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SAT 考试高频词汇总结之 T 字头
SAT 考试高频词汇总结之 T 字头。下面为大家总结了 SAT 考试高频词汇,,主要以 T 开头的单词,供同学
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SAT 高频词汇表-T
SAT 词汇之 T 字母开头的高频词汇如下:
tacit (adj.) expressed without words (I interpreted my parents’ refusal to talk as a tacit
acceptance of my request.)
taciturn (adj.) not inclined to talk (Though Jane never seems to stop talking, her brother
is quite taciturn.)
tangential (adj.) incidental, peripheral, divergent (I tried to discuss my salary, but the
boss kept veering off into tangential topics.)
tantamount (adj.) equivalent in value or significance (When it comes to sports, fearing
your opponent is tantamount to losing.)
tedious (adj.) dull, boring (As time passed and the history professor continued to drone
on and on, the lecture became increasingly tedious.)
temerity (n.) audacity, recklessness (Tom and Huck entered the scary cave armed with nothing
but their own temerity.)
temperance (n.) moderation in action or thought (Maintaining temperance will ensure that
you are able to think rationally and objectively.)
tenable (adj.) able to be defended or maintained (The department heads tore down the arguments
in other people’s theses, but Johari’s work proved to be quite tenable.)
tenuous (adj.) having little substance or strength (Your argument is very tenuous, since
it relies so much on speculation and hearsay.)
terrestrial (adj.) relating to the land (Elephants are terrestrial animals.)
timorous (adj.) timid, fearful (When dealing with the unknown, timorous Tallulah almost
always broke into tears.)
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tirade (n.) a long speech marked by harsh or biting language (Every time Jessica was late,
her boyfriend went into a long tirade about punctuality.)
toady (n.) one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors (The other kids referred to the
teacher’s pet as the Tenth Grade Toady.)
tome (n.) a large book (In college, I used to carry around an anatomy book that was the
heaviest tome in my bag.)
torpid (adj.) lethargic, dormant, lacking motion (The torpid whale floated, wallowing in
the water for hours.)
torrid (adj.) giving off intense heat, passionate (I didn’t want to witness the neighbor’
s torrid affair through the window.)
tortuous (adj.) winding (The scary thing about driving in mountains are the narrow,tortuous
roads.)
tractable (adj.) easily controlled (The horse was so tractable, Myra didn’t even need a
bridle.)
tranquil (adj.) calm (There is a time of night when nothing moves and everything is tranquil.)
transgress (v.) to violate, go over a limit (The criminal’s actions transgressed morality
and human decency.)
transient (adj.) passing through briefly; passing into and out of existence (Because virtually
everyone in Palm Beach is a tourist, the population of the town is quite transient.)
transmute (v.) to change or alter in form (Ancient alchemists believed that it was possible
to transmute lead into gold.)
travesty (n.) a grossly inferior imitation (According to the school newspaper’s merciless
theater critic, Pacific Coast High’s rendition of the musical Oklahoma was a travesty of the
original.)
tremulous (adj.) fearful (I always feel a trifle tremulous when walking through a graveyard.)
trenchant (adj.) effective, articulate, clear-cut (The directions that accompanied my new
cell phone were trenchant and easy to follow.)
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trepidation (n.) fear, apprehension (Feeling great trepidation, Anya refused to jump into
the pool because she thought she saw a shark in it.)
trite (adj.) not original, overused (Keith thought of himself as being very learned, but
everyone else thought he was trite because his observations about the world were always the
same as David Letterman’s.)
truculent (adj.) ready to fight, cruel (This club doesn’t really attract the dangerous
types, so why was that bouncer being so truculent?)
truncate (v.) to shorten by cutting off (After winning the derby, the jockey truncated the
long speech he had planned and thanked only his mom and his horse.)
turgid (adj.) swollen, excessively embellished in style or language (The haughty writer
did not realize how we all really felt about his turgid prose.)
turpitude (n.) depravity, moral corruption (Sir Marcus’s chivalry often contrasted with
the turpitude he exhibited with the ladies at the tavern.)
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