SAT巴朗3500词汇表之第194 篇(附pdf下载)
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predicament N. /困境;危险的境地;两难/tricky or dangerous situation; dilemma. Tied to the railroad tracks by the villain, Pauline strained against her bonds. How would she escape from this terrible predicament?
predilection N. /偏爱;偏好/partiality; preference. Although I have written all sorts of poetry over the years, I have a definite predilection for occasional verse.
predispose V. /预先安排,使其偏向于/give an inclination toward; make susceptible to. Oleg's love of dressing up his big sister's Barbie doll may have predisposed him to become a fashion designer. Genetic influences apparently predispose people to certain forms of cancer.
preeminent ADJ. /出色的;出类拔萃的/outstanding; superior. The king traveled to Boston because he wanted the preeminent surgeon in the field to perform the operation.
preempt V. /排挤,代替;阻止;抢占;先发制人/head off; forestall by acting first; appropriate for oneself; supplant. Hoping to preempt any attempts by the opposition to make educational reform a hot political issue, the candidate set out her own plan to revitalize the public schools. preemptive,ADJ.
preen V. /把自己打扮漂亮;自我满足;鸟类用嘴梳理羽毛/make oneself tidy in appearance; feel self-satis-faction. As Kitty preened before the mirror, carefully smoothing her shining hair, she couldn't help preening over how pretty she looked.
prehensile ADJ. /可以得到的;可以抓住的/capable of grasping or holding. Monkeys use not only their arms and legs but also their prehensile tails in traveling through the trees.
prelate N. /教士/church dignitary. The archbishop of Moscow and other high-ranking prelates visited the Russian Orthodox seminary.
prelude N. /序;先驱;先导/introduction; forerunner. I am afraid that this border raid is the prelude to more serious attacks.
premeditate V. /预谋,预先考虑/plan in advance. She had premeditated the murder for months, reading about common poisons and buying weed killer that contained arsenic.
premise N. /假定,假设;前提/assumption; postulate. Based on the premise that there's no fool like an old fool, P. T. Barnum hired a ninety-year-old clown for his circus.
premonition N. /前兆/forewarning. We ignored these premonitions of disaster because they appeared to be based on childish fears.
preposterous ADJ. /荒唐的/absurd; ridiculous. When he tried to downplay his youthful experiments with marijuana by saying he hadn't inhaled, we all thought, "What a preposterous excuse!"
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