单词看sat考试词汇
发布:常州环球雅思英语学校 发布时间:2010-4-16 9:39:40
fastidious也是填空题考试中常考的单词,我们先看一下与它有关的考题:
(1)the actor was noted for his___ behavior: he quickly became irritated if his every whim was not immediately satisfied。
(a) fastidious
(b) sedulous
(c) vindictive
(d) petulant
(e) mercenary
(2)mac dougall’s former editors remember him as a__ man whose__ and exhaustive reporting was worth the trouble。
a. domineering, wearisome
b. congenial, pretentious
c. popular, supercilious
d. fastidious, garbled
e. cantankerous, meticulous
从意思上来说,fastidious是意群“仔细”里面的单词之一:careful, painstaking, scrupulous, meticulous, fastidious, punctilious, 其中比较特殊的一个是fastidious:fastidious implies concern, often excessive, for the requirements of taste,表示处于品位要求,通常是过分的关心,而且因为要求高而难以取悦。
那么如何记忆这个单词?我们先看一下breakfast(break+fast,fast表示绝食,打破绝食的状态,吃的第一顿饭所以是早饭),fastidious是fast(绝食)+ous(多…的),一直绝食,所以单词本义是“挑食的”,而“要求苛刻的;难以取悦的”则都是其比喻义。
四、spontaneous
接着我们再通过spontaneous来看一下单词的本义,比喻义直接的关系,因为sat单词侧重于单词的比喻义或者引申义的考察:
og-p525-s3-6:(原文太长,略去摘抄)q: based on the information in the passage, wilson’s letters can best be described as
a. cynical
b. spontaneous
c. critical
d. preachy
e. witty
spontaneous词汇书上给出的释义是“自发的,自动的;自燃的”,在这里用的是其比喻义,这里的意思是“随性的”。
五、flotsam
当我们考试的时候,肯定会碰到“新”单词来的,除了用上面提到的那个图来猜测单词的意思之外,还可以我我单词体系中的另一个概念来猜测单词意思,即音变体,所谓音变体,非常类似中国的通假字,即古人(欧洲人)因为两个发音差不多,所以会把某些单词(或者单词转化为词根)给拼错,这就是音变体的由来,如下面的考题:
2007.01-s7-6:scientists wonder what to do with the dead satellites, jettisoned rockets, drifting paint flecks, and other___ orbiting earth。
a. flotsam b. reconnaissance c. decimation d. raiment e. sustenance
flotsam是“渣滓”的意思,那么flotsam是什么意思呢?flotsam:flot(float的音变体)+sam(some的音变体),即漂流的东西,即渣滓的东西。当然这种音变的技巧,需要单词上一定程度才可以,所以建议考生参加专门的词汇课,下面是音变体的一些例子:
(1)fact/fect/feit/feat/fig/fic;
(2)claim,clam;
(3) voice, voc;
(4)sit, sid, set, sed, sess(t,d,s互换)
(5)flotsam-float+some
(6)trick-chicanery, treacherous
(7)sacred, sacrifice, consecrated
(8)au-eu(好)
(9)alt-ult: altitude, exalt—exultant, ulterior
(10)ghost-aghast
(11)fantastic-phantomlike
(12)loc, loq, log 说
(13)know的所有音变体:acknowledge, notorious, notable, ignore, ignorant, notice, notify, agnostic, prognosticate
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