voracious ADJ. /貪婪的；狼吞虎咽的/ravenous. The wolf is a voracious animal, its hunger never satisfied.

　　SAM: vor=吃 ous 表示多,吃了很多就是貪婪的。

　　warrant V. /授權(quán)；證明；批準(zhǔn)/justify; authorize. Before the judge issues the injunction, you must convince her this action is warranted.

　　SAM：打仗war 需要螞蟻ant來(lái)授權(quán)，擔(dān)保，批準(zhǔn)。下面是名詞。

　　warranty N. /擔(dān)保；保證/guarantee; assurance by seller. The pur­chaser of this automobile is protected by the manufac­turer's warranty that the company will replace any defective part for five years or 50,000 miles.

　　wary ADJ. /機(jī)警的；小心的/very cautious. The spies grew wary as they approached the sentry.

　　SAM：打仗war需要特別的機(jī)警的，小心的。

　　wastrel N. /廢物；飯桶；放蕩的人/profligate. His neighbors denounced him as a wastrelwho had dissipated his inheritance.

　　SAM：這個(gè)詞來(lái)自于waster,然后你就覺得簡(jiǎn)單了啊呵呵:-)。

　　watershed N. /分水嶺/crucial dividing point. The invention of the personal computer proved a historic watershed, for it opened the way to today's Information Age.

　　wax V. /增長(zhǎng)/increase; grow. With proper handling, his fortunes waxed and he became rich.

　　SAM：mars---war, 所以 這個(gè)單詞也是由max表示大造成的---wax wa也可以拼音成蛙，青蛙增長(zhǎng)了。

　　waylay V. /埋伏；伏擊；搶劫/ambush; lie in wait. They agreed to waylay their victim as he passed through the dark alley going home.

　　SAM：lay躺在路上way是埋伏，搶劫.

　　wean V. /斷奶；丟棄/accustom a baby to not nurse; give up a cher­ished activity. He decided he would wean himself away from eating junk food and stick to fruits and vegetables.

　　SAM:我們都有一個(gè)斷奶的時(shí)期= we + an 。

　　weather V. /侵蝕；風(fēng)化/endure the effects of weather or other forces. He weathered the changes in his personal life with difficulty, as he had no one in whom to confide.

　　wince V. /退縮/shrink back; flinch. The screech of the chalk on the blackboard made her wince.

　　SAM：贏得了win勝利，敵人的車ce就退縮了.

　　balmy ADJ. /柔和的；芳香的/mild; fragrant. A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.

　　SAM:ba爸爸給了我1個(gè)柔和的，芳香的球。=ba+l+my

　　banal ADJ. /平凡，陳腐，老生常談/hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking origi­nality. The hack writer's worn-out clich6s made his comic sketch seem banal. He even resorted to the banality of hav­ing someone slip on a banana peel!

　　SAM:=ba + na + l 爸爸和娜娜都談了一個(gè)老生常談的問題。

　　ruffian N. /流氓；惡棍；痞子/bully; scoundrel. The ruffians threw stones at the police.

　　SAM：=rude + ff + ian 粗魯?shù)尼翎鬴f是一個(gè)an 流氓，惡棍。

　　ruminate V. /反復(fù)咀嚼；消化；深思；反芻/chew over and over (mentally, or, like cows, physically); mull over; ponder. Unable to digest quickly the baffling events of the day, Reuben ruminated about them till four in the morning.

　　SAM：= run + in + ate rum= run 跑到里面去反復(fù)吃ate,就是反復(fù)咀嚼，深思。

　　rummage V. /到處翻尋/ransack; thoroughly search. When we rum­maged through the trunks in the attic, we found many sou­venirs of our childhood days. also N.

　　SAM： = run + mm + age 跑run過去到處翻尋妹妹MM.

　　ruse N. /技巧；策略，計(jì)謀/trick; stratagem. You will not be able to fool your friends with such an obvious ruse.

　　SAM:拒絕refuse別人要講究技巧，策略. refuse --- ruse

　　sedition N. /抵抗當(dāng)局；反抗；暴動(dòng)/resistance to authority; insubordination. His words, though not treasonous in themselves, were calcu­lated to arouse thoughts of sedition.

　　SAM: sed=sit 靜坐也是抵抗當(dāng)局，反抗。

　　sedulous ADJ. /勤奮的；勤勤懇懇的/diligent; hardworking. After weeks of patient and sedulous labor, we completed our detailed analysis of every published SAT examination.

　　SAM： sed=sit ous = 多，過多坐在那里的同學(xué)是勤奮的，勤勤懇懇的。