SAT常用词汇总结181-241.

SAT常用词汇总结181-241

181. champion (28)to support; to fight for; to endorse; to advocate; to commend 182. mediocre (28)second-rate; average-to-poor quality (mediocrity) 183. domestic (27)relating to the home; relating to one’s country; fitting in at home; indigenous (domesticate, domesticity) 184. pedantic (27)overly academic about minor matters; being a stickler for academic correctness (pedant, pedantry) 185. wary (27)cautious; carul; prudent; circumspect;apprehensive; diffident 186. vulnerable (27)able to be hurt; weak (vulnerability, invulnerable) 187. opportunist (27)someone who takes advantage of opportunities, often exploiting them selfishly (opportunistic, opportune) 188. discriminating (27)selective; making a clear distinction between things; to treat differently; discerning; distinguishing (indiscriminate, indiscriminant, discrimination) 189. adept (27)skillful (inept) 190. anachronistic (26)out of date; extremely old-fashioned way of doing something; dated and no longer needed; obsolete; no longer contemporary (anachronism) 191. provincial (26)relating to a region or province; narrow-minded;parochial 192. obstinate (26)stubborn; intractable (obstinacy) 193. heresy (26)a statement, action, or beli that goes a dominant religion or system of belis; more generally, any beli that goes sharply against the accepted viewpoint on a subject; a radically unconventional idea or action (heretical, heretic) 194. articulate (26)able to express ideas clearly; coherent; lucid(inarticulate) 195. formal (26)standard; following rules; proper; ceremonial;conventional; relating to superficial conventions(formality, informal) 196. detached (26)unemotional; unbiased; objective almost to the point of being indifferent; neutral (detachment) 197. conformist (26)someone who follows rules or conventions(conform; conformity; nonconformist) 198. complement (26)to fit well with; to complete something(complementary) 199. intrepid (26)brave; fearless; undaunted (trepidation) 200. feasible (26)possible; workable; likely to happen (feasibility) 201. proponent (26)a supporter; a champion; one who endorses; an advocate 202. reprehensible (26)deserving great blame; wicked; evil 203. extol (26)to praise highly; to commend 204. compatible (26)able to exist with something else; well-matched;harmonious (incompatible) 205. radical (26)not moderate; extremely unconventional, and almost heretical 206. erratic (26)moving in an unpredictable way; unpredictable;inconsistent 207. inherent (26)inborn; essential; innate 208. resilient (26)quickly bouncing back; flexible under pressure;resolute (resilience) 209. tractable (26)obedient; easily controlled; amenable (intractable) 210. clandestine (25)secret; surreptitious 211. commend (25)to praise; to extol (commendable) 212. adversity (25)a difficult, harmful, or dangerous situation(adverse) 213. convoluted (25)complicated; twisted; incoherent 214. empathy (25)ability to see and feel things from another person’s point of view; sympathetic (empathetic) 215. inundate (25)to flood; to overwhelm with overabundance 216. genial (25)friendly; good-natured; kind; sympathetic;gregarious; amiable; amicable (congenial) 217. insolvent (25)unable to pay; out of money (solvent, solvency, soluble, insoluble) 218. impede (25)to block; to hinder; to delay; to inhibit(impediment) 219. equivocal (25)intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one’s meaning, often in response to a question (unequivocal, equivocate) 220. decisive (25)quick to decide; dinite or dinitive; determined;resolute 221. transcend (25)to move beyond and often to overcome; to surpass(transcendental) 222. prohibitive (25)tending to prevent or impede; precluding 223. dilatory (25)delaying; not prompt 224. divisive (25)tending to divide parties; creating or stirring up disagreement 225. tolerant (25)accepting of differences with others; able to dealwith; amicable (tolerance, tolerable, tolerate) 226. cerebral (25)intellectual; relating to the brain 227. cantankerous (24)bad-tempered; irritable 228. consensus (24)general agreement; concord (consensual) 229. notion (24)an idea or concept, usually unproven; a hypothesis 230. compound (24)to combine; to increase (compounded) 231. circumscribe (24)to draw a line around; to restrict; to dine(circumscription) 232. tentative (24)not final; dependent; unsure; not dinitive or decisive 233. enigmatic (24)puzzling; mysterious; obscure (enigma) 234. colleague (24)a coworker, especially in a particular business or profession; a collaborator (collegial) 235. regenerate (24)to grow back; to regain health (degenerate) 236. hackneyed (24)unoriginal; overused; banal; prosaic; mundane;vapid 237. preclude (24)to prevent; to make impossible; to prohibit 238. attribute (24)to claim something as a cause, a characteristic, or an aspect of something (attribution) 239. na?ve (24)unsophisticated; innocent; childlike; ingenuous(naiveté) 240. abundant (24)plentiful; not scarce (overabundant) 241. chronological (24)in order of time (chronology)