《3500 WORDS SAT巴朗词表》Word List 41!《3500 WORDS
SAT巴朗词表》中收录了很多高频核心词汇，下面
Word List 41 resentment-sacrosanct
resentment N. /怨恨;愤恨/indignation; bitterness; displeasure. Not wanting to appear a sore loser, Bill tried to hide his resentment of Barry's success.
reserve N. /自我控制;疏远/self-control; formal but distant manner. Although some girls were attracted by Mark's air of reserve, Judy was put off by it, for she felt his aloofness indicated a lack of openness. reserved,ADJ.
residue N. /残留物;余额/remainder; balance. In his will, he requested that after payment of debts, taxes, and funeral expenses, the residue be given to his wife. residual,ADJ.
resigned ADJ. /认命，顺从;听天由命/accepting one's fate; unresisting; patiently submissive. Resigned to his downtrodden existence, Bob Cratchit was too meek to protest Scrooge's bullying. resignation, N.
resilient ADJ. /弹性的/elastic; having the power of springing back. Highly resilient, steel makes excellent bedsprings. resilience, N.
resolution N. /坚定;决心;决定/determination; resolve. Nothing could shake his resolution that his children would get the best education that money could buy. resolute,ADJ.
resolve N. /决心;解决/determination; firmness of purpose. How dare you question my resolve to take up sky-diving! Of course I haven't changed my mind!
resolve V. /决定;安排/decide; settle; solve. Holmes resolved to travel to Bohemia to resolve the dispute between Irene Adler and the king.
resonant ADJ. /共鸣的/echoing; resounding; deep and full in sound. The deep, resonant voice of the actor James Earl Jones makes him particularly effective when he appears on stage.
respiration N. /呼吸;呼吸作用;呼气/breathing; exhalation. The doctor found that the patient's years of smoking had adversely affected both his lung capacity and his rate of respiration.
respite N. /暂缓/interval of relief; time for rest; delay in punishment. After working nonstop on this project for three straight months. I need a respite! For David, the two weeks vacationing in New Zealand were a delightful respite from the pressures of his job.
resplendent ADJ. /辉煌的;光辉的/dazzling; glorious; brilliant. While all the adults were commenting how glorious the emperor looked in his resplendent new clothes, one little boy was heard to say, "But he's naked!"
responsiveness N. /响应的/state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc. The audience cheered and applauded, delighting the performers by its responsiveness.
restitution N. /归还;补偿/reparation; indemnification. He offered to make restitution for the window broken by his son.
restive ADJ. /焦躁不安的;难以压抑的/restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting control. Waiting impatiently in line to see Santa Claus, even the best-behaved children grow restive and start to fidget.
restraint N. /抑制;控制/moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction. Control yourself. young lady! Show some restraint!
resumption N. /恢复;重新开始/taking up again; recommencement. During summer break, Don had not realized how much he missed university life: at the resumption of classes, however, he felt marked excitement and pleasure. resume,V.
resurge V. /复活/rise again; flow to and fro. It was startling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disintegrated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups. resurgence, N.
retain V. /保持;使用/keep; employ. Fighting to retain his seat in Congress, Senator Foghorn retained a new manager to head his reelection campaign.
retaliation N. /报仇/repayment in kind (usually for bad treatment). Because everyone knew the Princeton Band had stolen Brown's mascot, the whole Princeton student body expected some sort of retaliation from Brown. retaliate,V.
retentive ADJ. /保持的;记性好的/holding; having a good memory. The pupil did not need to spend much time studying, for he had a retentive mind and remembered all he read.
reticence N. /不动声色的;深藏不露的;沉默寡言的/reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to silence. Fearing his competitors might get advance word about his plans from talkative staff members, Hughes preferred reticence from his employees to loquacity. reticent,ADJ.
retinue N. /随行人员;扈从/following; attendants. The queen's retinue followed her down the aisle.
retiring ADJ. /退休的;谦虚的，害羞的/modest; shy. Given Susan's retiring personality, no one expected her to take up public speaking; surprisingly enough, she became a star of the school debate team,
retort N. /反驳;曲颈甑/quick sharp reply. Even when it was advisable for her to keep her mouth shut, she was always ready with a quick retort. alsoV.
retract V. /撤回，撤退/withdraw; take back. When I saw how Fred and his fraternity brothers had trashed the frat house, I decided to retract my offer to let them use our summer cottage for the weekend. retraction, N.
retrench V. /裁减，削减;紧缩，节约/cut down; economize. In order to be able to afford to send their children to college, they would have to retrench. retrenchment, N.
retribution N. /复仇;补偿;惩罚/vengeance; compensation; punishment for offenses. The evangelist maintained that an angry deity would exact retribution from the sinners.
retrieve V. /重新得到;找回/recover; find and bring in. The dog was intelligent and quickly learned to retrieve the game killed by the hunter.
retroactive ADJ. ;(法律)追溯的(由制定之日前的某一天生效)/of a law that dates back to a period before its enactment. Because the law was retroactive to the first of the year, we found she was eligible for the pension.
retrograde V. /倒退的/go backwards; degenerate. instead of advancing, our civilization seems to have retrograded in ethics and culture. alsoADJ.
retrospective ADJ. /回顾的/looking back on the past. The Museum of Graphic Arts is holding a retrospective showing of the paintings of Michael Whelan over the past two decades.
revelry N. /狂欢/boisterous merrymaking. New Year's Eve is a night of revelry
reverent ADJ. /尊敬的;可敬的/respectful; worshipful. Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don't feel properly reverent. revere,V.
reverie N. /冥想;发呆;白日梦/daydream; musing. He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher's question.
revert V. /回复;故态复萌/relapse; backslide; turn back to. Most of the time Andy seemed sensitive and mature, but occasionally he would revert to his smart-alecky, macho, adolescent self.
revile V. /辱骂，谩骂，诽谤/attack with abusive language; vilify. Though most of his contemporaries reviled Captain Kidd as a notorious, bloody-handed pirate, some of his fellow merchant-captains believed him innocent of his alleged crimes.
revoke V. /撤回;取消/cancel; retract. Repeat offenders who continue to drive under the influence of alcohol face having their driver's licenses permanently revoked.
revulsion N. /剧变(情感的);抽回;收手/sudden violent change of feeling; reaction. Many people in this country who admired dictatorships underwent a revulsion when they realized what Hitler and Mussolini were trying to do.
rhapsodize V. /狂热地描述;写狂想文，作狂想曲/to speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner. She greatly enjoyed her Hawaiian vacation and rhapsodized about it for weeks.
rhetoric N. /说话的学问;花言巧语/art of effective communication; insincere language. All writers, by necessity, must be skilled in rhetoric.
rhetorical ADJ. /修辞色彩的;花言巧语的/pertaining to effective communication; insincere in language. To win his audience; the speaker used every rhetorical trick in the book.
ribald ADJ. /下流的;放荡的;亵渎的/wanton; profane. He sang a ribald song that offended many of the more prudish listeners.
riddle V. /刺出无数窟窿，打排孔;充斥，弥漫;通过粗眼筛子过滤;谜语;解决，解释;提出，解谜/pierce with holes; permeate or spread throughout. With his machine gun, Tracy riddled the car with bullets till it looked like a slice of Swiss cheese. During the proofreaders' strike, the newspaper was riddled with typos.
rider N. /附文;扶手/amendment or clause added to a legislative bill. Senator Foghorn said he would support Senator Filibuster's tax reform bill only if Filibuster agreed to add an antipollution riderto the bill.
rife ADJ. /普遍的/abundant; current. In the face of the many rumors of scandal, which are rife at the moment, it is best to remain silent.
rift N. /裂缝;破口/opening; break. The plane was lost in the stormy sky until the pilot saw the city through a rift in the clouds.
rig V. /配备;装备/fix or manipulate. The ward boss was able to rig the election by bribing people to stuff the ballot boxes with ballots marked in his candidate's favor.
rigid ADJ. /刚硬的;不屈的/stiff and unyielding; strict; hard and unbending. By living with a man to whom she was not married, George Eliot broke Victorian society's most rigid rule of respectable behavior.
rigor N. /严格，苛刻;精确/severity. Many settlers could not stand the rigors of the New England winters.
rigorous ADJ. /严峻的;严格的;严厉的/severe; harsh; demanding; exact. Disliked by his superiors, the officer candidate in An Officer and a Gentleman endured an extremely rigorous training program.
rile V. /激怒/vex; irritate; muddy. Red had a hair-trigger temper: he was an easy man to rile.
riveting ADJ. /迷人的/absorbing; engrossing. The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.
rivulet N. /小溪/small stream. As the rains continued, the small trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that threatened to wash away a portion of the slope.
robust ADJ. /健壮的/vigorous; strong. After pumping iron and taking karate for six months, the little old lady was so robust that she could break a plank with her fist.
roil V. /搅动(使水变浑);激怒/to make liquids murky by stirring up sediment. Be careful when you pour not to roil the wine; if you stir up the sediment you'll destroy the flavor.
roster N. /列表/list. They print the roster of players in the season's program.
rostrum N. /演讲台;讲道坛/platform for speech-making; pulpit. The crowd murmured angrily and indicated that they did not care to listen to the speaker who was approaching the rostrum.
rote N. /生搬硬套;死记硬背/repetition. He recited the passage by rote and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.
rotundity N. /圆形，球状;洪亮的演讲/roundness; sonorousness of speech. Washington Irving emphasized the rotundity of the governor by describing his height and circumference.
rousing ADJ. /活跃的;煽动的/lively; stirring. "And now, let's have a rousing welcome for TV's own Roseanne Barr, who'll lead us in a rousing rendition of 'The Star-Spangled Banner."'
rout V. /吓跑;赶出;击退/stampede; drive out. The reinforcements were able to rout the enemy. also N.
rubble N. /碎片/broken fragments. Ten years after World War II, some of the rubble left by enemy bombings could still be seen.
ruddy ADJ. /红的;红润的，白里透红的;健康的/reddish; healthy-looking. Santa Claus's ruddy cheeks nicely complement Rudolph the Reindeer's bright red nose.
rudimentary ADJ. /原始的;最初的;原来的/not developed; elementary; crude. Although my grandmother's English vocabulary was limited to a few rudimentary phrases, she always could make herself understood.
rue V. /懊悔;后悔;感伤/regret; lament; mourn. Tina rued the night she met Tony and wondered how she ever fell for such a jerk. rueful,ADJ.
ruffian N. /流氓;恶棍;痞子/bully; scoundrel. The ruffians threw stones at the police.
ruminate V. /反复咀嚼;消化;深思;反刍/chew over and over (mentally, or, like cows, physically); mull over; ponder. Unable to digest quickly the baffling events of the day, Reuben ruminated about them till four in the morning.
rummage V. /到处翻寻/ransack; thoroughly search. When we rummaged through the trunks in the attic, we found many souvenirs of our childhood days. also N.
ruse N. /技巧;策略，计谋/trick; stratagem. You will not be able to fool your friends with such an obvious ruse.
rustic ADJ. /乡村的;笨拙的，不舒服的/pertaining to country people; uncouth. The backwoodsman looked out of place in his rustic attire.
ruthless ADJ. /无情的/pitiless; cruel. Captain Hook was a dangerous, ruthless villain who would stop at nothing to destroy Peter Pan.
saboteur N. /破坏分子;怠工者/one who commits sabotage; destroyer of property. Members of the Resistance acted as saboteurs, blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army.
saccharine ADJ. /糖精的;代糖的;极甜的/cloyingly sweet. She tried to ingratiate herself, speaking sweetly and smiling a saccharine smile.
sacrilegious ADJ. /亵渎的，天谴的/desecrating; profane. His stealing of the altar cloth was a very sacrilegious act.
sacrosanct ADJ. /非常神圣的/most sacred; inviolable. The brash insurance salesman invaded the sacrosanct privacy of the office of the president of the company.