SAT巴朗3500词汇表之第74篇(附pdf下载)
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delirium N. /精神错乱/mental disorder marked by confusion. In his delirium, the drunkard saw pink panthers and talking pigs. Perhaps he wasn't delirious: he might just have wandered into a movie.
delude V. /盅惑/deceive. His mistress may have deluded herself into believing that he would leave his wife and marry her.
deluge N. /冲(水)(刺)/flood; rush. When we advertised the position, we received a deluge of applications.
delusion N. /错觉/false belief; hallucination. Don suffers from delusions of grandeur: he thinks he's a world-famous author when he's published just one paperback book.
delve V. /挖掘;调查/dig; investigate. Delving into old books and manuscripts is part of a researcher's job.
demagogue N. /煽动政治家/person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people. He was accused of being a demagogue because he made promises that aroused futile hopes in his listeners.
demean V. /降级;贬低/degrade; humiliate. Standing on his dignity, he refused to demean himself by replying to the offensive letter. If you truly believed in the dignity of labor, you would not think it would demean you to work as a janitor.
demeanor N. /风度;行为/behavior; bearing. His sober demeanor quieted the noisy revelers.
demented ADJ. /疯狂的/insane. Doctor Demento was a lunatic radio personality who liked to act as if he were truly demented. If you're demented, your mental state is out of whack; in other words, you're wacky.
demise N. /死/death. Upon the demise of the dictator, a bitter dispute about succession to power developed.
demolition N. /拆除/destruction. One of the major aims of the air force was the complete demolition of all means of transportation by bombing of rail lines and terminals. demolish,V.
demoniac ADJ. /魔鬼的/fiendish. The Spanish Inquisition devised many demoniac means of torture. demon, N.
demur V. /反对;犹豫/object (because of doubts, scruples); hesitate. When offered a post on the board of directors, David demurred: he had scruples about taking on the job because he was unsure he could handle it in addition to his other responsibilities.
demure ADJ. /端庄的;认真的;腼腆的/grave; serious; coy. She was demure and reserved, a nice modest girl whom any young man would be proud to take home to his mother.
demystify V. /澄清;揭秘/clarify; free from mystery or obscurity. Helpful doctors demystify medical procedures by describing them in everyday language, explaining that a myringotomy, for example, is an operation involving making a small hole in one's eardrum.
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