SAT词汇讲解:SAT形近词.

1.negligible可以忽略的negligent 疏忽的

（1）She was taxed with negligence/with having been negligent.

（2）The damage to my car is negligible.

2.snob （snobbish）势利（的）smug 自满的

Snob: one who blatantly imitates, fawningly admires, or vulgarly seeks association with those regarded as social superiors, 势利的小人。。。。中国太多了

(1) One academic who has studied and written extensively about Plato and television suggests that Plato, rather than being anti-arts, was merely an elitist. Plato wanted to ban poetry readings and live theater, the argument goes, because, being free and accessible and raucous and extremely popular, they were the mass entertainment of that era.

Question: The “academic” indicates that Plato was primarily characterized by his

(A) insight

(B) artistry

(C) cynicism

(D) irreverence

(E) snobbishness

（2）Political figures who appear to be stanch supporters of the interests of the general public may not always be the__ they purport to be, but rather__ who favor selected groups that provide significant campaign benactions.

A. demagogues, mavericks

B. conservatives, anarchists

C. populists, elitists

D. moderates, reactionaries

E. partisans, snobs

Smug：marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction相当的自以为是。。。

EG: It was interesting to be in the quite old town once more, and it was not disagreeable to be hare and there suddenly recognized and stared after. One or two of the tradespeople even darted out of their shops, and went a little way down the street bore me, that they might turn, as if they had forgotten something, and pass me face to face—on which occasions I don’t know whether they or I made the worse pretence; they of not doing it, or I of not seeing it. Still, my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb’s boy.

Question: The first paragraph of the passage implies that the narrator felt

A. apathetic and helpless at being a stranger in town

B. distanced and smug toward the townspeople

C. bored and unimportant in a provincial town

D. confused and disoriented on a busy street

E.nostalgic and proud on returning to his hometown

通过这个题目体会一下，什么叫“衣锦还乡”，其实是在讽刺。。

3. salvage 救捞 salvation 拯救

（1）After all of the passengers were safely aboard lifeboats, the crew of the King Cruiser made every attempt to__ what scuba diving equipment they could off of the__ dive boat bore it sank.

(A)qualify, obsolete

(B) salvage, floundering

(C) exacerbate, dunct

(D)revitalize, prosperous

(E) commandeer, lucrative

（2）Was not Europe in its groping era of discovery in the fifteenth century in fact in search of salvation, as its morbid sonnets said, or of that regeneration which new lands and new peoples and of course new riches would be presumed to provide?

难道充满发现与探索的15世纪的欧洲不是在寻求自救，就像那首垂死的十四行诗所说的那样？或者难道欧洲不是在寻求重生，在那个新大陆上人们会被假设去提供新的财富？

（这是SAT阅读考试里的一道长难句，仔细体会一下句子结构，你能不能理解呢？）

4. momentoussignificantparamount 都表示重要的

Momentous 重要的，重大的 paramount极为重要的

Momentary瞬间的 surmount 克服，越过

5. imminent 即将发生的，eminent 杰出的，prominent 杰出的，优秀的

(1) 语法题: When the ship was in eminent peril of being wrecked，all the crews of the ship

A B C

dived into the cold water, where died most of them. No error

D E

(2) Renowned buildings such as “Falling water” and the eminent Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City___ Frank Lloyd Wright as one of the most__ architect of the 20^th century.

(A)buoyed, irrelevant

(B) established, prominent

(C) surrendered, prolific

(D)decried, cynical

(E) categorized, mundane

6．Dread恐惧的，可怕的 dreary沉闷的

（1）Although the news he reported was__, the anchorman remained calm, keeping his fear from his expression.

(A)confusing

(B) unexpected

(C) anxious

(D)exciting

(E) dreadful

(2) It was so agreeable to her to see him again, and hear him to talk, to have her ear amused and her whole comprehension filled by his narratives, that she began particularly to feel how dreadfully she must have missed him, and how impossible it would have been for her to bear a lengthened absence.

再次印证《思念是种病》

7． Budget 预算 Burgeon 茁壮成长

In one instance illustrating Metternich’s consuming___, he employed several naval captains to purchase books abroad for him, eventually adding an entire Oriental library to his___ collection.

A. foresight, indifferent

B. altruism, eclectic

C. bibliomania, burgeoning

D. avarice, inadvertent

E. egocentricity, magnanimous

8．Covert 神秘的 overt 公开的，明显的

（1）Some argue that the existence of clones would undermine the uniqueness of each human being. “Can individuality , identity, and dignity be severed from genetic distinctiveness, and form beli in a person’s open future?” asks political thinker George Will.

Question: “open” most nearly means

(A) overt

(B) frank

(C) unrestricted

(D) unprotected

(E) public

(2) Coach Jones’ feelings about the team were ------; he didn’t need to explicitly state them.

A. covert

B. reasonable

C. fractious

D. tacit

9．Extant 现存的 extent 程度

（1）to some extent 在某种程度上来说 to an extreme extent 极端一点的说

（2）Because of the extent to which a college degree is accepted by employers as a proof of competence in a given field, college graduates are not only more likely to receive more job offers, they can also command higher salaries than applicants who lack college diplomas.

正因为大学学位被雇主看成是在某一领域内能力很高的证明，那些大学毕业生不仅比缺乏大学文凭的人拥有更多的求职机会，而且还可以要求更高的薪水。

（3）The study’s warning that monkey populations were declining in Guatemala and Mexico was__ by new evidence that nearby populations along the Belize River were__.

(A) corroborated, prospering

(B) confirmed, extant

(C) belied, dwindling

(D) diminished, debilitated

(E) tempered, thriving

这道题主考逻辑，这部分是填空老师的责任，请看一下B为什么不对？

10．Facet 小平面 Facetious轻浮的

11．Swindle 欺骗 dwindle 减少

（1）The dishonest employee----- his company, absconding with more than two thousand dollars’ worth of supplies.

(A) relieved

(B) reported

(C) swindled

(D) demoted

（abscond 潜逃）

（2）The number of black hawks has__ because the encroachments of humans on their territory have caused them to___ their customary breeding places.

(A) multiplied, endure

(B) extrapolated, alter

(C) increased, locate

(D) diminished, accept

(E) dwindled, shun

还有没有记住shun这个单词的意思？没记住的话赶快复习第一讲的内容！

12. sober 清醒的 somber 忧郁的

Here Coltrane played the soprano saxophone, an instrument seldom used by jazz musicians. Musically, the results were astounding. With the soprano&aposs piping sound, ideas that had sounded dark and brooding acquired a feeling of giddy fantasy.

Question：The author implies that which of the following would have been an fect of Coltrane&aposs having chosen to play the tenor rather than the soprano saxophone on My Favorite Things?

(A) The tone of the recording would have been more somber.

(B) The influence of bebop on the recording would have been more obvious

(C) The music on the recording would have sounded less raucous and physical

(D) His influence on rock music might have been less pervasive.

(E) The style of the recording would have been indistinguishable from that on Kind of Blue.

Brooding: 阴郁的

13．flout 轻视 clout 巨大影响

（1）But we must remember that these women scientists were few in number, their participation in decision making positions was virtually nil, and their political clout was minimal.

（2）Some companies flout the rules and employ children as young as seven.

14．tonic 滋补的 toxic有毒的

（1）The good night’s sleep had-----fect on the weary climber, who woke rreshed and eager to resume the ascent.

(A) an innocuous (B) a tonic

(C) a minor (D) an enervating

(E) a detrimental

（2）People who take megadoses of vitamins and minerals should take care: though benicial in small quantities, in large amounts these substances may have___ fects.

(A) admirable

(B) redundant

(C) intangible

(D) toxic

(E) minor

15．sway 影响力 away离开

Will and others have fallen under the sway of what one might call “genetic essentialism,” the beli that genes almost completely determine who a person is.

16．exigent紧急的 cogent有说服力的

（1）Wary of unorthodox treatments, many doctors are reluctant to concede that nutritionists have a____ argument for the use of dietary regulation as preventive medicine.

(A) cogent (B) cursory(C) vacillating(D) feckless(E) vehement

unorthodox当然不具有cogent的性质了

（2）exigent：＝urgent，emergent

17．feckless（1）软弱的，无用的（2）不负责任的

feckless<>responsible 不负责任：负责任

reckless鲁莽的

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