SAT1(Barrons)巴朗3500基础词汇(List 50)

　　SAT1(Barrons)巴朗3500基础词汇

Word List 50 volatile-zephyr

volatile ADJ./挥发的；飞行的；可变的；爆炸的/changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly. The political climate today is extremely volatile: No one can predict what the electorate will do next. Maria Callas's tem­per was extremely volatile: The only thing you could predict was that she was sure to blow up. Acetone is an extremely volatile liquid: It evaporates instantly.

volition N./意志/act of making a conscious choice. She selected this dress of her own volition.

voluble ADJ./口齿伶俐的；爱说话的/fluent; glib; talkative. The excessively voluble speaker suffers from logorrhea: he runs off at the mouth a lot!

voluminousADJ./庞大的/bulky; large. A caftan is a voluminous garment; most people wearing one look as if they're draped in a small tent.

voluptuousADJ./令人满足的/gratifying the senses. The nobility during the Renaissance led voluptuous lives.

voracious ADJ./贪婪的；狼吞虎咽的/ravenous. The wolf is a voracious animal, its hunger never satisfied.

vortex N./漩涡；漩涡中心；（争斗、讨论的）中心/whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged. Sucked into the vortex of the tornado, Dorothy and Toto were car­ried from Kansas to Oz.

vouchsafe V./允许；赐予/grant; choose to give in reply; permit. Occa­sionally the rock star would drift out onto the balcony and vouchsafe the crowd below a glimpse of her cele­brated features. The professor vouchsafed not a word to the students' questions about what would be covered on the test.

voyeur N./偷窥者/Peeping Tom. Nancy called her brother a voyeur when she caught him aiming his binoculars at an upstairs window of the house of the newlyweds next door.

vulnerable ADJ./易受攻击的/susceptible to wounds. His opponents could not harm Achilles, who was vulnerable only in his heel.

waffle V./闲聊；胡扯/speak equivocally about an issue. When asked directly about the governor's involvement in the savings and loan scandal, the press secretary waffled, talking all around the issue.

waft V./飘荡；信号/moved gently by wind or waves. Daydreaming, he gazed at the leaves that wafted past his window.

waggish ADJ./滑稽的；爱开玩笑的/mischievous; humorous; tricky. He was a prankster who, unfortunately, often overlooked the damage he could cause with his waggish tricks. wag, N.

waif N./流浪儿童；流浪者/homeless child or animal. Although he already had eight cats, he could not resist adopting yet another feline waif.

waive V./暂时放弃；屈从/give up temporarily; yield. I will waive my rights in this matter in order to expedite our reaching a proper decision.

wake N./尾迹；痕迹/trail of ship or other object through water; path of something that has gone before. The wake of the swan glid­ing through the water glistened in the moonlight. Reporters and photographers converged on South Carolina in the wake of the hurricane that devastated much of the eastern seaboard.

wallow V./打滚；沉湎；堕落/roll in; indulge in; become helpless. The hip­popotamus loves to wallow in the mud.

wan ADJ./苍白的/having a pale or sickly color; pallid. Suckling asked, "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?"

wane V./减少；变弱/decrease in size or strength; draw gradually to an end. When lit, does a wax candle wane?

wanton ADJ./荒唐的；挥霍的；放荡的；不受限制的/unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste. Pointing to the stack of bills, Sheldon criticized Sarah for her wanton expenditures. In response, Sarah accused Shel­don of making an unfounded, wanton attack.

warble V./颤声轻唱；鸟鸣/sing; babble. Every morning the birds warbled outside her window. also N.

warrant V./授权；证明；批准/justify; authorize. Before the judge issues the injunction, you must convince her this action is warranted.

warranty N./担保；保证/guarantee; assurance by seller. The pur­chaser of this automobile is protected by the manufac­turer's warranty that the company will replace any defective part for five years or 50,000 miles.

wary ADJ./机警的；小心的/very cautious. The spies grew wary as they approached the sentry.

wastrel N./废物；饭桶；放荡的人/profligate. His neighbors denounced him as a wastrelwho had dissipated his inheritance.

watershed N./分水岭/crucial dividing point. The invention of the personal computer proved a historic watershed, for it opened the way to today's Information Age.

wax V./增长/increase; grow. With proper handling, his fortunes waxed and he became rich.

waylay V./埋伏；伏击；抢劫/ambush; lie in wait. They agreed to waylay their victim as he passed through the dark alley going home.

wean V./断奶；丢弃/accustom a baby to not nurse; give up a cher­ished activity. He decided he would wean himself away from eating junk food and stick to fruits and vegetables.

weather V./侵蚀；风化/endure the effects of weather or other forces. He weathered the changes in his personal life with difficulty, as he had no one in whom to confide.

welter N./翻滚；挣扎；骚乱；搅乱/turmoil; bewildering jumble. The existing welter of overlapping federal and state programs cries out for immediate reform.

wheedle V./哄骗；诱骗/cajole; coax; deceive by flattery. She knows she can wheedle almost anything she wants from her father.

whelp N./幼兽/young wolf, dog, tiger, etc. This collie whelp won't do for breeding, but he'd make a fine pet.

whet V./锐化；刺激/sharpen; stimulate. The odors from the kitchen are whetting my appetite; I will be ravenous by the time the meal is served.

whiff N./一吹；一喷/puff or gust (of air, scent, etc.); hint. The slightest whiff of Old Spice cologne brought memories of George to her mind.

whimsical ADJ./无常的；古怪的/capricious; fanciful. In Mrs. Doubtfire, the hero is a playful, whimsical man who takes a notion to dress up as a woman so that he can look after his children, who are in the custody of his ex-wife. whimsy, N.

whinny V./马嘶/neigh like a horse. When he laughed through his nose, it sounded as if he whinnied.

whittle V./切；削；损害/pare; cut off bits. As a present for Aunt Polly, Tom whittled some clothespins out of a chunk of wood.

willful ADJ./顽固的；故意的/intentional; headstrong. Donald had planned to kill his wife for months; clearly, her death was a case of deliberate, willful murder, not a crime of passion committed by a hasty, willful youth unable to foresee the conse­quences of his deeds.

wilyADJ./狡猾的/cunning; artful. She is as wily as a fox in avoiding trouble.

wince V./退缩/shrink back; flinch. The screech of the chalk on the blackboard made her wince.

windfall N./横财/unexpected lucky event. This huge tax refund is quite a windfall.

winnow V./扬谷；分出好坏/sift; separate good parts from bad. This test will winnow out the students who study from those who don't bother.

winsome ADJ./迷人的/agreeable; gracious; engaging. By her win­some manner, she made herself liked by everyone who met her.

wispyADJ./纤细的；脆弱的/thin; slight; barely discernible. Worried about preserving his few wispy tufts of hair, Walter carefully mas­saged his scalp and applied hair restorer every night.

wistful ADJ./渴望的/vaguely longing; sadly thoughtful. With a last wistful glance at the happy couples dancing in the hall, Sue headed back to her room to study for her exam.

withdrawn ADJ./内向的；孤僻的/introverted; remote. Rebuffed by his col­leagues, the initially outgoing young researcher became increasingly withdrawn.

wither V./凋谢；枯萎/shrivel; decay. Cut flowers are beautiful for a day, but all too soon they wither.

withhold V./拒给；保留/refuse to give; hold back. The tenants decided to withhold a portion of the rent until the landlord kept his promise to renovate the building.

withstand V./抵抗；经受住/stand up against; successfully resist. If you can withstand all the peer pressure in high school to cut classes and goof off, you should survive college just fine.

witless ADJ./无知的；轻率的/foolish; idiotic. If Beavis is a half-wit, then Butthead is totally witless.

witticism N./俏皮话/witty saying; wisecrack. I don't mean any criti­cism, but that last witticism totally hurt my feelings.

wizardry N./巫术，魔术/sorcery; magic. Merlin the Magician amazed the knights with his wizardry.

woe N./悲哀的/deep, inconsolable grief; affliction; suffering. Pale and wan with grief, Wanda was bowed down beneath the burden of her woes.

worldly ADJ./世俗的/engrossed in matters of this earth; not spiri­tual. You must leave your worldly goods behind you when you go to meet your Maker.

wrath N./恼火；愤怒/anger; fury. She turned to him, full of wrath, and said, "What makes you think I'll accept lower pay for this job than you get?"

wrench V./扭曲；扭伤；曲解；折磨；拉/pull; strain; twist. She wrenched free of her attacker and landed a powerful kick to his kneecap.

writhe V./翻腾/twist in coils; contort in pain. In Dances with Snakes, the snake dancer wriggled sinuously as her boa constrictor writhed around her torso.

wryADJ./歪曲的；扭曲的/twisted; with a humorous twist. We enjoy Dorothy Parker's verse for its wrywit.

xenophobia N./惧外的/fear or hatred of foreigners. When the refugee arrived in America, he was unprepared for the xenophobia he found there.

yen N./渴望；瘾/longing; urge. She had a yen to get away and live on her own for a while.

yield V./屈服；放弃/give in; surrender. The wounded knight refused to yield to his foe.

yield N./产出；（投资的）回报/amount produced; crop; income on investment. An experienced farmer can estimate the annual yield of his acres with surprising accuracy. alsoV.

yoke V./结合；连接/join together, unite. I don't wish to be yoked to him in marriage, as if we were cattle pulling a plow. also N.

yore N./往昔/time past. He dreamed of the elegant homes of yore, but gave no thought to their inelegant plumbing.

zany ADJ./滑稽的；疯狂的/crazy; comic. I can watch the Marx brothers' zany antics for hours.

zeal N./热心；热诚/eager enthusiasm. Katya's zeal was contagious; soon all her fellow students were busily making posters, inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause. zealous,ADJ.

zealot N./狂热者/fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal. Though Glenn was devout, he was no zealot, he never tried to force his beliefs on his friends.

zenith N./顶点/point directly overhead in the sky; summit. When the sun was at its zenith, the glare was not as strong as at sunrise and sunset.

zephyr N./和风；徐风/gentle breeze; west wind. When these zephyrs blow, it is good to be in an open boat under a full sail.

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