SAT最常见的1000个词汇（A-1）

　　该词表中的词汇主要是针对美国学生挑选出来的，这1000个词汇是属于SAT考试中常出现但美国学生却不熟悉的词汇，因此该词表中的词汇难度较大。如果你是刚刚接触SAT的考生，最好不要立即使用该词表，推荐留在备考的最后阶段再使用。 

　　SAT Vocabulary--The 1000 Most Common SAT Words

　　A

　　abase

　　(v.)

　　to humiliate, degrade

　　(After being overthrown and abased, the deposed

　　leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.)

　　abate

　　(v.)

　　to reduce, lessen

　　(The rain poured down for a while, then abated.)

　　abdicate

　　(v.)

　　to give up a position, usually one of leadership

　　(When he realized that the

　　revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)

　　abduct

　　(v.)

　　to kidnap, take by force

　　(The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her

　　happy home.)

　　aberration

　　(n.)

　　something that differs from the norm

　　(In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won

　　the World Series, but the success turned out to be an aberration, and the Red Sox

　　have not won a World Series since.)

　　abet

　　(v.)

　　to aid, help, encourage

　　(The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the

　　inside to abet him.)

　　SAT Vocabulary

　　A

　　abhor

　　(v.)

　　to hate, detest

　　(Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head

　　when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.)

　　abide

　　1.

　　(v.)

　　to put up with

　　(Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided

　　to abide by it.)

　　2.

　　(v.)

　　to remain

　　(Despite the beating they’ve taken from the weather

　　throughout the millennia, the mountains abide.)

　　abject

　　(adj.)

　　wretched, pitiful

　　(After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and

　　breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.)

　　abjure

　　(v.)

　　to reject, renounce

　　(To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil

　　policies of his wicked predecessor.)

　　abnegation

　　(n.)

　　denial of comfort to oneself

　　(The holy man slept on the floor, took only

　　cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.)

　　abort

　　(v.)

　　to give up on a half-finished project or effort

　　(After they ran out of food, the

　　men, attempting to jump rope around the world, had to abort and go home.)

　　abridge

　　1.

　　(v.)

　　to cut down, shorten

　　(The publisher thought the dictionary was too long

　　and abridged it.)

　　2.

　　(adj.)

　　shortened

　　(Moby-Dick is such a long book that even the

　　abridged version is longer than most normal books.)

　　abrogate

　　(v.)

　　to abolish, usually by authority

　　(The Bill of Rights assures that the

　　government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.)

　　abscond

　　(v.)

　　to sneak away and hide

　　(In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into the

　　night with the secret plans.)

　　absolution

　　(n.)

　　freedom from blame, guilt, sin

　　(Once all the facts were known, the jury

　　gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty.)

　　abstain

　　(v.)

　　to freely choose not to commit an action

　　(Everyone demanded that Angus

　　put on the kilt, but he did not want to do it and abstained.)

　　abstruse

　　(adj.)

　　hard to comprehend

　　(Everyone else in the class understood geometry

　　easily, but John found the subject abstruse.)

　　accede

　　(v.)

　　to agree

　　(When the class asked the teacher whether they could play baseball

　　instead of learn grammar they expected him to refuse, but instead he acceded to

　　their request.)

　　accentuate

　　(v.)

　　to stress, highlight

　　(Psychologists agree that those people who are

　　happiest accentuate the positive in life.)