SAT最常见的1000个词汇（D-2）

　　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。 

disaffected (adj.) rebellious, resentful of authority (Dismayed by Bobby’s poor
behavior, the parents sent their disaffected son to a military academy to be
disciplined.)
disavow (v.) to deny knowledge of or responsibility for (Not wanting others to criticize
her, she disavowed any involvement in the company’s hiring scandal.)
discern (v.) to perceive, detect (Though he hid his emotions, she discerned from his body
language that he was angry.)
disclose (v.) to reveal, make public (The CEO disclosed to the press that the company
would have to fire several employees.)
discomfit (v.) to thwart, baffle (The normally cheery and playful children’s sudden
misery discomfited the teacher.)
discordant (adj.) not agreeing, not in harmony with (The girls’ sobs were a discordant
sound amid the general laughter that filled the restaurant.)
discrepancy (n.) difference, failure of things to correspond (He was troubled by the
discrepancy between what he remembered paying for the appliance and what his
receipt showed he paid for it.)
discretion (n.) the quality of being reserved in speech or action; good judgment (Not
wanting her patient to get overly anxious, the doctor used discretion in deciding how
much to tell the patient about his condition.)
discursive (adj.) rambling, lacking order (The professor’s discursive lectures seemed to
be about every subject except the one initially described.)
disdain 1. (v.) to scorn, hold in low esteem (Insecure about their jobs, the older
employees disdained the recently hired ones, who were young and capable.) 2. (n.)
scorn, low esteem (After learning of his immoral actions, Justine held Lawrence in
disdain.)
disgruntled (adj.) upset, not content (The child believed that his parents had unjustly
grounded him, and remained disgruntled for a week.)

disheartened (adj.) feeling a loss of spirit or morale (The team was disheartened after
losing in the finals of the tournament.)
disparage (v.) to criticize or speak ill of (The saleswoman disparaged the competitor’s
products to persuade her customers to buy what she was selling.)
disparate (adj.) sharply differing, containing sharply contrasting elements (Having
widely varying interests, the students had disparate responses toward the novel.)

dispatch (v.) to send off to accomplish a duty (The carpenter dispatched his assistant to
fetch wood.)
dispel (v.) to drive away, scatter (She entered the office as usual on Monday, dispelling
the rumor that she had been fired.)
disperse (v.) to scatter, cause to scatter (When the rain began to pour, the crowd at the
baseball game quickly dispersed.)
disrepute (n.) a state of being held in low regard (The officer fell into disrepute after it
was learned that he had disobeyed the orders he had given to his own soldiers.)
dissemble (v.) to conceal, fake (Not wanting to appear heartlessly greedy, she
dissembled and hid her intention to sell her ailing father’s stamp collection.)
disseminate (v.) to spread widely (The politician disseminated his ideas across the town
before the election.)
dissent 1. (v.) to disagree (The principal argued that the child should repeat the fourth
grade, but the unhappy parents dissented.) 2. (n.) the act of disagreeing
(Unconvinced that the defendant was guilty, the last juror voiced his dissent with
the rest of the jury.)
dissipate 1. (v.) to disappear, cause to disappear (The sun finally came out and
dissipated the haze.) 2. (v.) to waste (She dissipated her fortune on a series of bad
investments.)
dissonance (n.) lack of harmony or consistency (Though the president of the company
often spoke of the company as reliant solely upon its workers, her decision to increase
her own salary rather than reward her employees revealed a striking dissonance
between her alleged beliefs and her actions.)
dissuade (v.) to persuade someone not to do something (Worried that he would catch a
cold, she tried to dissuade him from going out on winter nights.)
distend (v.) to swell out (Years of drinking beer caused his stomach to distend.)
dither (v.) to be indecisive (Not wanting to offend either friend, he dithered about
which of the two birthday parties he should attend.)
divine (adj.) godly, exceedingly wonderful (Terribly fond of desserts, she found the rich
chocolate cake to be divine.)
divisive (adj.) causing dissent, discord (Her divisive tactics turned her two friends
against each other.)

divulge (v.) to reveal something secret (Pressured by the press, the government finally
divulged the previously unknown information.)

docile (adj.) easily taught or trained (She successfully taught the docile puppy several
tricks.)
dogmatic (adj.) aggressively and arrogantly certain about uNPRoved principles (His
dogmatic claim that men were better than women at fixing appliances angered
everyone.)
dormant (adj.) sleeping, temporarily inactive (Though she pretended everything was
fine, her anger lay dormant throughout the dinner party and exploded in screams of
rage after everyone had left.)
dour (adj.)stern, joyless (The children feared their dour neighbor because the old man
would take their toys if he believed they were being too loud.)
dubious (adj.) doubtful, of uncertain quality (Suspicious that he was only trying to get a
raise, she found his praise dubious.)
duplicity (n.) crafty dishonesty (His duplicity involved convincing his employees to let
him lower their salaries and increase their stock options, and then to steal the money
he saved and run the company into the ground.)
duress (n.) hardship, threat (It was only under intense duress that he, who was
normally against killing, fired his gun.)
dynamic (adj.) actively changing (The parents found it hard to keep up with the
dynamic music scene with which their children had become very familiar.)