, she hid her grief and actively befriended her less fortunate classmates.

Question 373

languor

Answer 373

N. /衰弱，萧条/lassitude; depression. His friends tried to over?come the languor into which he had fallen by taking him to parties and to the theater.

Question 374

lap

Answer 374

V. /舔食，泼溅/take in food or drink with one's tongue; splash gen?tly. The kitten neatly lapped up her milk. The waves softly lapped against the pier.

Question 375

larceny

Answer 375

N. /盗窃/theft. Because of the prisoner's record, the dis?trict attorney refused to reduce the charge from grand lar?ceny to petty larceny.

Question 376

larder

Answer 376

N. /食品室；储藏室/pantry; place where food is kept. The first thing Bill did on returning home from school was to check what snacks his mother had in the larder.

Question 377

largess

Answer 377

N. /赠送；赠礼/generous gift. Lady Bountiful distributed largess to the poor.

Question 378

lassitude

Answer 378

N. /疲乏/languor; weariness. After a massage and a long soak in the hot tub, I gave in to my growing lassitude and lay down for a nap.

Question 379

latent

Answer 379

ADJ. /潜在的/potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden. Polaroid pictures are popular at parties, because you can see the latent photographic image gradually appear before your eyes.

Question 380

lateral

Answer 380

ADJ. /侧面的，侧向的/coming from the side. In order to get good plant growth, the gardener must pinch off all lateral shoots.

Question 381

latitude

Answer 381

N. /范围/freedom from narrow limitations. I think you have permitted your son too much latitude in this matter.

Question 382

laud

Answer 382

V. /赞美/praise. The NFL lauded Boomer Esiason's efforts to raise money to combat cystic fibrosis. laudable, lauda?tory,ADJ.

Question 383

lavish

Answer 383

ADJ. /浪费的，大方的/liberal; wasteful. The actor's lavish gifts pleased her. alsoV.

Question 384

Iax

Answer 384

ADJ. /粗心/careless. We dislike restaurants where the service is lax and inattentive.

Question 385

leaven

Answer 385

V. /发酵/cause to rise or grow lighter; enliven. As bread dough is leavened, it puffs up, expanding in volume.

Question 386

lechery

Answer 386

N. /好色；动机不纯/lustfulness; impurity in thought and deed. In his youth he led a life of lechery and debauchery; he did not mend his ways until middle age. lecherous,ADJ.

Question 387

leery

Answer 387

ADJ. /机敏的；狡猾的/suspicious; cautious. Don't eat the sushi at this restaurant; I'm a bit leery about how fresh the raw fish is.

Question 388

legacy

Answer 388

N. /遗赠/a gift made by a will. Part of my legacy from my parents is an album of family photographs.

Question 389

legend

Answer 389

N. /图例/explanatory list of symbols on a map. The leg?end at the bottom of the map made it clear which symbols stood for rest areas along the highway and which stood for public camp sites. (secondary meaning)

Question 390

legerdemain

Answer 390

N. /戏法；花招/sleight of hand. The magician demon?strated his renowned legerdemain.

Question 391

leniency

Answer 391

N. /温和；宽大，仁慈/mildness; permissiveness. Considering the gravity of the offense, we were surprised by the leniency of the sentence.

Question 392

lethal

Answer 392

ADJ. /致命的/deadly. It is unwise to leave lethal weapons where children may find them.

Question 393

lethargic

Answer 393

ADJ. /昏睡的；瞌睡的/drowsy; dull. The stuffy room made her lethargic: she felt as if she was about to nod off.

Question 394

levitate

Answer 394

V. /升空漂浮（魔法）/float in the air (especially by magical means). As the magician passed his hands over the recumbent body of his assistant, she appeared to rise and levitate about three feet above the table.

Question 395

levity

Answer 395

N. /轻佻，轻浮/lack of seriousness; lightness. Stop giggling and wriggling around in the pew: such levity is improper in church.

Question 396

levy

Answer 396

V. /征收/impose (a fine); collect (a payment). Crying "No taxation without representation," the colonists demonstrated against England's power to levy taxes.

Question 397

lewd

Answer 397

ADJ. /淫荡的，下流的，好色的；猥亵的/lustful. They found his lewd stories objectionable.

Question 398

lexicographer

Answer 398

N. /字典编纂者/compiler of a dictionary. The new dictio?nary is the work of many lexicographers who spent years compiling and editing the work.

Question 399

lexicon

Answer 399

N. /字典/dictionary. I cannot find this word in any lexicon in the library.

Question 400

liability

Answer 400

N. /责任；缺点；债/drawback; debts. Her lack of an extensive vocab?ulary was a liability that she was eventually able to overcome.

Question 401

liaison

Answer 401

N. /联络；连音/contact keeping parts of an organization in com?munication; go-between; secret love affair. As the liaison between the American and British forces during World War II, the colonel had to ease tensions between the leaders of the two armies. Romeo's romantic liaison with Juliet ended in tragedy.

Question 402

libel

Answer 402

N. /诽谤；中伤/defamatory statement; act of writing something that smears a person's character. If Batman wrote that the Joker was a dirty, 'rotten, mass-murdering criminal, could the Joker sue Batman for libel?

Question 403

liberator

Answer 403

N. /解放者/one who sets free. Simon Bolivar, who led the South American colonies in their rebellion against Spanish rule, is known as the great liberator. liberate,V.

Question 404

libretto

Answer 404

N. /歌词，剧本（舞剧，歌剧的）/text of an opera. The composer of an opera's music is remembered more frequently than the author of its libretto.

Question 405

licentious

Answer 405

ADJ. /不道德的；下流的；放纵的/amoral; lewd and lascivious; unrestrained. Unscrupulously seducing the daughter of his host, Don Juan felt no qualms about the immorality of his licentious behavior.

Question 406

lilliputian

Answer 406

ADJ. /极小的/extremely small. Tiny and delicate, the model was built on a lilliputian scale. also N.

Question 407

limber

Answer 407

ADJ. /柔韧的；可塑的/flexible. Hours of ballet classes kept him limber.

Question 408

limerick

Answer 408

N. /五行打油诗/humorous short verse. The limerick form is the best; its meter is pure anapest. A limerick's fun for most everyone, and the word may occur on your test.

Question 409

limpid

Answer 409

ADJ. /清澈/clear. A limpid stream ran through his property.

Question 410

linchpin

Answer 410

N. /关键/something that holds or links various parts together. The linchpin in the district attorney's case was a photograph showing the defendant shaking hands with the hired killer.

Question 411

lineage

Answer 411

N. /血统/descent; ancestry. He traced his lineage back to Mayflower days.

Question 412

linger

Answer 412

V. /逗留；闲逛；流连/loiter or dawdle; continue or persist. Hoping to see Juliet pass by, Romeo lingered outside the Capulet house for hours. Though Mother made stuffed cabbage on Monday, the smell lingered around the house for days.

Question 413

linguistic

Answer 413

ADJ. /语言的/pertaining to language. The modern tourist will encounter very little linguistic difficulty as English has become an almost universal language.

Question 414

liniment

Answer 414

N. /药膏；擦油/ointment; lotion; salve. The trainer carefully applied the liniment to the quarterback's bruise, gently rub?bing it into the skin.

Question 415

lionize

Answer 415

V. /奉为名人；游览名胜/treat as a celebrity. She enjoyed being lionized and adored by the public.

Question 416

liquidate

Answer 416

V. /清算/settle accounts; clearup. He was able to liqui?date all his debts in a short period of time.

Question 417

list

Answer 417

V. /倾斜/tilt; lean over. That flagpole should be absolutely vertical; instead, it lists to one side. (secondary meaning)

Question 418

listless

Answer 418

ADJ. /倦怠的，冷漠的/lacking in spirit or energy. We had expected him to be full of enthusiasm and were surprised by his list?less attitude.

Question 419

litany

Answer 419

N. /连续虔诚的祈祷/supplicatory prayer. On this solemn day, the con?gregation responded to the prayers of the priest during the litany with fervor and intensity.

Question 420

lithe

Answer 420

ADJ. /柔软的/flexible; supple. Her figure was lithe and willowy.

Question 421

litigation

Answer 421

N. /诉讼/lawsuit. Try to settle this amicably; I do not want to become involved in litigation. litigant, N.

Question 422

livid

Answer 422

ADJ. /铅灰色的；青一块紫一块的；暴怒的/lead-colored; black and blue; enraged. His face was so livid with rage that we were afraid that he might have an attack of apoplexy.

Question 423

loath

Answer 423

ADJ. /不情愿的；勉强/reluctant; disinclined. Romeo and Juliet were both loath for him to go.

Question 424

loathe

Answer 424

V. /厌恶；增武/detest. Booing and hissing, the audience showed how much they loathed the wicked villain.

Question 425

lofty

Answer 425

ADJ. /高高在上的/very high. Though Barbara Jordan's fellow stu?dents used to tease her about her lofty ambitions, she rose to hold one of the highest positions in the land.

Question 426

log

Answer 426

N. /日志；圆木/record of a voyage or flight; record of day to day activities. "Flogged two seamen today for insubordination" wrote Captain Bligh in the Bounty's log. To see how much work I've accomplished recently, just take a look at the number of new files listed on my computer log.

Question 427

loiter

Answer 427

V. /闲逛；徘徊/hang around; linger. The policeman told him not to loiter in the alley.

Question 428

loll

Answer 428

V. /懒洋洋的坐或靠/lounge about. They lolled around in their chairs watching television.

Question 429

longevity

Answer 429

N. /长命不老/long life. When he reached ninety, the old man was proud of his longevity.

Question 430

loom

Answer 430

V. /织布机/appear or take shape (usually in an enlarged or distorted form). The shadow of the gallows loomed threat?eningly above the small boy.

Question 431

lope

Answer 431

V. /慢跑/gallop slowly. As the horses loped along, we had an opportunity to admire the ever-changing scenery. loquacious ADJ. talkative. Though our daughter barely says a word to us these days, put a phone in her hand and see how loquacious she can be: our phone bills are out of sight! loquacity, N.

Question 432

lout

Answer 432

N. /笨人，呆子/clumsy person. That awkward lout dropped my priceless vase!

Question 433

low

Answer 433

V. /牛叫，哞/moo. From the hilltop, they could see the herd like ants in the distance; they could barely hear the cattle low.

Question 434

lucid

Answer 434

ADJ. /明晰的；聪明的/easily understood; clear; intelligible. Ellen makes an excellent teacher: her explanations of technical points are lucid enough for a child to grasp.

Question 435

lucrative

Answer 435

ADJ. /有利润的/profitable. He turned his hobby into a lucra?tive profession.

Question 436

ludicrous

Answer 436

ADJ. /可笑的，滑稽的；不重要的/laughable; trifling. Let us be serious; this is not a ludicrous issue.

Question 437

lugubrious

Answer 437

ADJ. /悲哀的/mournful. The lugubrious howling of the dogs added to our sadness.

Question 438

lull

Answer 438

N. /平静，安静，暂停，短暂的平息/moment of calm. Not wanting to get wet, they waited under the awning for a lull in the rain.

Question 439

lull

Answer 439

V. /安抚，平静；换取信任，使其失去警惕/soothe; cause one to relax one's guard; subside. The mother's gentle song lulled the child to sleep. Malcolm tried to come up with a plausible story to lull his mother's suspicions, but she didn't believe a word he said.

Question 440

lumber

Answer 440

V. /笨重的往前走/move heavily or clumsily. Still somewhat torpid after its long hibernation, the bear lumbered through the woods.

Question 441

luminary

Answer 441

N. /名气，尊严/celebrity; dignitary. A leading light of the American stage, Ethel Barrymore was a theatrical luminary whose name lives on.

Question 442

luminous

Answer 442

ADJ. /发光的，闪耀的/shining; issuing light. The sun is a luminous body.

Question 443

lummox

Answer 443

N. /大而笨重的（通常指人）/big, clumsy, often stupid person. Because he was highly overweight and looked ungainly, John Candy often was cast as a slow-witted lummox.

Question 444

lunar

Answer 444

ADJ. /月亮的/pertaining to the moon. Lunar craters can plainly seen with the aid of a small telescope.

Question 445

lunge

Answer 445

V. /突进，刺，冲/quick forward dive or reach; thrust. The wide receiver lunged forward to grab the football. With his sword, Dartagnan lunged at his adversary.

Question 446

lurid

Answer 446

ADJ. /耸人听闻的；可怕的；惨白的；血红的/wild; sensational; graphic; gruesome. Do the lurid cover stories in the Enquirer actually attract people to buy that trashy tabloid?

Question 447

lurk

Answer 447

V. /埋伏/stealthily lie in waiting; slink; exist unperceived. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows."

Question 448

luscious

Answer 448

ADJ. /美味的，甜美的/pleasing to taste or smell. The ripe peach was luscious.

Question 449

luster

Answer 449

N. /光泽；光彩/shine; gloss. The soft luster of the silk in the dim light was pleasing.

Question 450

lustrous

Answer 450

ADJ. /闪耀的/shining. Her large and lustrous eyes lent a touch of beauty to an otherwise plain face.

Question 451

luxuriant

Answer 451

ADJ. /丰富的，富足的；丰富多彩；肥沃的/abundant; rich and splendid; fertile. Lady Godiva was completely covered by her luxuriant hair.

Question 452

machinations

Answer 452

N. /阴谋，诡计/evil schemes or plots. Fortunately, Bat?man saw through the wily machinations of the Riddler and saved Gotham City from destruction by the forces of evil.

Question 453

madrigal

Answer 453

N. /小曲；牧歌/pastoral song. His program of folk songs included several madrigals which he sang to the accompa?niment of a lute.

Question 454

maelstrom

Answer 454

N. /漩涡/whirlpool. The canoe was tossed about in the maelstrom.

Question 455

magnanimous

Answer 455

ADJ. /宽宏大量的/generous; great-hearted. Philan?thropists by definition are magnanimous; misers, by defini?tion, are not. Cordelia was too magnanimous to resent her father's unkindness to her; instead, she generously forgave him. magnanimity, N.

Question 456

magnate

Answer 456

N. /富豪，要人；突出的人物，XX大王/person of prominence or influence. Growing up in Pittsburgh, Annie Dillard was surrounded by the man?sions of the great steel and coal magnates who set their mark on that city.

Question 457

magnitude

Answer 457

N. /巨大的，大数量级的/ greatness; extent. It is difficult to compre?hend the magnitude of his crime.

Question 458

maim

Answer 458

V. /伤害/mutilate; injure. The hospital could not take care of all who had been wounded or maimed in the railroad accident.

Question 459

maladroit

Answer 459

ADJ. /搞砸的；笨拙的/clumsy; bungling. How maladroit it was of me to mention seeing you out partying last night! From the look on his face, I take it that your boyfriend thought you were otherwise occupied.

Question 460

malady

Answer 460

N. /疾病/illness. A mysterious malady swept the coun?try, filling doctors' offices with feverish, purple-spotted patients.

Question 461

malaise

Answer 461

N. /不适，欠佳/uneasiness; vague feeling of ill health. Feeling slightly queasy before going onstage, Carol realized that this touch of malaise was merely stage fright.

Question 462

malapropism

Answer 462

N. /可笑的用词错误/comic misuse of a word. When Mrs. Mala?prop accuses Lydia of being "as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile," she confuses "allegory" and "alli?gator" in a typical malapropism.

Question 463

malcontent

Answer 463

N. /不满的；不满现状的/person dissatisfied with existing state of affairs. One of the few malcontents in Congress, he con?stantly voiced his objections to the presidential program. alsoADJ.

Question 464

malediction

Answer 464

N. /诅咒/curse. When the magic mirror revealed that Snow White was still alive, the wicked queen cried out in rage and uttered dreadful maledictions.

Question 465

malefactor

Answer 465

N. /犯罪分子/evildoer; criminal. Mighty Mouse will save the day, hunting down malefactors and rescuing innocent mice from peril.

Question 466

malevolent

Answer 466

ADJ. /坏心肠的/wishing evil. lago is a malevolent villain who takes pleasure in ruining Othello.

Question 467

malfeasance

Answer 467

N. /渎职；不法行为/wrongdoing. The authorities did not dis?cover the campaign manager's malfeasance until after he had spent most of the money he had embezzled.

Question 468

malicious

Answer 468

ADJ. /恶毒的/hateful; spiteful. Jealous of Cinderella's beauty, her malicious stepsisters expressed their spite by forcing her to do menial tasks. malice, N.

Question 469

malign

Answer 469

V. /毒辣的言语；诽谤/speak evil of; bad-mouth; defame. Putting her hands over her ears, Rose refused to listen to Betty malign her friend Susan.

Question 470

malignant

Answer 470

ADJ. /恶性的，伤害的；致命的/injurious; tending to cause death; aggres?sively malevolent. Though many tumors are benign, some are malignant, growing out of control and endangering the life of the patient.

Question 471

malingerer

Answer 471

N. /装病的人；假病号/one who feigns illness to escape duty. The captain ordered the sergeant to punish all malingerers and force them to work. malinger,V.

Question 472

malleable

Answer 472

ADJ. /有延展性的；可锻的/capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable. Gold is a malleable metal, easily shaped into bracelets and rings. Fagin hoped Oliver was a mal?leable lad, easily shaped into a thief.

Question 473

malodorous

Answer 473

ADJ. /恶臭的/foul-smelling. The compost heap was most malodorous in summer.

Question 474

mammal

Answer 474

N. /哺乳动物/a vertebrate animal whose female suckles its young. Many people regard the whale as a fish and do not realize that it is a mammal.

Question 475

mammoth

Answer 475

ADJ. /巨大的/gigantic; enormous. To try to memorize every word on this vocabulary list would be a mammoth undertak?ing; take on projects that are more manageable in size.

Question 476

mandate

Answer 476

N. /委任；命令/order; charge. In his inaugural address, the president stated that he had a mandate from the people to seek an end to social evils such as poverty. alsoV.

Question 477

mandatory

Answer 477

ADJ. /强制的，命令的；义不容辞的/obligatory. These instructions are manda?tory, any violation will be severely punished.

Question 478

maniacal

Answer 478

ADJ. /疯狂的；无理智的/raging mad; insane. Though Mr. Rochester had locked his mad wife in the attic, he could still hear her maniacal laughter echoing throughout the house.

Question 479

manifest

Answer 479

ADJ. /明白的，显然的；证明，表现/evident; visible; obvious. Digby's embar?rassment when he met Madonna was manifest: his ears turned bright pink, he kept scuffing one shoe in the dirt, and he couldn't look her in the eye.

Question 480

manifesto

Answer 480

N. /声明/declaration; statement of policy. The Com?munist Manifesto by Marx and Engels proclaimed the prin?ciples of modern communism.

Question 481

manipulate

Answer 481

v, /操作/operate with one's hands; control or play upon (people, forces, etc.) artfully. Jim Henson understood how to manipulate the Muppets. Madonna understands how to manipulate men (and publicity).

Question 482

mannered

Answer 482

ADJ. /做作的，矫饰的/affected; not natural. Attempting to copy the style of his wealthy neighbors, Gatsby adopted a man?nered, artificial way of speech.

Question 483

marital

Answer 483

ADJ. /婚姻的/pertaining to marriage. After the publication of his book on marital affairs, he was often consulted by mar?ried people on the verge of divorce.

Question 484

maritime

Answer 484

ADJ. /海事的，海运的，海上的/bordering on the sea; nautical. The Maritime Provinces depend on the sea for their wealth.

Question 485

marked

Answer 485

ADJ. /值得注意的；报仇的目标/noticeable or pronounced; targeted for vengeance. He walked with a marked limp, a souvenir of an old I.R.A. attack. As British ambassador, he knew he was a marked man, for he knew the Irish Republican Army wanted him dead.

Question 486

marquee

Answer 486

N. /建筑物入口处的雨棚，遮蔽物/canopy above an entrance, under which one can take shelter; rooflike shelter above a theater entrance. On stormy days, the hotel doorman keeps dry by standing directly beneath the marquee. The title of Arthur Kopit's play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad was too long to fit on the marquee.

Question 487

marred

Answer 487

ADJ. /受损的/damaged; disfigured. She had to refinish the marred surface of the table. mar,V.

Question 488

marshal

Answer 488

V. /排序；整理/put in order. At a debate tournament, extempo?raneous speakers have only a minute or two to marshal their thoughts before they address their audience.

Question 489

marsupial

Answer 489

N. /有袋哺乳动物（袋鼠、袋熊、袋狼）/one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch. The most common marsupial in North America is the opossum.

Question 490

martial

Answer 490

ADJ. /好战的；尚武的/warlike. The sound of martial music inspired the young cadet with dreams of military glory.

Question 491

martinet

Answer 491

N. /严格纪律的人/strict disciplinarian. No talking at meals! No mingling with the servants! Miss Minchin was a martinet who insisted that the schoolgirls in her charge observe each regulation to the letter.

Question 492

martyr

Answer 492

N./殉道者；殉教者；烈士/ one who voluntarily suffers death for his or her religion or cause; great sufferer. By burning her at the stake, the English made Joan of Arc a martyr for her faith. Mother played the martyr by staying home cleaning the house while the rest of the family went off to the beach.

Question 493

masochist

Answer 493

N. /受虐狂/person who enjoys his own pain. The masochist begs, "Hit me." The sadist smiles and says, "I won't."