从五个单词来看SAT考试对词汇的要求(三)

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㏎: 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”。

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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