Eric's Vocabulary 1

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Deprecate
Predicate

Back 1

to express disapproval,反对
self-deprecating = 自謙，自貶
We strongly deprecate the use of violence by the strikers.

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Foreshadow

Back 2

預示Represent something that is coming, foretell

The skirmish foreshadow a bigger conflict.

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Reverberate

Back 3

Echo, resound, resonate

The shocking news reverberate around the world.

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Sobriquet

Back 4

nickname

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Palatable
palpable=perceptible
Impalpable=inscrutable=enigmatic

Back 5

Pleasant to the taste, agreeable to the mind. 合味口的. Palate = 味道，興趣

She didnot find my suggestion at all palatable.

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Invoke

Back 6

Call upon the power of God, law, beseech compare evoke
喚起(記憶等);引起
That old movie evoked memories of my childhood.

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Constrain
Restrain

Back 7

Constrain = 驅使，強迫
Restrain = 克制，壓抑 ~. anger
He is constrained by concience to tell only the truth.

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Demean
Demeanor=behavior

Back 8

degrade, belittle, denigrate 贬低

Donot demean yourself to answer him.

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Preternatural

Back 9

unvonventional, offbeat, 不可思議的, uncanny
A worrior of preternatural strength.

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Vicarious

Back 10

done for other

She cannot have child, but she gets vicarious pleasure by looking after her brother's childrend.
The vicarious suffering of Jesus.

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Abominable

Back 11

討厭的, deplorable, disgusting, dreadful, odious, detestable, awful

The food in the hotel is abominable.

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Fiendish

Back 12

disagreeable, wicked, difficult

A fiendish problem.

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Denigrate

Back 13

belittle, derogate, smear, defame, vilify

The critic denigrate our effort.

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Gamut

Back 14

Complete range

He expresses a gamut of facial expressions.

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Interjection

Back 15

act of making sudden remark between other remarks.
感嘆詞 = exclamation

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Cow

Back 16

frighten into submission 威嚇

The people were cowed by the execution of their leader.

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Obsequies

Back 17

Funeral ceremonies

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Legerdemain

Back 18

詭辯
deceitful argument

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Autocracy

Back 19

dictatorship

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Underpin

Back 20

give strength or support

A solid basis of envidence underpin her theory.

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Alma Mater

Back 21

school one went to

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Hedonistic

Back 22

self indulgent 享樂主義的

Hedonistic lifestyle

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Children's Taunt
First Lady Jaunt
Vaunting coalition
Daunting task

Back 23

insult

Vaunt = 吹噓
Vaunting coalition of the willing over alliance

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Fly in the face of

Back 24

go against

This idea fly in the face of our principle of non intervention.

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Bout

Back 25

a peiod of great activities, streak

He had a bout of illness last year.

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Enmity=antipathy=animosity
Empathy

Back 26

deep-rooted hatred，hostility, animosity
敌意

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Acquiescence
Acquiesce

Back 27

默許 agree quietly often unwillingly

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Sparse vs Spare

Back 28

They took his money but spared his life

Richard Branson uses a sparsely decorated house as office

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Grin vs Grind

Back 29

1

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Parsimony

Back 30

frugality

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Straitened

Straighten

Back 31

Poor

In straitened circumstances = poverty

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Orchard
Orchid
Ostrich

Back 32

果园 compare Orchid (兰花) Ostrich

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Scrape through

Back 33

勉强通过

He scraped into Eton only after his worried parents sent him to a crammer.

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Obviate

Back 34

get rid of, 消除，排除

His arrival obviates the need to send someone to fetch him again.

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Dismissive

Back 35

轻视的, showing disregard

Front 36

Valediction

Back 36

告别词 compare epilogue, finale

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Shabby

Back 37

破旧的 compare shoddy, shady=obscure

wearing a shabby overcoat.

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Blithe

Back 38

gay, joyous, euphoric 愉快的,快活的

Blithe enthusiasm

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Arbiter

Back 39

裁判者

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Widget

Back 40

小饰物

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Connotation

Back 41

意函 implication, undertone

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Raffish

Back 42

Disreputable, 声誉不好的

a raffish former politician

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Nascent
Prenatal
Postnatal

Back 43

初生的，new born

The nascent mail order company received some orders.

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Crypt

Back 44

cellar, vault, 地下室

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Scour

Back 45

搜寻

The police scoured London for the thief.

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Shifty

Back 46

untrustworthy

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Scam

Back 47

骗局

Their scam was to ask people for donation for charitable cause.

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Gauche

Back 48

tactless, socially awkward 不善交际的，笨拙的

Gauche behavior

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Coup
Foray

Back 49

Sudden action to obtain desired result 出乎意料的行動

the great coup of Virgin's early year

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Occurrence

Back 50

Event 事情

This was an occurrence that would become tiresomely familiar to everyone

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Tiresomely

Back 51

討厭的,煩人的 odious, loathsome

This was an occurence that would become tiresomely familiar to everyone

Front 52

Elicit 引起
Evoke 喚起
Invoke 喚起，招引

Back 52

引起，引发 compare illicit
The recording elicited an extraordinary reaction
Evoke admiration.
It invoked memories of my childhood.

Front 53

Instigation
Indignation = wrath

Back 53

教唆, incitement

Oldfield arrived at the Manor at Draper's instigation.

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Incidental

Back 54

small and unimportant,偶爾的

With incidental help from others, he finished the job.

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dribble

Back 55

small thin flow, trickle

The continuing dribble of losses from the business.

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Fret

Back 56

苦惱;煩躁;發愁 agonize

Kristen began to fret about her school

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Subsume

Back 57

Include as a member

Her individuality is being subsumed into a set of shared concerns about the business.

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Croquet

Back 58

板球

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Splay

Back 59

Spread

Their long hair splaying oddly from the sides.

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Imbue

Back 60

Fill with 使滲透 instill

Imbue the house with a sense of style befitting a former architecture student

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Came to a head

Back 61

Come to a climax, result in a fight

Matters came to a head when Branson ask Kristen for help.

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Engrossed

Back 62

全神贯注, absorbed

He is engrossed in long negotiation.

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Resound

Back 63

Reverberate

The voice resounded in her ears.

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Epileptic

Back 64

癲癇症的

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Parvenu

Back 65

暴发户

Eton's foundation in the 20's made it a parvenu among public school.

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Drab

Back 66

dull 乏味的

Drab suit.

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Quibble

Back 67

argue about small point 找渣

Who would be ungracious enough to start quibbling about share holding.

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De'scent = lineage
Decent

Back 68

血统，後裔

of Lebanese descent

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Rendition

Back 69

演奏
Audition

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Ocassion

Back 70

be the cause of 引起

The boy's behavior occassioned his parents much anxiety

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Audition

Back 71

(表演者申请职位时的) 试听
Rendition = performance

Front 72

Disparate
Disparity

Back 72

不同的;異類的

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Tepit

Back 73

不熱情的,不熱烈的
a tepid reception
lukewarm praise

Front 74

Rebuff

Back 74

斷然拒絕,回絕;冷落 reject
Rebut=refute
His suggestion was very sharply rebuffed

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Folly

Back 75

ridiculous thing, foolish act, idea etc

The old man felt regret for the follies of his youth.

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Transpire

Back 76

become known,come to light 公开

It transpired that the president had spent the weekend golfing.

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Smack

Back 77

發出..气味,意味的 Savor
It is not premature, however, to say the trip smacks of desperation. Medicine that smacks of sulphur.

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Fray
Foray

Back 78

使(神經等)緊張 become strained

Against this fraying backdrop

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Vaunt
Taunt = insult
Jaunt
Daunt

Back 79

A first term spent riding roughshod over friends and vaunting 吹噓“coalitions of the willing” over alliances has not been righted 糾正(錯誤等)by a second term of diplomacy rehabilitation.

Front 80

Discretion
Discrete = distinct

Back 80

1 being discreet (謹慎的,慎重的) you must show more discretion in choosing your friend. 2 freedom to act using one's judgement

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Brusque

Back 81

粗鲁的 discourteous, rude, rough

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Ex'ponent

Back 82

proponent=倡導者
Exponent = 代表者 He is the supreme exponent of the English humorous essay

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Steep

Back 83

浸泡,陡峭的(steep=precipitous hill)
She steeped the tea in boiling water

Front 84

Crunch

Back 84

艱難局面,危機 The credit crunch following the subprime crysis.

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Doggedly

Back 85

頑強的 Chinese diplomats have worked doggedly since the U.S. award was voted on last year

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Countenance
Provenance

Back 86

贊同;支持 secret Department of Justice memos countenancing torture.

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grotesque provenance

Back 87

grotesque = 奇怪的,怪誕的
provenance = 出处

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Makeshift

Back 88

臨時代用的 our troops were using makeshift vehicle armor fashioned out of sandbags

Front 89

Shoddy

Back 89

劣等的
compare shabby, shady
country’s attention on the shoddy treatment of veterans

Front 90

mercenary

Back 90

雇佣兵, 圖利的;貪財的
His action was prompted by mercenary motives

Front 91

Coax = cajole
Hoax = dupe

Back 91

the White House’s plan to coax=cojole us into a blissful(blithe) ignorance about the war

Front 92

Complicity

Back 92

共谋 But the administration also invited our passive complicity (collusion, conspiracy) by requiring no shared sacrifice.

Front 93

Finesse

Back 93

Skillful handling of a situation, adroit maneuvering駕馭
quietly purchasing its auxiliary army of contractors to finesse the overstretched military’s holes.

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Rife

Back 94

充斥的,fraught. our rampant outsourcing to contractors rife with Bush-Cheney cronies (亲信)

Front 95

Bellwether
wether = 閹過的公羊

Back 95

领导者 vanguard
Contractors remain a bellwether of the war’s progress today

Front 96

Apocalypse
apocalyptic

Back 96

啟示 an Iraq war combat veteran sketched for me the apocalypse to come

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Befall

Back 97

happen to 降临

What has befallen him?

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Palpable

Back 98

可觸知的,顯然的;明白的 patent
Impalpable = inscrutable
A palpable error

Front 99

Ma'lignant

Back 99

sinister邪惡的 blacks were able to progress despite the most malignant forms of racism

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Apathy
Antipathy - strong dislike

Back 100

漠不關心 indifference
What you find is apathy in a lot of the males who don’t even know that they are supposed to be a father

Front 101

Stay

Back 101

延緩

The Supreme Court has granted two stays of execution

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Deft
Adroit

Back 102

Deft = 靈巧的 knit with deft finger. Adept in 熟練的= adept in piano. Apt 敏捷的 = apt student，Adroit = 靈巧的;敏捷的adroit maneuvering

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Quirky
Oddball
Grotesque
Kinky
Ecentric
Perverted

Back 103

怪癖的

Front 104

Prune
Preen

Back 104

trim

Branson needs someone to prune back decision that went wrong

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Languish
Vanquish
Anguish

Back 105

beome languid = 消沈,無精神,謝
Robert Diaz languished on death row at San Quentin State Prison

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Disdain=scorn

Distain=defile

Back 106

Despise, Scorn 藐視

the lawyer who disdained the continuing war in Iraq

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Tenuous

Back 107

薄的，細的

the tenuous spider web

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Anguish
Languish
Vanquish

Back 108

痛苦的

But farm-state stalwarts = staunch(忠實的支持者)rose up in anguished, bipartisan protest and Mr. Harkin backed down

Front 109

Mo'notony
Boredom

Back 109

枯燥，單調 mo'notonous

with hardly a village to break the anxious monotony.

Front 110

Redact

ri'dakt

Back 110

edit

dozens of the report’s passages were redacted,

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Incinerate

Back 111

燒成灰, compare obliterate
Japan — an industrialized country three times Iraq’s size, two of whose cities had been incinerated by atomic bombs

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Cove, Clove, Grove, Alcove
a clove of garlic

Back 112

Cove = 小海灣
Clove = 丁香
Grove = 小樹林

Front 113

Vanquish
Anguish
Languish

Back 113

the declines resulted from problems that their chief executives should have been able to spot a mile away — and that no one believes have been vanquished (征服,擊敗)for good.

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Nimble
nibble

Back 114

A new chief executive who bears no responsibility for a firm’s previous losses is likely to be more nimble (敏捷，迅速)in confronting the mistakes of the past, unencumbered as he or she would be from the human tendency to hide or play down one’s failures.

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salutary
Benefitial

Back 115

有益的

salutary advice/excercise

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infantile

Back 116

幼稚的 childish

infantile thinking

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Predicate
Deprecate

Back 117

基於

The company's plans to increase production were predicated on the growing demand for computer products.

Front 118

risible
'riserble

Back 118

可笑的 entertaining, humorous

Front 119

Preen
prune

Back 119

(鳥)梳整羽毛，(人)自滿
We need a reality check, we need to wake up, stop preening and get down to work.

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Titbit

Back 120

珍聞,有趣的消息

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Boil over

Back 121

沸騰

Ethnic tensions threaten to boil over in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia

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Penchant
Trenchant = caustic

Back 122

喜好，傾向 inclination, bent
Ms. Hughes, a former television reporter and media adviser with a penchant for fast-talking

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Disenchanted

Back 123

不存幻想 Disillusion
But even within the State Department, some career Foreign Service officials have become disenchanted with the task of trying to sell America’s image abroad.

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Braise
Stew

Back 124

燉熟

he braised short ribs on the “Today” show set earlier this month

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Nauseating
'nosieit

Back 125

cause nausea 作嘔，噁心

nauseating food, sight

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Missive

Back 126

correspondence 書信

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Emblematic

Back 127

National Emblem=國徽,symbolic
There is thus an emblematic force to Obama’s candidacy

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Introspective

Back 128

Obama offered a vivid and strikingly introspective 内省的 account of his knockabout 遊蕩的 childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia

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Husband

Back 129

節約地使用, conserve

He seems to have a gift for husbanding his energy

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Propound

Back 130

Compare expound 解釋

Bush’s post-9/11 recognition that our own security depends on the well-being of people on the other side of the globe led him to propound 提議the so-called Freedom Agenda

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Nimble
Unencumbered

Back 131

A new chief executive who bears no responsibility for a firm’s previous losses is likely to be more nimble (敏捷，迅速)in confronting the mistakes of the past, unencumbered 不受妨礙的 from the human tendency to hide or play down one’s failures.

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Magnanimous

Back 132

Tolerant, benevolant
It was an infuriating show of ingratitude, as the French saw it, coming from a fledgling nation they had magnanimously (寬宏的，大量的)saved from foreign occupation in a previous war.

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Flounder

Back 133

掙扎 We floundered through deep snow to get to the store.

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Beaut
Beau

Back 134

美好的東西
That new sports car is a beaut.

Front 135

Tout

Back 135

兜售 hawk brazenly

The New York senator had touted her own know-how, saying that “there is one job we can’t afford on-the-job training for — that’s the job of our next president.”

Front 136

Trenchant
Penchant

Back 136

(言辭等)銳利的 caustic
he finally found the perfect pitch to make a trenchant point

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Bent
Dent
Bend

Back 137

Bent=penchant
make a dent=有影響
She was a top adviser who had a Nixonian bent for secrecy and a knack for hard-core politicking

Front 138

Brazen 無恥的
'breizn
Blatant 露骨的

Back 138

shameless,無恥的 She brazenly borrowed Republican talking points

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Nibble
Nimble

Back 139

咬一口的量;少量a rapidly growing problem that does not lend itself to temporary fixes or small nibbles

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Serenity
Surreal = 不真實的，超現實的

Back 140

平靜 nothing could disturb his serenity

She was always calm and serene(sober)