SAT常用词汇总结181-241

　　SAT常用词汇总结181-241

　　181. champion to support; to fight for; to endorse; to advocate; to commend

　　182. mediocre second-rate; average-to-poor quality

　　183. domestic relating to the home; relating to ones country; fitting in at home; indigenous

　　184. pedantic overly academic about minor matters; being a stickler for academic correctness

　　185. wary cautious; careful; prudent; circumspect;apprehensive; diffident

　　186. vulnerable able to be hurt; weak

　　187. opportunist someone who takes advantage of opportunities, often exploiting them selfishly

　　188. discriminating selective; making a clear distinction between things; to treat differently; discerning; distinguishing

　　189. adept skillful

　　190. anachronistic out of date; extremely old-fashioned way of doing something; dated and no longer needed; obsolete; no longer contemporary

　　191. provincial relating to a region or province; narrow-minded;parochial

　　192. obstinate stubborn; intractable

　　193. heresy a statement, action, or belief that goes a dominant religion or system of beliefs; more generally, any belief that goes sharply against the accepted viewpoint on a subject; a radically unconventional idea or action

　　194. articulate able to express ideas clearly; coherent; lucid

　　195. formal standard; following rules; proper; ceremonial;conventional; relating to superficial conventions

　　196. detached unemotional; unbiased; objective almost to the point of being indifferent; neutral

　　197. conformist someone who follows rules or conventions

　　198. complement to fit well with; to complete something

　　199. intrepid brave; fearless; undaunted

　　200. feasible possible; workable; likely to happen

　　201. proponent a supporter; a champion; one who endorses; an advocate

　　202. reprehensible deserving great blame; wicked; evil

　　203. extol to praise highly; to commend

　　204. compatible able to exist with something else; well-matched;harmonious

　　205. radical not moderate; extremely unconventional, and almost heretical

　　206. erratic moving in an unpredictable way; unpredictable;inconsistent

　　207. inherent inborn; essential; innate

　　208. resilient quickly bouncing back; flexible under pressure;resolute

　　209. tractable obedient; easily controlled; amenable

　　210. clandestine secret; surreptitious

　　211. commend to praise; to extol

　　212. adversity a difficult, harmful, or dangerous situation

　　213. convoluted complicated; twisted; incoherent

　　214. empathy ability to see and feel things from another persons point of view; sympathetic

　　215. inundate to flood; to overwhelm with overabundance

　　216. genial friendly; good-natured; kind; sympathetic;gregarious; amiable; amicable

　　217. insolvent unable to pay; out of money

　　218. impede to block; to hinder; to delay; to inhibit

　　219. equivocal intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring ones meaning, often in response to a question

　　220. decisive quick to decide; definite or definitive; determined;resolute

　　221. transcend to move beyond and often to overcome; to surpass

　　222. prohibitive tending to prevent or impede; precluding

　　223. dilatory delaying; not prompt

　　224. divisive tending to divide parties; creating or stirring up disagreement

　　225. tolerant accepting of differences with others; able to dealwith; amicable

　　226. cerebral intellectual; relating to the brain

　　227. cantankerous bad-tempered; irritable

　　228. consensus general agreement; concord

　　229. notion an idea or concept, usually unproven; a hypothesis

　　230. compound to combine; to increase

　　231. circumscribe to draw a line around; to restrict; to define

　　232. tentative not final; dependent; unsure; not definitive or decisive

　　233. enigmatic puzzling; mysterious; obscure

　　234. colleague a coworker, especially in a particular business or profession; a collaborator

　　235. regenerate to grow back; to regain health

　　236. hackneyed unoriginal; overused; banal; prosaic; mundane;vapid

　　237. preclude to prevent; to make impossible; to prohibit

　　238. attribute to claim something as a cause, a characteristic, or an aspect of something

　　239. na?ve unsophisticated; innocent; childlike; ingenuous

　　240. abundant plentiful; not scarce

　　241. chronological in order of time