SAT巴朗3500词汇表之第192 篇(附pdf下载)

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potentate N. /当权者/monarch; sovereign. The potentate spent more time at Monte Carlo than he did at home on his throne.

potential ADJ. /潜在的/expressing possibility; latent. This juvenile delinquent is a potential murderer. also N.

potion N. /剂量/dose (of liquid). Tristan and Isolde drink a love potion in the first act of the opera.

practicable ADJ. /可行的/feasible. The board of directors decided that the plan was practicable and agreed to undertake the project.

practical ADJ. /有用的;经验的;实践证明的/based on experience; useful. He was a practical man, opposed to theory.

practitioner N. /从业者/someone engaged in a profession (law, medicine). In need of a hip replacement, Carl sought a practitioner with considerable experience performing this particular surgery.

pragmatic ADJ. /实际的;注重实效的/practical (as opposed to idealistic); concerned with the practical worth or impact of something. This coming trip to France should provide me with a pragmatic test of the value of my conversational French class.

pragmatist N. /爱管闲事的人;实用主义者/practical person. No pragmatist enjoys becoming involved in a game he can never win.

prank N. /胡闹;打扮/mischievous trick. Is tipping over garbage cans on Halloween merely a childish prank, or is it vandalism?

prate V. /空谈/speak foolishly; boast idly. Let us not prate about our good qualities; rather, let our virtues speak for themselves.

prattle V. /闲聊;胡说;废话;唠叨/babble. Baby John prattled on and on about the cats and his ball and the Cookie Monster.

preamble N. /导言;介绍词/introductory statement. In the Preamble to the Constitution, the purpose of the document is set forth.

precarious ADJ. /不确定的;冒风险/uncertain; risky. Saying the stock would be a precarious investment, the broker advised her client against purchasing it.

precedent N. /先例/something preceding in time that may be used as an authority or guide for future action. If I buy you a car for your sixteenth birthday, your brothers will want me to buy them cars when they turn sixteen, too; I can't afford to set such an expensive precedent. The law professor asked Jill to state which famous case served as a precedent for the court's decision in Brown ll.

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