单词掌握对于考生来说是很重要的，所以考生要掌握每个单词的词性，下面是北外SAT给考生整理的几个词汇，下面是详细内容，希望可以帮助到考生。

1.Compose(组成) composition(组成，作文) composer(作曲家)

Compose―― composed(镇定的)――composure(镇定)

Composed：serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress

(1)The usually__ CEO shocked his employees by severely overeating to the jocular tease made by one of his subordinates.

(A) demanding

(B) inarticulate

(C) aggressive

(D) persuasive

(E) composed

(2)Not one to be easily intimidated, the corporal remained ----- while the opposing army presses toward his troop’s position.

A. commanding

B. composed

C. aggressive

D. communicative

(3)After Bob had broken the punch bowl, we sensed the extent of his ----from the way he shamefacedly avoided meeting his hostess’s eye.

(A) composure (B) perspicacity

(C) discomfiture (D) forbearance

(E) benevolence

2.affect(影响)―― affected(做作的)――disaffected(不满的)

3.person(个人)――personal(个人的)――impersonal(不受个人感情影响的)

I hate dealing with large impersonal companies. 我讨厌与那些没有人情味的大公司打交道。

4.test(测试)――testy(易怒的，暴躁的)――-testing(吃力的)

5.demand――demanding(要求多且苛刻的)

demanding: requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

When training for a marathon, runners prepare themselves for a challenge that is both__ and mentally__.

(A) illusory, taxing

(B) exaggerated, balanced

(C) physically, demanding

(D) appealing, indulgent

(E) strenuous, dubious

6.exhaust(耗尽)――exhaustive(无遗漏的,彻底的,详尽的)

exhaustive：very thorough; exhaustively complete

MacDougall’s former editors remember him as a____ man whose_____ and exhaustivereporting was worth the trouble.

(A) domineering, wearisome (B) congenial, pretentious (C) popular, supercilious

(D) fastidious, wearisome (E) cantankerous, meticulous

7.fortitude 刚毅, fortuitous 偶然的,意外的

(1)No real-life hero of ancient or modern days can surpass James Bond with his nonchalant__ of death and the___ with which he bear torture.

(A) contempt, distress

(B) disregard, fortitude

(C) veneration, guile

(D) concept, terror

(E) ignorance, fickleness

(2)Although he had spent many hours at the computer trying to solve the problem, he was the first to admit that the final solution was___ and not the ___ of his labor

(A) trivial----cause

(B) incomplete----intent

(C) adequate------concern

(D) schematic-----fault

(E) fortuitous----result

8.Category(分类) ――categorical(绝对的)

9.consequence(结果)――consequential(重要的)

(1)The guide’s directions seemed _______ to me; in fact, I ended up where I began.

misleading

inconsequential

circuitous

linear

(2)She was injured and suffered a consequential loss of earnings.

10.Compel(强迫)――compelling(引人注目的)

In the nineteenth century, novelists and unsympathetic travelers portrayed the American West as a land of---- adversity, whereas promoters and idealists created ---- image of a land of infinite promise.

(A) lurid.. a mundane

(B) incredible.. an underplayed

(C) dispiriting.. an identical

(D) intriguing.. a luxuriant

(E) unremitting.. a compelling

unremitting：uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing 不间断的

unremitting adversity<>compelling promise

11.remit(减弱，缓和)――unremitting (不间断的)

12.try(尝试)――trying(费劲的，令人厌烦的)=harsh