SAT必备词汇：宗教及生活习惯常用词(八)

三 单词串讲(6)

332.misgiving: certainty 疑虑:必然

Even though the large computer company seems to have cornered the personal computer and software market, the CEO insists that his company has no___ the industry.

(A) interest in

(B) misgivings about

(C) monopoly on

(D) responsibility in

(E) consensus on

333.mockery: tribute 嘲弄:尊重

334.monotonous: piebald单调的:花斑的

The salesman’s speech was so ------- that nearly everyone in the room purchased something.

A. monotonous B. persuasive C. unique D. damaging

335.morbid: hale/salubrious/verdant 病态的:健康的

(1) 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?

(2) He displayed a nearly pathological__, insisting on knowing every detail of his friends’ lives.

(A) orderliness (B) credulity (C) curiosity (D) shyness (E) morbidity

336.moribund : hale/beginning/currency/nascent垂死的:健康的

Oren missed the play’s overarching significance, focusing instead on details so minor that they would best be described as -----.

A. pragmatic B. indelible C. moribund D. picayune E. impervious