SSAT 考生应该掌握词汇的基本知识.docVIP

考生应该掌握词汇的基本知识 1.?后缀 后缀可以告诉我们单词的词性。 举例：以下SSAT都包含基本的后缀。 -ness?????? happiness, friendliness -able???????perishable, amiable -ous??????? androgynous, fibrous -ity???????? animosity, charity -ology???? psychology, sociology -ical??????? tyrannical, hypothetical -archy???? monarchy, anarchy, matriarchy -less??????? fearless, artless 2. 前缀和词根 前缀在单词的开头，词根可以在单词的任何位置。这两种单词的部分都对记忆单词有很大帮助。比如，考生遇见vociferous，可以思考其中voc这个词根，尽量想出同样含有voc的其它单词。我们知道vocal和说话有关系，自然可以推断出vociferous同样和说话有关系。如果能想象vociferous表示喊叫，那么剩下的意思也可以记住：说话大声并且不连续的。 注意voc在vociferous和vocal中的发音不同。词根经常会改变发音，很多词根已经出现几百年了。随着时间的推移，不光发音会变化，含义也会变化，所以现在的单词含义已经不是简单的词根累加了。所以词根学习不能取代查字典，只能帮助记忆新词汇并且对词汇进行分组。 例如以下7个单词： 单词之间的连线表示相同的部分。可见，区区七个单词就能够产生如此之多的交叉连线，组成了一个网络。 考生应该掌握的SSAT后缀，前缀和词根 后缀 X-able?????????? adjective? “able to be Xed” X-archy????????? noun?????? ”rulership by X” X-ical????????????adjective? “characterized by X” X-less????????????adjective? “without X” X-ness???????????noun?????? ”quality of being X” X-ology??????????noun????? ? “doctrine or theory of X” X-ous??????????? adjective? “having the quality of X” 前缀和词根 a?????????????????? without ab/ abs??????????? away from, against ac/ acr??????????? sharp ad/ at???????????? to, toward am???????????????? to love amb????????????? ? to go, to walk anim?????? ??????? life, spirit ante?????????? ??? before anthr/ andr??????? mankind, man anti??????????????? against, opposite apt/ ept?????????? skill, ability, fit bell??????????????? war bene?????????????? good bi??????????????????two carn???????????????????flesh chron??????????????????time circ/ circum?????????? around cis????????????????????to cut cli?????????????????????to lean clu/ clo/ cla???????????to close, shut co/ com/ con???????? with, together cred???????????????????believe culp????????????????????blame cur/ cour??????????????to run de??????? ? away from/ the opposite of dem????????????????????people derm???????????????????skin di?????????????????apart, through, away dic????????????????to say, to tell