SAT(Barrons)巴朗3500基础词汇(List 19)

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SAT1(Barrons)巴朗3500基础词汇

Word List 19fallacious-flinch

fallacious ADJ./假的;误导的/false; misleading. Paradoxically, fallacious reasoning does not always yield erroneous results: even though your logic may be faulty, the answer you get may nevertheless be correct. fallacy, N.

fallible ADJ./容易犯错的/liable to err. I know I am fallible, but I feel con­fident that I am right this time.

fallow ADJ./休耕地;潜伏的;不活跃的/plowed but not sowed; uncultivated. Farmers have learned that it is advisable to permit land to lie fallow every few years.

falter V./犹豫;踌躇/hesitate. When told to dive off the high board, she did not falter, but proceeded at once.

fanaticism N./狂热的，盲目的/excessive zeal; extreme devotion to a belief or cause. When Islamic fundamentalists demanded the death of Salman Rushdie because his novel questioned their faith, world opinion condemned them for their fanati­cism.

fancy N./爱好;奇特;想象/notion; whim; inclination. Martin took a fancy to paint his toenails purple. Assuming he would outgrow such fanciful behavior, his parents ignored his fancy feet. alsoADJ.

fanfare N./号角声/call by bugles or trumpets. The exposition was opened with a fanfare of trumpets and the firing of cannon.

farce N./闹剧;嘲笑/broad comedy; mockery. Nothing went right; the entire interview degenerated into a farce. farcical,ADJ.

fastidious ADJ./挑剔的;难伺候的/difficult to please; squeamish. Bobby was such a fastidious eater that he would eat a sandwich only if his mother first cut off every scrap of crust.

fatalism N./宿命论/belief that events are determined by forces beyond one's control. With fatalism, he accepted the hard­ships that beset him. fatalistic,ADJ.

fathom V./领会;调查，测量/comprehend; investigate. I find his motives impossible to fathom; in fact, I'm totally clueless about what goes on in his mind.

fatuous ADJ./愚蠢的;不可理喻的;不理智的/foolish; inane. He is far too intelligent to utter such fatuous remarks.

fauna N./动物志/animals of a period or region. The scientist could visualize the fauna of the period by examining the skeletal remains and the fossils.

fawning ADJ./奉承/courting favor by cringing and flattering. She was constantly surrounded by a group of fawning admirers who hoped to win some favor. fawn,V.

faze V./折磨，打击/disconcert; dismay. No crisis could faze the resourceful hotel manager.

feasible ADJ./可行的/practical. Is it feasible to build a new stadium for the Yankees on New York's West Side? Without addi­tional funding, the project is clearly unrealistic.

fecundity N./丰饶/fertility; fruitfulness. The fecundity of his mind is illustrated by the many vivid images in his poems.

feign V./假装;捏造/pretend. Lady Macbeth feigned illness although she was actually healthy.

feint N./假的，淡的，不鲜明的;佯攻/trick; shift; sham blow. The boxer was fooled by his opponent's feint and dropped his guard. alsoV.

felicitous ADJ./措辞巧妙的;精巧的/apt; suitably expressed; well chosen. He was famous for his felicitous remarks and was called upon to serve as master-of-ceremonies at many a banquet. felicity, N.

felicity N./欢乐;适当/happiness; appropriateness (of a remark, choice, etc.). She wrote a note to the newlyweds wishing them great felicity in their wedded life.

fell ADJ./凶猛的，致命的/cruel; deadly. The newspapers told of the tragic spread of the fell disease.

fell V./放倒，打倒/cut or knock down; bring down (with a missile). Cry­ing "Timber!" Paul Bunyan felled the mighty redwood tree. Robin Hood loosed his arrow and felled the king's deer.

felon N./重罪犯/person convicted of a grave crime. A convicted felon loses the right to vote.

feral ADJ./野生的，未驯服的/not domestic; wild. Abandoned by their owners, dogs may revert to their feral state, roaming the woods in packs.

ferment N./激怒;挑起骚动、暴乱/agitation; commotion. With the breakup of the Soviet Union, much of Eastern Europe was in a state of fer­ment.

ferret V./侦查;搜出;赶出/drive or hunt out of hiding. She ferreted out their secret.

fervent ADJ./炙热的/ardent; hot. She felt that the fervent praise was excessive and somewhat undeserved.

fervid ADJ./炙热的/ardent. Her fervid enthusiasm inspired all of us to undertake the dangerous mission.

fervor N./热情;激情/glowing ardor; intensity of feeling. At the protest rally, the students cheered the strikers and booed the dean with equal fervor.

fester V./使溃烂，化脓/rankle; produce irritation or resentment. Joe's insult festered in Anne's mind for days, and made her too angry to speak to him.

festive ADJ./欢乐;庆祝/joyous; celebratory. Their wedding in the park was a festive occasion.

fetid ADJ./恶臭的/malodorous. The neglected wound became fetid.

fetter V./羁绊/shackle. The prisoner was fettered to the wall.

fiasco N./彻底失败/total failure. Our ambitious venture ended in a fiasco and we were forced to flee.

fickle ADJ./变化无常的;薄情的/changeable; faithless. As soon as Romeo saw Juliet, he forgot all about his old girlfriend Rosaline. Was Romeo fickle?

fictitious ADJ./想象的/imaginary. Although this book purports to be a biography of George Washington, many of the incidents are fictitious.

fidelity N./忠诚/loyalty. A dog's fidelity to its owner is one of the reasons why that animal is a favorite household pet.

figment N./发明;臆造的事务/invention; imaginary thing. That incident never took place; it is a figment of your imagination.

figurative ADJ./比喻/not literal, but metaphorical; using a figure of speech. "To lose one's marbles" is a figurative expres­sion; if you're told that Jack has lost his marbles, no one expects you to rush out to buy him a replacement set.

figurine N./小雕像/small ornamental statuette. In The Maltese Fal­con, Sam Spade was hired to trace the missing figurine of a black bird.

filament N./灯丝;精细的织物或线/fine thread or fiber; threadlike structure within a light bulb. A ray of sunlight illuminated the filaments of the spider web, turning the web into a net of gold.

filch V./偷/steal. The boys filched apples from the fruit stand.

filial ADJ./子女的/pertaining to a son or daughter. Many children forget their filial obligations and disregard the wishes of their parents.

filibuster V./(发表长篇演讲来)阻挠法案通过/to block legislation by making long speeches. Even though we disapproved of Senator Foghorn's political goals, we were impressed by his ability to filibuster end­lessly to keep an issue from coming to a vote.

finale N./结论，结尾，结局/conclusion. It is not until we reach the finale of this play that we can understand the author's message.

finesse N./精密的技巧/delicate skill. The finesse and adroitness with which the surgeon wielded her scalpel impressed all the observers in the operating room.

finicky ADJ./过分讲究;鸡毛蒜皮/too particular; fussy. The little girl was finicky about her food, leaving over anything that wasn't to her taste.

firebrand N./总惹麻烦的人，惹事生非者，捣乱人/hothead: troublemaker. The police tried to keep track of all the local firebrands when the President came to town.

fissure N./裂缝;分歧/crevice. The mountain climbers securedfootholds in tiny fissures in the rock.

fitful ADJ./断断续续;间歇/spasmodic; intermittent. After several fitful attempts, he decided to pos官方真题Officialne the start of the project until he felt more energetic.

flabbergasted ADJ./大吃一惊;目瞪口呆/astounded; astonished; overcome with surprise. In the film Flubber, the hero invents a remarkable substance whose amazing properties leave his coworkers flabbergasted. flabbergast,V.

flaccid ADJ./软弱的;无活力的/flabby. His sedentary life had left him with flac­cidmuscles.

flag V./萎缩;衰退/droop; grow feeble. When the opposing hockey team scored its third goal only minutes into the first quarter, the home team's spirits flagged. flagging,ADJ.

flagrant ADJ./非常坏的;残忍的;恶名昭著的/conspicuously wicked; blatant; outrageous. The governor's appointment of his brother-in-law to the State Supreme Court was a flagrantviolation of the state laws against nepotism (favoritism based on kinship).

flair N./才能/talent. She has an uncanny flair for discovering new artists before the public has become aware of their existence.

flamboyant ADJ./华丽的/ornate. Modern architecture has dis­carded the flamboyant trimming on buildings and empha­sizes simplicity of line.

flaunt V./招摇;炫耀/display ostentatiously. Mae West saw nothing wrong with showing off her considerable physical charms, saying, "Honey, if you've got it, flaunt it!"

fleck V./使起斑点/spot. Her cheeks, flecked with tears, were testi­mony to the hours of weeping.

fledgling ADJ./无经验的/inexperienced. While it is necessary to pro­vide these fledglingpoets with an opportunity to present their work, it is not essential that we admire everything they write. also N.

fleece N./羊毛外套/wool coat of a sheep. They shear sheep of their fleece, which they then comb into separate strands of wool.

fleece V./抢劫;诈骗/rob; plunder. The tricksters fleeced him of his inheritance.

flick N./轻弹;轻打/light stroke as with a whip. The horse needed no encouragement; one flick of the whip was all the jockey had to apply to get the animal to run at top speed.

flinch V./畏首畏尾，退缩;犹豫/hesitate, shrink. He did not flinch in the face of danger but fought back bravely.