บทความนี้ผมมีคำศัพท์มาฝากเพื่อนๆอีกเช่นเคย สำหรับคนที่กำลังฝึกภาษาอังกฤษ โดยเฉพาะคนที่กำลังเตรียมตัวสอบ SAT เนื่องจากว่านี่เป็น “100 คำศัพท์ภาษาอังกฤษที่พบได้บ่อยในข้อสอบ SAT” นั่นเองครับ
- abate
become less in amount or intensity
- abdicate
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
- aberration
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
- abstain
choose not to consume
- adversity
a state of misfortune or affliction
- aesthetic
concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
- amicable
characterized by friendship and good will
- anachronistic
chronologically misplaced
- arid
lacking sufficient water or rainfall
- asylum
a shelter from danger or hardship
- benevolent
showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
- bias
a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
- boisterous
full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
- brazen
unrestrained by convention or propriety
- brusque
marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- camaraderie
the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
- canny
showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
- capacious
large in capacity
- capitulate
surrender under agreed conditions
- clairvoyant
someone who has the power of clairvoyance
- collaborate
work together on a common enterprise of project
- compassion
a deep awareness of and sympathy for another’s suffering
- compromise
an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
- condescending
(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
- conditional
imposing or depending on or containing a condition
- conformist
someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters)
- conundrum
a difficult problem
- convergence
the act of converging (coming closer)
- deleterious
harmful to living things
- demagogue
a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
- digression
a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
- diligent
quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness
- discredit
the state of being held in low esteem
- disdain
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- divergent
tending to move apart in different directions
- empathy
understanding and entering into another’s feelings
- emulate
strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
- enervating
causing debilitation
- ephemeral
anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
- evanescent
tending to vanish like vapor
- exemplary
worthy of imitation
- extenuating
partially excusing or justifying
- florid
elaborately or excessively ornamented
- forbearance
a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting
- fortitude
strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
- fortuitous
occurring by happy chance
- foster
providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
- fraught
filled with or attended with
- frugal
avoiding waste
- hackneyed
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- haughty
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
- hedonist
someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
- hypothesis
a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
- impetuous
characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
- impute
attribute or credit to
- inconsequential
lacking worth or importance
- inevitable
incapable of being avoided or prevented
- intrepid
invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- intuitive
spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
- jubilation
a feeling of extreme joy
- lobbyist
someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist’s employer
- longevity
the property of being long-lived
- mundane
found in the ordinary course of events
- nonchalant
marked by blithe unconcern
- opulent
rich and superior in quality
- orator
a person who delivers a speech or oration
- ostentatious
intended to attract notice and impress others
- parched
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
- perfidious
tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
- pragmatic
concerned with practical matters
- precocious
characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude)
- pretentious
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
- procrastinate
postpone doing what one should be doing
- prosaic
lacking wit or imagination
- prosperity
the condition of prospering; having good fortune
- provocative
serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy
- prudent
careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment
- querulous
habitually complaining
- rancorous
showing deep-seated resentment
- reclusive
withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
- reconciliation
the reestablishing of cordial relations
- renovation
the act of improving by renewing and restoring
- restrained
under restraint
- reverence
a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- sagacity
the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- scrutinize
examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
- spontaneous
said or done without having been planned or written in advance
- spurious
plausible but false
- submissive
inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination
- substantiate
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- subtle
difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
- superficial
of, affecting, or being on or near the surface
- superfluous
more than is needed, desired, or required
- surreptitious
marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
- tactful
having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
- tenacious
stubbornly unyielding
- transient
lasting a very short time
- venerable
profoundly honored
- vindicate
show to be right by providing justification or proof
- wary
marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
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