SAT巴朗3500基礎(chǔ)詞匯精選（15）

SAT巴朗3500基礎(chǔ)詞匯精選（15）

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　　dishearten V./挫敗/discourage; cause to lose courage or hope. His failure to pass the bar exam disheartened him.
　　disheveled ADJ./邋遢，骯臟/untidy. Your disheveled appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.
　　disinclination N./不情愿，厭惡/unwillingness. Some mornings I feel agreat disinclination to get out of bed
　　disingenuous ADJ./不誠懇的/lacking genuine candor; insincere. Now that we know the mayor and his wife are engaged in a bitter divorce fight, we find their earlier remarks regretting their lack of time together remarkably disingenuous.
　　disinter V./挖出，出土/dig up; unearth. They disinterred the body and held an autopsy.
　　disinterested ADJ./公允的/unprejudiced. Given the judge's political ambitions and the lawyers' financial interest in the case, the only disinterested person in the courtroom may have been the court reporter.
　　disjointed ADJ./斷開/disconnected. His remarks were so dis­jointed that we could not follow his reasoning.
　　dislodge V./強制移除/remove (forcibly). Thrusting her fist up under the choking man's lower ribs, Margaret used the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge the food caught in his throat.
　　dismantle V./拆除/take apart. When the show closed, they dis­mantled the scenery before storing it.
　　dismay V./使沮喪;使害怕/discourage; frighten. The huge amount of work she had left to do dismayed her. also N.

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　　dismember V./分解，肢解/cut into small parts. When the Austrian Empire was dismembered, several new countries were established.
　　dismiss V./拒絕;排除/put away from consideration; reject. Believing in John's love for her, she dismissed the notion that he might be unfaithful. (secondary meaning)
　　disparage V./忽略，輕視/belittle. A doting mother, Emma was more likely to praise her son's crude attempts at art than to dis­parage them.
　　disparate ADJ./大相徑庭的;沒關(guān)系的/basically different; unrelated. Unfortunately, Tony and Tina have disparate notions of marriage: Tony sees it as a carefree extended love affair, while Tina sees it as a solemn commitment to build a family and a home.
　　disparity N./不同;差距/difference; condition of inequality. Their dis­parity in rank made no difference at all to the prince and Cinderella.
　　dispassionate ADJ./平靜的;公平的/calm; impartial. Known in the company for his cool judgment, Bill could impartially examine the causes of a problem, giving a dispassionate analysis ofwhat had gone wrong, and go on to suggest how to correct the mess.
　　dispatch N./急速;急件/speediness; prompt execution; message sent with all due speed. Young Napoleon defeated the enemy with all possible dispatch; he then sent a dispatch to head­quarters informing his commander of the great victory. alsoV.
　　dispel V./散開;分裂;消失/scatter; drive away; cause to vanish. The bright sunlight eventually dispelled the morning mist.
　　disperse V./散開/scatter. The police fired tear gas into the crowd to disperse the protesters. dispersion, N.
　　dispirited ADJ./沒情緒的，沮喪的/lacking in spirit. The coach used all the tricks at his command to buoy up the enthusiasm of his team, which had become dispirited at the loss of the star player.
　　disputatiousADJ./好辯的/argumentative; fond of arguing. Con­vinced he knew more than his lawyers, Alan was a disputa­tious client, ready to argue about the best way to conduct the case. disputant, N.
　　disquiet V./使焦慮，使難受/make uneasy or anxious. Holmes's absence for a day, slightly disquieted Watson; after a week with no word, however, Watson's uneasiness about his missing friend had grown into a deep fear for his safety. disquietude, N.
　　dissection N./分析;解剖/analysis; cutting apart in order to examine. The dissection of frogs in the laboratory is particularly unpleasant to some students.
　　dissemble V./偽裝，做作，掩飾/disguise; pretend. Even though John tried to dissemble his motive for taking modern dance, we all knew he was there not to dance but to meet girls.
　　disseminate V./分發(fā)，擴散，散布/distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds). By their use of the Internet, propagandists have been able to disseminate their pet doctrines to new audiences around the globe.
　　dissent V./反對/disagree. In the recent Supreme Court decision, Justice O'Connor dissented from the majority opinion. also N.
　　dissertation N./論文(博士生)/formal essay. In order to earn a graduate degree from many of our universities, a candidate is fre­quently required to prepare a dissertation on some schol­arly subject.
　　dissident ADJ./持不同意見的;難于對付的/dissenting; rebellious. In the purge that fol­lowed the student demonstrations at Tiananmen Square, the government hunted down the dissident students and their supporters. also N.

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　　dissimulateV./偽裝，做作，掩飾/pretend; conceal by feigning. She tried to dissimulate her grief by her exuberant attitude.
　　dissipate V./驅(qū)散，消散;浪費/squander; waste; scatter. He is a fine artist, but I fear he may dissipate his gifts if he keeps wasting his time playing games.
　　dissolute ADJ./放縱，揮霍/loose in morals. The dissolute life led by the ancient Romans is indeed shocking.
　　dissolutionN./解散;終止;解體/breaking of a union; decay; termination. Which caused King Lear more suffering: the dissolution of his kingdom into warring factions, or the dissolution of his aged, failing body?
　　dissonanceN./不和諧的(聲音)/discord. Composer Charles Ives often used dissonance-clashing or unresolved chords-for special effects in his musical works.
　　dissuade V./勸阻;使灰心/persuade not to do; discourage. Since Tom could not dissuade Huck from running away from home, he decided to run away with him. dissuasion, N.
　　distant ADJ./冷漠的;遠離的/reserved or aloof; cold in manner. His distant greeting made me feel unwelcome from the start. (sec­ondary meaning)
　　distend V./擴大;擴張/expand; swell out. I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins distend on his forehead.
　　distill V./蒸餾;萃取，提煉，提純/extract the essence; purify; refine. A moonshiner distills mash into whiskey; an epigrammatist distills thoughts into quips.
　　distinction N./出名;出格/honor; contrast; discrimination. A holder of the Medal of Honor, George served with great distinction in World War II. He made a distinction, however, between World War II and Vietnam, which he considered an immoral conflict.
　　distort V./扭曲，歪曲/twist out of shape. It is difficult to believe the newspaper accounts of the riots because of the way some reporters distort and exaggerate the actual events. distor­tion, N.
　　distraught ADJ./使悲傷;使焦慮/upset; distracted by anxiety. The dis­traught parents frantically searched the ravine for their lost child.
　　diurnal ADJ./日常的/daily. A farmer cannot neglect his diurnal tasks at any time; cows, for example, must be milked regularly.
　　diva N./著名女歌唱家，天后;歌劇女主角/operatic singer; prima donna. Although world famous as a diva, she did not indulge in fits of tempera­ment. ..
　　diverge V./多樣的;各異的/vary; go in different directions from the same point. The spokes of the wheel diverge from the hub.
　　divergent ADJ./分歧的/differing; deviating. Since graduating from medical school, the two doctors have taken divergent paths, one going on to become a nationally prominent sur­geon, the other dedicating himself to a small family practice in his home town. divergence, N.
　　diverse ADJ./豐富多樣的/differing in some characteristics; various. The professor suggested diverse ways of approaching the assignment and recommended that we choose one of them. diversity, N.

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　　diversion N./轉(zhuǎn)移;解悶/act of turning aside; pastime. After studying for several hours, he needed a diversion from work. divert,V.
　　diversity N./多樣性/variety; dissimilitude. The diversity of colleges in this country indicates that many levels of ability are being cared for.
　　divest V./剝奪/strip; deprive. He was divested of his power to act and could no longer govern. divestiture, N.
　　divine V./運用直覺，超能力;預(yù)見/perceive intuitively; foresee the future. Nothing infuriated Tom more than Aunt Polly's ability to divine when he was telling the truth.
　　divulge V./揭開，暴露/reveal. No lover of gossip, Charlotte would never divulge anything that a friend told her in confidence.
　　docile ADJ./馴服的，聽話的;善良的/obedient; easily managed. As docile as he seems today, that old lion was once a ferocious, snarling beast. docility, N.
　　doctrinaire ADJ./教條的;頑固的/unable to compromise about points of doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding. Weng had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change in China, but the repressive response of the doctri­naire hard-liners crushed his dreams of democracy.
　　doctrine N./教育;學(xué)說/teachings, in general; particular principle (reli­gious, legal, etc.) taught. He was so committed to the doc­trines of his faith that he was unable to evaluate them impartially.
　　document V./書面證明/provide written evidence. She kept all the receipts from her business trip in order to document her expenses for the firm. also N.
　　doff V./脫/take off. A gentleman used to doff his hat to a lady.
　　dogged ADJ./頑固的;頑強的/determined; stubborn. Les Miserables tells of Inspector Javert's long, dogged pursuit of the criminal Jean Valjean.

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