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